U.S. & U.K. Lend Lease efforts and Soviet success in the Great Patriotic War

[ReluctantSamurai]

I basically took an article and used the information from that to get a debate started.

When I asked for a source, I meant a primary source...that is, official military documents from surveys, unit histories, high command AAR's, etc. That particular article is circulating amongst many i-net articles and it is incorrect. Where did it originate?

So it looks like your own source is correlating to this article.

No, it does not. Do you see any British tanks mentioned in unit histories? Nada one. Only the 136th Independent Tank Brigade (with 20 Matilda II's) made it to the battle. The remaining Allied tanks that arrived at Archangelsk on PQ3 arrived too late to participate. (You do know that until mid-1942, the heaviest crane operating in Archangelsk was 11 ton? Hardly enough to lift a medium tank off of a merchant ship. They had to be driven onto special ramps and lowered onto barges for transfer to shore.)

the aid was far too little and late to make a difference in the decisive battles of 1941–1942.

One thing we can agree upon. The victories at Moscow in 1941, and Stalingrad in 1942, were, for the most part, almost totally Soviet achievements.

Got some figures for this statement?...they are difficult to come by...use the second link that I provided above. The figures do not support your statement.

The later stages of the war, the land-lease became less crucial to the Soviet success especially compared to 1941-1942.

You would never have seen the sweeping offensives of late-1943, 1944, and 1945 without LL (the trucks and canned food in particular). While I do not believe the Soviets would have lost without LL, I'm not sure they could have won either