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Invisible Weapon
War Department Pamphlet No. 20-13
Invisible Weapon
War Department
Washington D.C.
These are weapons for killing Germans and Japs
You are familiar with these and many other weapons
But we have ...
Another very powerful weapon which is ...
Invisible
Because it's an idea
What is the big idea?
It's lend-lease
Is lend-lease this?
Or This?
... No
It's this
Whose fist is that smashing the Axis?
It's
Australia's
Belgium's
Bolivia's
Brazil's
Canada's
China's
Colombia's
Costa Rica's
Cuba's
Czechoslovakia's
Dominican republic's
El Salvador's
Ethiopia's
France's
Greece's
Guatemala's
Haiti's
Honduras'
India's
Iran's
Iraq's
Liberia's
Luxembourg's
Mexico's
Netherlands
New Zealand's
Nicaragua's
Norway's
Panama's
Philippines'
Poland's
South Africa's
United Kingdom's
United States'
U.S.S.R's
Yugoslavia's
We send lend-lease aid to our allies to kill Nazis and Japs
How did lend-lease start?
Let's go back to ........
March 1941
These Axis flames had consumed
Ethiopia
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Poland
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Of the 19 nations who where attacked by the Axis before March, 1941
Only 8 still stood
We were in danger!
What should we do?
We needed time
Time to expand production and train fighting men to defend our country
Lend-lease
Ships
Planes
Guns
Food
Sent to the nations holding the Axis gave us time.
Suddenly this quiet Sunday dawn
Caught Fire!
Because of lend-lease we were better prepared to meet the enemy and we were not alone:
Britain
Russia
China
were still fighting strongly ... We had fighting allies ...
We became United Nations
When any one of us hits the enemy
He strikes a blow for all.
We share out weapons and resources ...
That's lend-lease and reverse lend-lease
To Britain and the Mediterranean area
(to October 1, 1944)
$2,200,000,000 worth of guns and ammunition
$2,500,000,000 worth of aircraft and parts
$2,350,000,000 worth of tanks and motor vehicles
$270,000,000 worth of ships and landing craft
$3,250,000,000 worth of industrial materials & products
$2,950,000,000 worth of food & agricultural products
Shipped as lend-lease aid .....
to the U.S.S.R.
11,800 planes
11,800 planes
5,700 tanks
265,000 trucks
90,000 other vehicles
275,000 tons of explosives
9,700,000 pairs of army boots
1,125,000 tons of petroleum products
1,950,000 tons of steel
Had been sent by us before October, 1944
To Australia, New Zealand, India, China,
(to October 1, 1944)
For the war against the Japanese:
Guns, shells $520,000,000
Planes, parts $300,000,000
Tanks, trucks $600,000,000
Ships, barges $45,000,000
Raw materials, tools $885,000,000
Food $150,000,000
What do we get out of it?
Think it over Millions of Germans and Japanese will never fight against us because they have been killed or captured by our allies with the aid of lend-lease supplies
And lend-lease is a two way deal in other ways
For instance: one third of all the equipment and supplies required by our armed forces in Britain during the six months before the invasion were supplied by the British were supplied by the British as reverse lend-lease without payment by us.
3,800,000 ship tons of cargo space were saved by this help to us ...
This was a Nazi munitions factory
Thousands of Chinese peasants built this B-29 base with their bare hands
90% of all the food required by our armed forces in Australia and New Zealand has been supplied by these counties as reverse lend-lease without payment by us.
How will it all be settled after the war?
Can we settle up for lend-lease as if it were a loan of money?
Well ...
Can you weigh
Courage
Sacrifice
Destruction
Human Lives
Against
Pounds
Dollars?
Every third house in Britain has been damaged or destroyed by enemy bombs...
In three years, the Russians have killed or captured 7,800,000 Germans.
This has cost Russia 5,300,000 soldiers killed, captured, missing.
We shall win final victory far sooner and the cost in lives will be far less becuase we have learned to work together ... As free peoples ... for out mutual benefit.
And Afterwards:
According to our lend-lease agreements with our allies the final settlement between us for lend-lease and reverse lend-lease must help to provide for:
Better business between countries
A better chance for steady jobs for you when you come back
A better chance that the peace you fought for will stick so your sons won't have to do it all over again
War department
Washington 25, D. C. • 15 December 1944
(A. G. 461 (18 Oct 44).)
DISTRIBUTION: AAF(10); AGF(10); ASF(2), T of Opns(10), AAF C(10); Arm & Sv Bd(10); Def C(10); S Div ASF(10); Tech Sv(10), PC&S(5), PE(50), GH(10), RH(10); Conv H (10), Sch(10), ASTU (10), ROTC(5); Tng C(10); Rehab C(10), Redist Sta (10); A(3); CHQ(3); D(3); B(3); R(3), Bn(2); C(2);AF(3); W(3); G(3); S(2); F (2).
Additional copies may be requisitioned in accordance with Cir. 264, WD; 1944 in sufficient quantities to bring information contained to attention of all military personnel on a basis not to exceed one (1) copy per ten (10) individuals.
For explanation of symbols, see FM 21-6.
War Department pamphlet No. 20-13
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