Interesting facts about Lend-Lease2

in history •  7 years ago 

The famous Arlington Cemetery in the United States (the largest military memorial, the last refuge of the soul of an American soldier) lost its metal fences in the second world. They were removed and remade for the needs of the US Army and allies. In memory of this, it was decided not to restore them.


Assembling the instrument panel on the B-25 bomber And this is despite the fact that the USSR has received from the US assistance for just over $ 10 billion, and Britain for more than 30 billion. The losses and destruction of the USSR and Britain, as well as the number of Wehrmacht and SS divisions we split, are not comparable.

Coloring the aircraft of the US Army Mongolia greatly helped the USSR, in gratitude for helping in the war with the Japanese. Every fifth greatcoat and horse at the front was from Mongolia. The Mongols then for a long time and difficult to restore their pre-war livestock of horses and cattle, there was even a famine. On Mongolia lay out a separate post somehow.

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