Arsenal of Democracy

Mindful that the U.S. was maintaining a full-scale war of its own in the Pacific, Americans nevertheless could not help feeling that Russia was carrying most of the land-fighting load in Europe. Last week they learned how much the U.S. production machine had contributed to the Eastern Front. On some fronts more than half of the Russian Army's supplies move forward in U.S. trucks. From October 1941 to December 1944 the U.S. had shipped to Russia, via Lend-Lease:

P: 331,000 motor vehicles (including 45,000 jeeps); about 29,000 motorcycles.

P:1,045 locomotives (backbone of any military supply system), 7,164 flatcars, 1,000 dump cars, 100 tank cars.

P: 135,000 machine guns, 1,800 self-propelled guns, 13,000 pistols, 8,200 assorted guns (including antiaircraft), 5,500 artillery prime movers.

P: 6,000 tanks, 1,200 half tracks, 3,300 armored scout cars, 1,700 ordnance vehicles.

P: 60 power trains with a total generating capacity of 148,000 kilowatts (enough electricity to serve a city the size of Toledo) for supplementing Russia's lost power plants.

P: 2,120,000 tons of steel (for railroad rails, etc.).

P: 11 million pairs of army boots, 97 million yards of cotton cloth, 50 million yards of woolen cloth, 58 million yards of webbing, 24,000 tons of abrasives.

P: 294,000 tons of explosives.

P: 1,300,000 tons of petroleum products, 638,000 tons of industrial chemicals.

P: 733,000 tons of non-ferrous metals (aluminum, brass, other copper products), 16,600 tons of critical ferro-alloys.

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