The Pacific Route

The Main Routes
Merchant ship "Klara Zetkin" loaded with locos
Liberty ship "Red Guard" under Soviet flag
A typical convoy left Seattle for Vladivostok in Jan 1944
A typical convoy left Seattle for Vladivostok in Jan 1944.
It was composed of 46 merchantmen (all 8-10K ton ships); built by McCormack Ship Yards that were Soviet flagged and Soviet crewed.
  • Six of the 46 ships were loaded with ammunitions and small arms.
  • Four of the 46 ships were loaded with foodstuffs.
  • Two of the 46 ships were loaded by Dodge (presumably with trucks).
  • One ship was loaded by Westinghouse (presumably with communications gear).

Others carried:

  • 20,000 tons of steel provided by U.S. Steel.
  • 3,000 truck chassis, by Ford (the Soviets also assembled U.S. trucks from parts).
  • 3,000 truck differentials from Thornton Tandem Co.
  • 2,000 tractors by Allis Chalmers Co. (agricultural and military use)
  • 1,500 automotive batteries from the Price Battery Corp.
  • 1,000 aircraft provided by the North American Aviation Co.
  • 612 airplanes from the Douglas Aircraft Co.
  • 600 trucks from Mack.
  • 500 Allison aircraft engines.
  • 500 half-tracks from Minneapolis Moline Co.
  • 400 airplanes from Bell Aircraft
  • 400 electric motors from Wagner Electric Co.
  • 400 truck chassis by GM (see Ford above)
  • 310 tons of ball bearings from the Fafnir Company.
  • 200 aircraft provided by the U.S. Navy
  • 200 aircraft engines by Aeromarine
  • 100 tractor-trailer units by GM (trucks)
  • 70 aircraft engines by Pratt & Whitney

Further information : "The Unknown World War II in the Northern Pacific", by Alla Paperno

 

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