Including military technical equipment, sustenance, ammunition, medical drugs and oil.
It was not until late 1945 that U.S. aid to the Soviet Union reached a sizable figure, with the total value of its supplies amounting to $11.141 billion, or about 22.7 percent of total Lend-Lease aid. Among them were 14,018 aircraft of all types, 22,800 armored vehicles, 7,944 anti-aircraft guns, 108,293 submachine guns, 130,713 tons of smokeless gunpowder and 1,322,374 tons of TNT.
But the USSR didn't take the money for free. In addition to destroying a large number of fascist armies (according to the statistics, the number of fascist armies destroyed by the USSR can be compared with the total number of fascist armies destroyed by other anti-fascist countries), the USSR also sent a lot of rare metals to the United States, among which there were 300,000 tons of chromite, 32 million tons of manganese, and 260 million tons of manganese, and 2.6 million tons of manganese. million tons of manganese ore, as well as 2.6 million tons of steel, 260,000 tons of aluminum and 2.62 million tons of petroleum products, as well as 630,000 tons of chemical industry products.
According to estimates, the share of American aid in the proportion of domestically produced Soviet goods during the war was 4-10%. And U.S. aid covered a range of needs of the Soviet Red Army.
Among other things, the U.S. supplied the Soviet Union with more than 350,000 heavy trucks, thanks to which by the end of the war the Red Army no longer had a shortage of heavy trucks.
In addition, the United States supplied the Soviet Union with 11,500 aircraft, 12,000 pieces of armored technical equipment, 1,977 locomotive heads, 35,000 motorcycles, 105 anti-submarine ships and the same number of submarines, 346,000 tons of explosive devices, 127,000 tons of gunpowder, and much more. A special role was played by the provisions provided by the United States (almost 4.5 million tons).
Between 1943 and 1945, the Soviet Union's agricultural production was so badly damaged by the war that it was no longer able to feed millions of troops. Thus, in mid-1944, a wide variety of foodstuffs, including 665,000 tons of canned goods, were supplied by what the Soviet Red Army called the "second front," which accounted for a quarter of all Lend-Lease supplies.
Also not to be forgotten are the medical drugs (supplied by the United States). Nearly all of the antibiotics and penicillin used in the field hospitals of the Soviet Red Army were supplied through Lend-Lease. This led to a significant reduction in the death rate of Soviet servicemen due to wounds and infections. Soviet air power also received gasoline in quantities exceeding two million tons, or two-thirds of the fuel refilled by Soviet aircraft.
Additionally, the U.S. through Lend-Lease provided the Soviets with hundreds of thousands of air equipment parts, radios, navigational devices, and more.
Not charity
By supplying the Soviets, it raised the average annual pre-war Soviet import bill by about 50 times. From January 1942 to May 1945, the U.S.*** exported 22 million tons of supplies needed by the U.S. military to Europe, more than 20% of the amount of supplies provided to the Soviet Union (*** provided 17.5 million tons to the Soviet Union). It should be noted that Lend-Lease planning was equally beneficial to the Americans, and through Lend-Lease the United States was able to mobilize its industrial system in the shortest possible time.
The process of U.S. supplies to the Soviet Union can be divided into five phases: the Advance Lend-Lease Act (June 22 to September 30, 1941), the First Chronicle (October 1 to June 30, 1941), the Second Chronicle (July 1, 1942 to June 30, 1943), the Third Chronicle (July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944) and the Fourth Minute (July 1, 1944).
On May 12, 1945, ostensibly Lend-Lease ended, but U.S. military supplies to the Soviet Union did not stop until after the victory over Japan. It should be understood that Lend-Lease was not charity or humanitarian aid. Thus, at the end of the war, most of the Soviet military technical equipment and weapons were returned to the United States. For example, in the museums of the United States there are several Bell P-39 "Air Cobra" fighter planes with red stars on the wings. The Americans did not ask for compensation for the technical equipment destroyed during the war.
Also, during the war, the program known as the Lend-Lease Return Act was implemented, within the framework of which the Soviet Union provided the USA with a sufficient amount of strategic raw materials, including 32,000 tons of manganese-containing raw materials and 300,000 tons of chrome ore for the production of armour. The total amount of Soviet supplies to the United States amounted to about 20% of the supplies that the United States provided to the Soviet Union through Lend-Lease.