The Persian Corridor and aid to Russia

Za Rodinu · Jun 20, 2008

The story of United States Army activity in the Persian Corridor during World War II has a central theme, supply. Its major development, lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union, grows out of its minor, lend-lease aid to Great Britain in supplying Russia and in preparing against threatened Axis invasion of the area. The fighting war, the war of guns, is but a muted obbligato to the central theme. The strategic unity of the Middle East and its vital importance to the final victory, the bloody struggle to fend off Axis drives toward Suez and the oil fields of Iraq and Iran, of Saudi Arabia and the Caucasus-these are high themes, but not the subject of this book.

This is not the story of guns and fighting. Here, men do not kill, though .they are sometimes killed. The story of supply tells of another kind of fight, not without its own brand of courage, its own price of endurance.

Supply is the theme, the fighting war all but an echo. There will be dissonance; for in this story the United States finds itself upon a stage long trodden in rivalry by Britain and Russia. From the mingled motifs arise overtones, troubled echoes of the past, jarring notes of the present, and unfinished phrases awaiting the future.
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The Persian Corridor and aid to Russia

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