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learn and teachja
learn and teachja
8b historyjake watson8b history
jake watson
world war iilend lease act
ci
The Counter Intelligence Corp was a division of the Army during World War II
The Counter Intelligence Corp had many top secret duties during World War II...
Their main objective:Investigate sabotages and subversive activities against
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
My Grand father was a special agent with the CIC
He had many assignments but one memorable one took him to Alaska
That’s him in the middle
He was involved in the Alsib Route of the Lend Lease Act of
1941
Passed on March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”
Russia was fighting a losing battle and did not have the supplies and equipment necessary to
stop the Nazi’s from invading.The Lend Lease Act had another Route:
ALSIBshort for Alaska - Siberia
The Lend Lease program got supplies to Alaska Starting point Great Falls , Montana
up to White Horse, Canadathen North to Alaska
Russian pilots would fly the supplies over the Bering Sea to Russia
Almost 8,000 aircraft were ferried over the ALSIB route
Not all of the aircraft made it
The Lend-Lease program dramatically changed the tide of the war. Unfortunately, those who flew the planes and built the air route between the United States, Canada, the Yukon, Alaska, and eventually across Russia to the Asian Pacific, received little
or no recognition.
Neither the Red Army Museum in Moscow nor the Soviet Air Force Museum makes any
mention of Soviet use of American aircraft during WWII or that the Western Allies even participated in that war. This is even more interesting when comparing a P-63 flight
manual page from the Soviet version and the American original.
Review
WWII
Russia desperately
needed supplies
The Alsib Route was a success
and helped the allies win the
war
Those who worked on the
project got little or no
recognition
Even Russia doesn’t
acknowledge having had help to win the war!!!
Now you know about Lend Lease and the Alsib Routeshare your new knowledge with someone
TheEnd
Sources:Files, photos, notes and memories from
my GrandfatherClement M Toohill
12-12-17 to 07-20-2002Investigator 301
Staff SergeantUS Army Air Corps
http://holly9588.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/iwo-jima-flag-raising-wwii.jpghttp://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
http://aviationhistory.info/i/photo/warbird/B-10-bombers.gifhttp://www.bravo369.org/lend%20lease/lend.html
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1668http://www.google.com/images?q=lend+lease+act&client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&oq=lend+lease+&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql
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