The Red Army Motor Fleet and Lend-Lease

Описание: The Red Army Motor Fleet and Lend-Lease
H.G.W. Davie
Part of Eastern Front Week (5) on WW2TV
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It has long been accepted that America's contribution to victory in the Second World War was both through her military efforts and through her industrial prowess in giving weapons to the rest of the world through Lend-Lease. The US contributed a huge tonnage of supplies to the USSR to help it sustain its war effort and a significant part of this was in motor vehicles. In fact, some authors have claimed that much of the success of the Red Army from 1943 onwards was due to these vehicles. It's a view point even supported by many Soviet historians. But is it all too good to be true?

Our guest is H.G.W. Davie, Visiting Research Fellow at the East Centre at the University of East Anglia.

He is involved in a long term project to study the logistics of the Red Army during the Soviet-German War 1941-5 and has published five papers to date drawn mainly from Russian language sources.

The talk is based on his paper published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies: Logistics of the Combined-Arms Army — Motor Transport
https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2018...
https://www.hgwdavie.com/blog/2020/1/...

And the follow up paper:
The Logistics of the Combined-Arms Army— the Rear: High Mobility Through Limited Means
https://doi.org/10.1080/13518046.2020...
https://www.hgwdavie.com/blog/2021/11...

Hugh's previous appearance on WW2TV The Invisible Army - Horse drawn armies in the age of the motor vehicle https://www.youtube.com/live/4Pq6aiQa...

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