Gautam said (in a message I haven't seen): > As one Soviet general said to the other in Paris, "By > the way, who won the air war?" (old, and bitter, army > joke). The "sea battle" was relevant only to the > extent that it allowed the US to supply Great Britain.
And both to supply the Soviet Union! Together, the US, the UK and Canada supplied the USSR with something like 12,000 aircraft, 9,000 tanks, hundreds of thousands of other vehicles, enough food to feed twelve million troops for the duration of the war, and lots of fuel too. If the war at sea had been lost and this supply pipeline dried up, I'm not sure if the Soviets would've survived until the tide turned at Stalingrad. Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
