Lend-Lease
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Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union,
President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941).
House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1
British pupils wave for the camera as they receive plates of American bacon and eggs from Lend-Lease
Water-cooled machine guns, just arrived from the USA under lend-lease, are checked at an ordnance depot in England c. 1941
The Studebaker US6 was a series of 2+1⁄2-ton 6×6 and 5-ton 6×4 trucks manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation and REO Motor Car Company during World War II. The basic cargo version was designed to
Lend-Lease
…were produced. Trucks were also vital; by 1945, nearly a third of the trucks used by the Red Army were U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3⁄4-ton and Studebaker 2+1⁄2-ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations…
Studebaker US6 U4 Cargo truck
Hercules JXD engine
Long wheelbase frame
Cargo U4