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@HyperboreanWave @dubbub @Jean_Philippe_Micheaux @Elliptica @plotinus_enjoyer @BowsacNoodle Page 424:
>In addition to the 36,865 trucks and 6,823 jeeps delivered by June 30, 1942, between 25,000 and 30,000 had arrived by mid-November 1942, when the Soviets were preparing their counteroffensive to cut off Stalingrad-a mobile flanking maneuver which, according to Soviet sources, required the use of 27,000 trucks.
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>Small wonder that, as a German General Staff officer observed in a letter to wife airmailed home from Stalingrad on December 1, 1942. "50% of the motor vehicles in the new brigades being thrown against us are American manufactured."