>I understand the Red army rode into Hungary on US built Studebaker
>6x6's in 1956.
I did a few fact checks on the truck numbers. The Soviets had over to
400,000 2.5 Ton trucks of US origin, making up about 65% of their total
truck force. I have no idea what the breakdown is but I know that they
received a huge number of Studebakers.
This truck count is cited in many detailed works about the Eastern Front
as being a significant cause for the rapid disintegration of the German
frontlines and territorial losses from Operation Bagration (June 22, 1944
- biggest land offensive in the war) until the collapse of the Third
Reich. The Germans were, for a bunch of reasons, practically truckless
at this point in the war.
Steve
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