Transcript Special Agent Grandfather

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8b history
jake watson
world war ii
lend lease act
ci
The Counter Intelligence Corp was a division of the
Army during World War II
The Counter Intelligence Corp had many top secret
duties during World War II...
Their main objective:
vestigate sabotages and subversive activities against
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
My Grand father was a special agent with the CIC
He had many assignments but one memorable one
took him to Alaska
That’s him in the middle
He was involved in the Alsib Route
of the Lend Lease Act of 1941
Passed on March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies
to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”
Russia was fighting a losing battle and did not have
the supplies and equipment necessary to stop the
Nazi’s from invading.
The Lend Lease Act had another Route:
ALSIB
short for Alaska - Siberia
The Lend Lease program got supplies to Alaska
Starting point Great Falls , Montana
up to White Horse, Canada
then North to Alaska
Russian pilots would fly the supplies over the Bering
Sea to Russia
Almost 8,000 aircraft were
ferried over the ALSIB route
Not all of the aircraft made it
The Lend-Lease program dramatically
changed the tide of the war. Unfortunately,
those who flew the planes and built the air
route between the United States, Canada,
the Yukon, Alaska, and eventually across
Russia to the Asian Pacific, received little
or no recognition.
Neither the Red Army Museum in Moscow nor
the Soviet Air Force Museum makes any
mention of Soviet use of American aircraft
during WWII or that the Western Allies even
participated in that war. This is even more
interesting when comparing a P-63 flight
manual page from the Soviet version and the
American original.
Review
WWII
Russia
desperately
needed supplies
Even Russia
The Alsib Route Those who worked
doesn’t
was a success and on the project got
acknowledge
helped the allies
little or no
having had help to
win the war
recognition
win the war!!!
ow you know about Lend Lease and the Alsib Route
share your new knowledge with someone
The
End
Sources:
Files, photos, notes and memories from my
Grandfather
Clement M Toohill
12-12-17 to 07-20-2002
Investigator 301
Staff Sergeant
US Army Air Corps
http://holly9588.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/iwo-jima-flag-raising-wwii.jpg
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
http://aviationhistory.info/i/photo/warbird/B-10-bombers.gif
http://www.bravo369.org/lend%20lease/lend.html
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1668
http://www.google.com/images?q=lend+lease+act&client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&oq=lend+lease+&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql