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That's alotThe planes that were supplied to them I believe were and feel free to add what I did not put:
DC-3
P-63
P-39
P-40
I know there are more types, I just can not recall them off the top of my head at the moment.
Total lend lease to the Soviet Union in WW2 by the US:
Aircraft.............................14,795
Tanks.................................7,056
Jeeps................................51,503
Trucks..............................375,883
Motorcycles..........................35,170
Tractors..............................8,071
Guns..................................8,218
Machine guns........................131,633
Explosives..........................345,735 tons
Building equipment valued.......$10,910,000
Railroad freight cars................11,155
Locomotives...........................1,981
Cargo ships..............................90
Submarine hunters.......................105
Torpedo boats...........................197
Ship engines..........................7,784
Food supplies.....................4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment.......$1,078,965,000
Noniron metals......................802,000 tons
Petroleum products................2,670,000 tons
Chemicals...........................842,000 tons
Cotton..........................106,893,000 tons
Leather..............................49,860 tons
Tires.............................3,786,000
Army boots.......................15,417,000 pairs
How about "Go Army Beat Navy!"Needs a slogan on the side. Great picture!
One of worthy note - Lev Shestaov - 16 in WW2, 39 over Spain. He was killed in an air battle with Hans-Ulrich Rudel, allegedly shot down by Rudel's rear gunner Ernst GadermannI said that 55 kills was a lot for the Soviet Union. I am not saying it did not happen.
For the record...
Ivan Kozhedub -- 64 -- La-5 mostly
Grigory Rechkalov -- 61 -- Polikarpov I-153 (biplane), P-39
Nicholai Gulayev -- 55 -- MiG-3, Yak-1, P-39
Kirill Yevstigneyev -- 53 -- La-5, La-7
Dmitri Glinka -- 50 -- Yak-1, P-40, P-39
Alexander Pokyrishkin -- 45 -- MiG-3, P-39
I am surprised here by the number of P-39s, and the lack of Yaks, particularly the Yak-3. No P-47s. No F4Us.
Thanks for the share Greg!Since we are discussing Aces, here's my list, taken from all over, but a lot from the Magnus Family website. Altogether a good website.
Where would a copy of the list be please, given the reference I have does not detail losses en route by type? The combination of US types shipped to Britain then to the USSR, the on British Account types, the direct US shipments, the ones rejected by the USSR, the theatre transfers and losses en route makes for a challenge to find accurate totals. However no F4U were sent to the USSR.you can even check the lend lease list . . . and, yes, there is such a list. No F4Us to the USSR.
| Aircraft | sent | lost | rejected | arrived |
| Airacobra | 255 | 53 | 202 | |
| Tomahawk | 30 | 30 | ||
| Hurricane IIA | 176 | 22 | 154 | |
| Hurricane IIB | 1690 | 278 | 1412 | |
| Hurricane IIC | 1130 | 46 | 117 | 967 |
| Spitfire IX | 201 | 201 | ||
| Spitfire IXE | 985 | 985 | ||
| Spitfire HF IXE | 1 | 1 | ||
| Totals | 4468 | 399 | 117 | 3952 |
| Aircraft | sent | lost | rejected | arrived | |
| Hurricane IIA | 41 | 41 | Shipped pre protocol | ||
| Hurricane IIB | 159 | 159 | Shipped pre protocol | ||
| Tomahawk | 141 | 141 | Shipped pre protocol | ||
| Tomahawk | 59 | 59 | from US on UK account | ||
| Airacobra | 10 | 10 | Shipped pre protocol for spares | ||
| Mustang I | 4 | 4 | Shipped pre protocol for trials | ||
| Hurricane IIA | 1 | 1 | Ex 151 Wing | ||
| Hurricane IIB | 35 | 35 | Ex 151 Wing | ||
| Spitfire VB | 150 | 150 | Offered in October 1942, handed over at Basra | ||
| Hampden | 25 | 25 | Handed over in North Russia, October 1942, torpedo bombers | ||
| Spitfire IV | 3 | 3 | Handed over in North Russia, October 1942 | ||
| Spitfire IV | 3 | 3 | Handed over in North Russia, June 1944 | ||
| Hurricane IID | 60 | 14 | 46 | Offered in April 1943, shipped to Basra | |
| Albemarle | 14 | 14 | Flown out of UK by USSR ferry crews | ||
| Mosquito IV | 1 | 1 | Flown out of UK by USSR ferry crews | ||
| Hurricane IIC | 52 | 52 | Replacements for rejected aircraft, shipped in convoy JW.58, offered in January 1944 | ||
| Hurricane IV | 30 | 30 | Replacements for rejected aircraft, handed over at Basra, offered in January 1944 | ||
| Lancaster I | 5 | 5 | Force landed aircraft handed over in September 1944 | ||
| Lancaster III | 1 | 1 | Force landed aircraft handed over in September 1944 | ||
| Typhoon I | 1 | 1 | Shipped March 1945 to Middle East, arrived April 1945. | ||
| Stirling III | 1 | 1 | Flown to Adaban in February 1945 | ||
| Airacobra | 1 | 1 | Shipped to Basra in error, believed to have arrived in Russia. | ||
| Total | 797 | 783 |
| Alsib | N Russia | Adaban | S atlantic | total | |
| P-40 | 48 | 910 | 1090 | 2048 | |
49 | 49 | ||||
| P-39 | 999 | 50 | 2020 | 3069 | |
1592 | 30 | 1622 | |||
27 | 28 | 55 | |||
| P-47 | 3 | 4 | 188 | 195 | |
| P-63 | 2312 | 2312 | |||
85 | 3 | 88 | |||
| sub totals | 5066 | 1074 | 3298 | 0 | 9438 |
| A-20 | 1363 | 126 | 550 | 869 | 2908 |
| B-25 | 733 | 5 | 124 | 862 | |
| B-24 | 1 | 1 | |||
| C-46 | 1 | 1 | |||
| C-47 | 707 | 707 | |||
| O-52 | 19 | 19 | |||
| AT6-C | 8 | 20 | 28 | ||
| AT6-F | 54 | 54 | |||
| totals | 7925 | 1232 | 3868 | 993 | 14018 |
| Alsib | N Russia | Adaban | S atlantic | total | |
| Delivered in US | 8058 | 1543 | 4141 | 1055 | 14797 |
| Lost in US | 74 | 17 | 91 | ||
| Lost in Canada/Alaska | 59 | 59 | |||
| Departed N America | 7925 | 1543 | 4124 | 1038 | 14630 |
| Lost after departure | 310 | 231 | 43 | 584 | |
| Arrived at destination | 7925 | 1232 | 3911 | 994 | 14062 |
| Delivered to USSR at Destination | 7925 | 1232 | 3868 | 993 | 14018 |
| Total Losses | 734 |
| PBN-1 | 137 |
| PBY-6A | 48 |
Ah, what a waste of quality wood. Just when they started to produce thousands of Mossies in the USA.From what I understand there was a lot of reverse lend lease as well. I heard the Soviet Union supplied the US about 40 LaGG-3s for the defense of the Panama Canal. Although the shipment was made about the time the war ended, the Soviets didn't want the disassembled airframes returned and they sat at a pier in Miami for months. Eventually they were declared surplus and sold to the civilian market. Since all the manuals were in Russian, every airframe was parted out, engines found their way on swamp boats and the wooden fuselages were bought up by farmers who cut the wood fuselages in half and used them for midget orange tree planters. The wings were made into swamp boats and Manatee mating
platforms.
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In the USA? I thought they were built in Canada. Last I heard we haven't quite completed the annexation of Canada yet, though we'd love to add their maple syrup production to our domestic totalsAh, what a waste of quality wood. Just when they started to produce thousands of Mossies in the USA.
Are you sure about this? I am Googling it and finding nothing. The LaGG-3 was one of the reasons German fighter pilots ran up 150+ kills. The Russians preferred P-39s. I think the Americans would have preferred them too.From what I understand there was a lot of reverse lend lease as well. I heard the Soviet Union supplied the US about 40 LaGG-3s for the defense of the Panama Canal...
If you read into this its a joke and about as ridiculous as the claim as the Soviet Union getting Corsairs!!!Are you sure about this? I am Googling it and finding nothing. The LaGG-3 was one of the reasons German fighter pilots ran up 150+ kills. The Russians preferred P-39s. I think the Americans would have preferred them too.
Didn't all air forces prefer P-39s?Are you sure about this? I am Googling it and finding nothing. The LaGG-3 was one of the reasons German fighter pilots ran up 150+ kills. The Russians preferred P-39s. I think the Americans would have preferred them too.