The Persian Corridor was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. Of the 17.5 million long tons of US Lend-Lease aid provided to the Soviet Union, 7.9 million long tons (45%) were sent through Iran.
Allied road and rail supply lines through Persia into the USSR
Indian Army soldiers stand next to a supply convoy en route to the Soviet Union, 1944
Son of Reza Shah meeting with F. D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference, 1943
Persian Gulf Command, Camps - Posts - Stations
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, France, Republic of China, and other Allied nations of the Second World War with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. The aid was given free of charge on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of the United States.
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
Warsaw 1945: Willys jeep used by the Polish First Army as part of U.S. Lend-Lease program
