2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks and tanks).In the final tally, America sent its Russian ally the following military equipment:Ī Soviet night bomber crew with a U.S.-made Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber during World War II (© Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Weeks in his 2004 book Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II. The scope of the aid is detailed by Russia Beyond, an online publication of Russia’s state newspaper ( Rossiyskaya Gazeta), and also by many historians, including U.S. (© Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)Īfter Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, America sent the first convoys with goods to the Soviet Union by August.
Equipping the Red Army Soviet troops position anti-tank guns in northern Caucasus in September 1942 as American-made trucks, sent to them as part of the lend-lease program, follow. Some wartime debts were later settled at a greatly reduced rate, but Lend-Lease was mostly a grant by the United States, the nation Roosevelt called the “arsenal of democracy” to its partners against Nazism and fascism. did not seek or expect much in the way of monetary repayment. In other words, if you lend certain munitions, and munitions come back after the war, you are all right.” Now, what do I do? I don’t say to him before that operation, ‘Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15 you have got to pay me $15 for it.’ I don’t want $15 - I want my garden hose back. … If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant I may help him to put out his fire. “Suppose my neighbor’s home catches fire. As Roosevelt told cost-conscious Americans: Red Army soldiers, with a U.S.-made tank on the left, stand on Lenin Street in Belgorod, Russia, in February 1943. and the USSR disagreed in other areas, the threat Hitler posed to the world brought them to a common objective. entered the war, Washington dispatched war supplies to Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union. Under the Lend-Lease Act, enacted nine months before the U.S.
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