Sarah Paine

So...

This is to tell you what happened with those Arctic convoys.

You can see in 42, a tremendous number of them were sunk.

And this is fully laden ships with scarce war material.

So we in the British called them off for most of 42 and most of 43.

And Stalin was beside himself.

And so in 43, he's sending out feelers to Hitler, trying to do a separate piece.

And luckily, Hitler was not interested.

Hitler wasn't wasting his time with targeting empty ships on the home voyage.

He was only going after the laden one.

Okay, so what is all this Lend-Lease-Aid support?

What does it add up to?

Well, in Barbarossa, you got 3 million plus Russians going after 3 million Germans.

That's a lot of people to supply and tie up.

And as you watch that go, the Axis is killing Russians or making them POWs by the millions, but it's suffering 15% losses of its forces.

And it's going to add up so that when you get to August 41, that's when the siege of Leningrad, St.

Petersburg begins.

By December, the Axis are within 25 miles of Moscow.

It is not looking good at all.

But once the United States is in the war,