(sorry for the long delay)
EXCERPT OF US LIAISON MISSION TO RUSSIA REPORT
FEBRUARY 4, 1943
As of this date, the following have been delivered to the Russian Armed Forces:
18 diesel locomotives
80 C-56 transports
200 P-43 E fighters
239 steam locomotives
280 A-20 light bombers
400 P-39 D fighters
500 M4A2 tanks
1,000 P-40 E fighters
1,625 armored cars
1,765 flatcars
4,400 motorcycles
23,000 field artillery rounds
38,000 jeeps and trucks
333,796 gallons of aviation fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, and other petroleum products
559,765 tons of foodstuffs
4,668,000 small arms rounds
Between August 1941 and the Zhukov coup, the US had delivered thousands of tanks, armored cars, trucks, aircraft, etc which were either lost in combat or abandoned in the retreat from Moscow. Zhukov’s government wants even more. It is the recommendation of this office that we do not increase the amounts being delivered. Under no circumstances should more advanced weapons be offered.
TRUE STORIES
OF THE RESISTANCE
By JB Hunicutt
Province Books 1985
The Eastern Front
February 5, 1943
Colonel John Westall, RM, Commanding Officer 18th Battalion, 1st Guerrilla Regiment was a happy man. He had just received a letter from his wife (via an SOE/FIS team), an Allied Special Operations team had joined his command, and thanks to German atrocities and his command’s work, he was getting plenty of volunteers. Of course they were doing their best to vet these newcomers lest a German spy get inside their organization.
Right now he was sending out platoons on hit and run raids on German positions.
Excerpt from the
official diary of Captain Sir Harold Brash, Commanding Officer HMS Agincourt
Off Calvi, Corsica
0800, February 6, 1943
The commander of the German forces on Corsica, Generalmajor Martin Berg, was brought aboard to formally surrender all German forces on the island.
Berg had made it clear his forces would surrender to the British and Americans, not the French. He was concerned that the French would take revenge for actions committed by German troops on Corsica against French nationals.
He was clearly unhappy when General Pierre Duchesne, the Supreme Allied Commander for the Mediterranean Theater met him in the wardroom
Excerpt from Chapter Four – The Pacific
Carriers at War
By
Rear Admiral Kristen Weller, USN Ret
Annapolis Press
2015
1300 February 6, 1943
Wake Island had become the post “graduation” stop for carriers heading to the Western Pacific. Task Force 50 consisting of the battleship USS Kentucky, the carriers Valley Forge, Kearsarge and Reprisal, plus their escorts began three days of air strikes on the Japanese positions.
TF 50 was assisted for one day by the carrier USS Essex which was heading back to the US after throwing a propeller blade.