What percentage of Russia's WW2 wartime equipment was supplied by the United States?

Question

I saw in a book once that we only supplied Russia with 4% of all it wartime supplies thruough the lend lease act. Does anybody have and real numbers with Refrences. I dont want any of that "they couldnt have won the war without us crap" that is like saying we fought the Civil war just to end slavery.

Answer 1

I would say that 4% sounds about right. Most of the equiptment we supplied them with was ground vehicles (namely half-tracks and sherman tanks) and some aircraft (the P-39 mostly).

However, the Russians had a very large industrial capacity during the war, even building a small city based around a tank plant (tankograd). The Russian method was to flood their forces with low-quality, quickly-manufactured weapons and equipment in hope the quantity would beat the German's quality. Thus, the number of items they produced relative to the number of items we (or anyone else) supplied to them is very large, so 4% isnt very far off.

Answer 2

The list 1 below is the amount of war matériel shipped to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program from its beginning until 30 September 1945.
Aircraft 14,795
Tanks 7,056
Jeeps 51,503
Trucks 375,883
Motorcycles 35,170
Tractors 8,071
Guns 8,218
Machine guns 131,633
Explosives 345,735 tons
Building equipment valued $10,910,000
Railroad freight cars 11,155
Locomotives 1,981
Cargo ships 90
Submarine hunters 105
Torpedo boats 197
Ship engines 7,784
Food supplies 4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment $1,078,965,000
Non-ferrous metals 802,000 tons
Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons
Chemicals 842,000 tons
Cotton 106,893,000 tons
Leather 49,860 tons
Tires 3,786,000
Army boots 15,417,001 pairs

Notes

1. ^ Leo T. Crowley, "Lend Lease" in Walter Yust, ed. 10 Eventful Years (1947) 2: 858-60; 1:520.

From Wikipedia with note

Answer 3

That's about the right figure. There was a couple from the Soviet Union who ran their lend lease office in Washington during the war. The lady wound up running listener services for the English service of Radio Moscow for many years thereafter. She said it was less than 5% overall.

Answer 4

The US extended $1 billion of credit to Russia.

Answer 5

They won their part of WWII with out any help from us! After having over 6 million Russian citizens killed, they deserved the win and got it fairly. If we did send anything, it wasn't much.

Your comparison to the civil war is sad!