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Truth.
BTW, if not for us, yall would be speaking German.
look up Lend Lease program..a whole lot of U.S hardware was fighting before we got thereNot quite true. The Brits had destroyed the Luftwaffe by May 1941 as well as the German invasion fleet and Hitler had given up any thought of invasion, the USA did not join the fray until until after Pearl Harbour and did not start operations in Europe until 1942. However, I would agree that if the Americans had not defeated the Japanese at the Battle of the Coral Sea we Australians would probably be speaking Japanese, although we had defeated the Japanese on land in New Guinea.
Russia was not a serious threat during WWII. Obviously they had lots of troops at their disposal who were by and large, motivated to protect Russian territory from the German invaders. US did however help our Soviet allies with $11 billion (in 1947 dollars) in lend lease materials. This included over 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 12,000 armored vehicles of which about 7000 were tanks of different types and 11,400 aircraft. Foodstuffs included 1.75 million tons of food. There were some types of aid requested but rejected, specifically heavy bombers. US doctrine at the time saw delivery of heavy bombers as a potential risk to the US so those requests were all rejected. US produced on the order of 30,000 heavy bombers. By comparison USSR started the war with only 27 heavy bombers and only produced about 100 more during the war period. In some cases aid went beyond simple shipment of goods. A full tire manufacturing plant was taken from Ford Motor Company and shipped to USSR.
Beyond US aid to USSR Britain also sent them ~7000 aircraft of varying types, 27 naval ships, 5218 tanks, 5000 anti-tank guns, 4000+ ambulances, 323 machinery trucks (what we'd call a field service truck), 15,000,000 pairs of boots.
All in all Russia received significant help from her allies during the war. They obviously paid an extremely high price in human lives lost. Without the aid they'd have had an extremely difficult time even keeping the Germans off their doorstep, much less represented a global offensive threat.
right on,The Brits had destroyed the Luftwaffe by May 1941
Russia was not a serious threat during WWII. Obviously they had lots of troops at their disposal who were by and large, motivated to protect Russian territory from the German invaders. US did however help our Soviet allies with $11 billion (in 1947 dollars) in lend lease materials. This included over 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 12,000 armored vehicles of which about 7000 were tanks of different types and 11,400 aircraft. Foodstuffs included 1.75 million tons of food. There were some types of aid requested but rejected, specifically heavy bombers. US doctrine at the time saw delivery of heavy bombers as a potential risk to the US so those requests were all rejected. US produced on the order of 30,000 heavy bombers. By comparison USSR started the war with only 27 heavy bombers and only produced about 100 more during the war period. In some cases aid went beyond simple shipment of goods. A full tire manufacturing plant was taken from Ford Motor Company and shipped to USSR.
Beyond US aid to USSR Britain also sent them ~7000 aircraft of varying types, 27 naval ships, 5218 tanks, 5000 anti-tank guns, 4000+ ambulances, 323 machinery trucks (what we'd call a field service truck), 15,000,000 pairs of boots.
All in all Russia received significant help from her allies during the war. They obviously paid an extremely high price in human lives lost. Without the aid they'd have had an extremely difficult time even keeping the Germans off their doorstep, much less represented a global offensive threat.