Germanys technology needed to find a solution to the T 34 and other heavy tanks, Russian infantry, artillery and rocket bombardments and overwhelming superiority in what Stalin rightly observed the USA was superior in..........machines. A massive conflict isnt normally won by a technical marvel but by huge numbers of fairly mundane products. Much is made of the stars of a war like fighters and bombers but on the eastern front basic supplies and logistics were important. I believe it was Galland who speculated that the air war in the west served only to define where the Russians were halted.
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The United States gave to the Soviet Union from October 1, 1941 to May 31, 1945 the following: 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil), 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,900 steam locomotives, 66 Diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. One item typical of many was a tire plant that was lifted bodily from the Ford Company's River Rouge Plant and transferred to the USSR. The 1947 money value of the supplies and services amounted to about eleven billion dollars.
By contrast when Germany invaded Russia approximately 800,000 horses were used.
It would take a technical edge only seen in science fiction to overcome the discrepancy in industrial output once the USA and USSR were mobilized combined with the UK and commonwealth already engaged.
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The United States gave to the Soviet Union from October 1, 1941 to May 31, 1945 the following: 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil), 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,900 steam locomotives, 66 Diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. One item typical of many was a tire plant that was lifted bodily from the Ford Company's River Rouge Plant and transferred to the USSR. The 1947 money value of the supplies and services amounted to about eleven billion dollars.
By contrast when Germany invaded Russia approximately 800,000 horses were used.
It would take a technical edge only seen in science fiction to overcome the discrepancy in industrial output once the USA and USSR were mobilized combined with the UK and commonwealth already engaged.
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