The U.S.A did supply a lot to the Russians during the lend-lease programme, but the Russians usually did not think the goods fantastic-the Sherman was rather unpopular if I am correct.
I was under the impression that the Ruskies quite liked the Sherman - a rugged, reliable and simple tank. Fits in very well with Russian tank philososhy at the time. And the radio's worked.
Much of the Red army's mobility was due to Anglo-American supplies, if memory serves over 70% of truck being used by the Russian military were American made. I will try and dig up some figures on this, but I think about 80% of the food and 60% of the clothes used the the Red Army were due to lend-lease. This effectively meant that the USSR could forget about trying to feed or clothe etc itself, and concentrate almost entirely on the production of tanks, ammo, guns etc. This gave them the edge they needed to survive 41-42.
The Russians were much more dangerous than the Americans-during the early American action in Africa, the U.S.A were beaten at Kasserine pass,
They lost the Kasserine pass after putting up stubborn resistance for almost 2 days. An Anglo-American force quickley took back the lost ground.
The US army was a much more efficent and effective fighting force than the Red army of 1941. They had better tanks (the M3 Grant and suchlike were much better than the Soviet bt-7's and t-26's of the time), better leadership (due to Stalin's purges), better tactical and strategic doctrine (the Russian idea of throwing as many men as possible into a battle and then hoping things turned out in your favour was fatally ineffective and wasteful), better infantry (the average Red army soldier of 1941 was not as effective in combat as the average American infantryman), and they were better equiped.
Remember, this is 1941 we are talking about.
The Pacific also prooved devastating to the Americans in the early months.
Yeah, the Ruskies sure did perform much better than them in 41-42 didnt they?
Operation Overlord would have been impossible without the British. The Russians crushing the Germmans was not.
Yup, d-day would never have happened without Britain. And the Russians could beat back the Germans without the Brits too. But not without the American economy behind them.
Though America did speed the war up considerably, and was something that could never be replaced, the Russians would still have crushed the German army. Of that there is little doubt.
No. Without the lend lease program the war in the east would have degenerated into a horrendous stalemate, and if Adolf had let the whermacht do its stuff then they could quite conceivably have toppled Russia.
