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Here is a very complete listing of all the Allied equipment shipped to the USSR during the war years, including railroad equipment, truck, tanks, etc...

For a long time the Soviets did not recognize the volume of equipment supplied by England or America during the war. The number of trucks is staggering...

http://www.o5m6.de/main.html

The author has produced pretty good illustrations of each type vehicle and is continuing to update his site as he receives more information.

Will
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In wargaming it's cool to have Germans with T-34 The Russians with Shermans and so on.

I mix some of my units.........i am surpised over the years how many gamers actually argue about this...then I kindly remind them....that in 1941 the germans captured more russian <including> equipment from vehicles to weapons then the germans produced doing the entire year of 1941 and part of 1942 in there own factories
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Yeah, it's pretty well accepted that the lend-lease trucks supplied to the Russians were instrumental in putting wheels under an important part of the Red Army.

Whether that in return played a decisive role in the final outcome of the conflict on the Eastern Front is rather more difficult to ascertain. Personally I would think no. It may have played a more prominent, but perhaps less obvious role in the post-war shaping of Europe, however.

...just wanted to bring this up to the Shermans used by the Germans thread. Will has an addy that will take you to a site with info...