Trucks Studebaker in the transport reserve command of the Red Army.
Already by the end of 1941, Chrysler launched a huge defense factory for the production of armored vehicles, the Detroit Tank Arsenal, and reached full capacity Fischer Tank Arsenal. By an ineradicable American habit, they built two giants, 'just in case.'
These factories soon filled the army warehouses and storage areas with light and medium tanks, automatic control systems and specialized armored vehicles.
The Americans have clearly overdone, releasing over the period of 1941-1945 more than 200 thousand units of armored vehicles. This is even more than the tank factories of the Soviet Union and the Third Reich combined.
The transfer of frigates from the US Navy to Soviet sailors. 1945 year.
These achievements of American industry are quite understandable: - A developed country that did not know wars on its territory, carried out industrialization at the dawn of the twentieth century. And the US was ready at any time to realize the accumulated potential.
Panorama of the military shipyard in Philadelphia.
Hitler was really crazy when he decided to declare war on the US, 'faithful to the allied duty to Japan.'
'There are no more stupid people than Americans. They will never be able to fight like heroes '
Adolf Gitler.
This quotation of a man who for a long time stopped the development of Germany and caused an indelible trauma to the entire national consciousness of the German people ... does not it remind you of anything?
In the next article of the cycle, I will give interesting facts for the residents of the former USSR about supplies for lend-lease and its transport arteries.