In hall 8.

In a far corner of Hall 8, an exhibit on the Lend-Lease Program includes not only photographs of activities in the U.S. and Soviet Union, but also some U.S. small arms, medical supplies and logistic equipment.

Source of photos: googlemap, Contributor/ James Yentz

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TEXT FROM PHOTO CAPTIONS:

ITEM 8: US tanks, M3 Grant, marching towards the front line, 1943.

ITEM 9: Studebakers, the trucks delivered from the USA at the Red Army transport base in Mozhaysk, 1944.

ITEM 10: P.F. STRELETSKY (center), Guards Captain, and the crew near the aircraft delivered by them from Alaska to Siberia, 1943. [AIRCRAFT - US A-20 Havoc nickname We Dood it]

ITEM 11: Hero of the Soviet Union I.P. MAZURUK - since 1942 the chief of the air-line Alaska-Siberia on which warplanes were delivered [AIRCRAFT - US B-25 medium bomber]

ITEM 12: Northern Fleet warships escorting the Allies merchant vessels in Barents Sea, 1942.

ITEM 13: Handling the gifts sent for Red Army servicemen from the USA and Argentina, 1942.

ITEM 15: Medicines made in the USA and provided under the Lend-Lease. Delivered by Lukashev Family in 1944.

ITEM 16: I.I. FISANOVICH, Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain 2nd Rank, the commander of M-172 submarine is receiving the U.S. decoration, Murmansk, 1944.

ITEM 17: Representatives of the Soviet Purchase Commission for Lend-Lease near the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Washington, 1943

ITEM 18: US tanks delivered at the Baku port [in Azerbaijan].

ITEM 19:

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TEXT - MAIN LEND-LEASE NARRATIVE IN DISPLAY (NOTE: English-language text on panel is cut short -- below completes portion of text translated from Russian-language version)

On March 11, 1941 the Congress of the USA adopted the law on a lend-lease which provided transfer as a loan, in rent, in an exchange or different way of the military materials and goods necessary for defense of states of the anti-Hitlerite coalition. Deliveries on a lend-lease received 42 countries.

18300 planes, 11900 tanks, 9600 tools, 131600 machine guns, 596 fighting ships came to the Soviet Union from the USA, England and Canada andvessels, 427000 cars, 35000 radio stations, 189000 field phones, 1981 engines, 11156 railway cars, 345000 tons of fuels and lubricants, explosives, 842000 tons of chemical raw materials, 4300000 tons of the food, a significant amount of the industrial [equipment and other materiel].