The Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army service command established in December 1943 to facilitate the supply of US lend-lease war material to the Soviet Union, through the "Persian Corridor".
View from a hilltop in Iran, 1942, taken by Charles L. Twitchell, World War II veteran stationed in the Persian Gulf
View of the courtyard of a home in Iran, 1942, taken by Charles L. Twitchell, World War II veteran stationed in the Persian Gulf
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
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