WI, American forces sent to Soviet Union during ww2?

WI USA had decided to help Soviet Union in another way than invading North Africa. Lets say they send a army or two to the Soviet union by the way of Iran. USA troops at Stalingrad? Patton, Sjukov and Koniev in charge of one front each as they near Berlin

Impossible?

How many more troops could USA field without disrupting the factory flow?
 
I'd say impossible. You would have the men and materials across a long distance in very rough weather, with troops who may not be experienced in such conditions in a nation in a life or death struggles that needs all the resources it could get. If the U.S troops don't strain the resources can most of the unit make it back alive is the big question.
 
Patton on the Volga would probably be a really awesome TL, but its also totally ASB. There is no way in hell that the Soviets will allow Allied troops onto Soviet soil. They'd be too afraid ideological contamination as a result of prolonged contact with British or American forces. I think it simply wouldn't happen.
 
I remember reading one of those "How to Win the War" books that were mildly popular at the time. The author gave an analysis of the comparative manpower strengths of the Axis and the Allies -- assuming that all troops were equal.

His proposal was to locate the "mass of maneuver" -- the American Army and Army Air Force -- in the "central position" from which they could operate against either Germany or Japan.

The "central position" was the Soviet Maritime Provinces [Primorsky Krai].


Somehow I don't think this was particularly practicable.
 
Patton on the Volga would probably be a really awesome TL, but its also totally ASB. There is no way in hell that the Soviets will allow Allied troops onto Soviet soil. They'd be too afraid ideological contamination as a result of prolonged contact with British or American forces. I think it simply wouldn't happen.
Royal Air Force Hawker Hurricane fighters were stationed near Archangelsk during Operation Benedict, and American bombers flew shuttle bombing missions from Poltava, Ukraine, during Operation Frantic.

If I remember correctly, Stalin also asked for US ground troops to fight the Germans inside the Soviet Union in the winter of 1941, obviously without success.

Stalin may possibly have worried about "ideological contamination", but military considerations apparently were more important.
 
Yes, and according to Wiki the Russians wouldn't let the Americans adequately defend themselves and also "accidentally" fired on some of the American bombers.:eek:
 
If I remember correctly, Stalin also asked for US ground troops to fight the Germans inside the Soviet Union in the winter of 1941, obviously without success.

Stalin may possibly have worried about "ideological contamination", but military considerations apparently were more important.

But he did turn down FDR's requests to station USAAF Bomber Groups on Soviet Territory like they were in the UK
 
I think you'd either have to see Stalin removed from the picture somehow, or a much more desperate SU before you'd see anything remotely approaching the requirements for this to be possible.
 
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