Necessary Lend-Lease goods, which brought colossal assistance to the Soviet Union in the Second World War
Thousands of trucks were delivered along the Trans-Iranian Corridor and were also very popular with Soviet drivers. Both the stew played an American role, and the medicines (especially penicillin) – many of the wounded were saved thanks to it.
Stew
The S-47 transport aircraft (the essence of the DC-3), many of them were ferried through Yakutia, were also very different for the better from their Soviet brothers Li-2.
S-47
Of course, the P-40 and P-47 fighters were not the best for the conditions of the Soviet-German front, Stalin himself said about the Hurricanes that they were not particularly good equipment, but they were also welcome at the beginning of the war. Unfortunately, we were denied B-17 bombers, and we had very few analogues (Pe-8).
D-Alco Diesel Locomotive
A very important role in the future was played by D-Alco diesel locomotives, which were brought under Lend-Lease at the end of the war, they became the basis for our first serial diesel locomotive TE-1, and the diesel from this locomotive is still produced today (of course, since then it has acquired double-circuit cooling, water oil cooler, electronic fuel injection control, but in general it is the same diesel) under the PDG brand. Of course We would have done without Lend-Lease, but the weapons, equipment and materials that the Allies supplied to us certainly helped a lot to bring our common Victory closer.
By the way, the Airacobra was not such an outstanding aircraft at first, they began to supply it to us on the principle of “Take what we don’t like”, but it was on the Soviet-German front, in the hands of our pilots, that the full potential of this fighter was fully revealed. Again, serious research work was carried out at the Air Force Research Institute (the future Gromov Flight Research Institute), recommendations were developed for pilots in terms of performing a number of maneuvers. and for ground services to strengthen individual structural elements, as a result, most of the Cobras produced in the United States were transferred to us along the AlSib route.