Comments by "Franceyne Ireland" (@franceyneireland1633) on "Jake Broe"
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The Canadians also supplied the Soviets. Which included 125 Soviet vessels that were repaired in the Canadian ports in the province of BC, which included provisions of sailors clothes, deck and engine room stores. Gifted the Russians the icebreaker Montcalm in order for the Soviets to keep the ports of Murmansk and Archangel open for deliveries from the western Allies. Plus 1,388 Valentine tanks (made in Angus Works in Quebec initially were being made for the UK); 1,348 weapons carriers Canadian made in Oshawa (CMP) trucks modified to operate under -40F including the lorry a 3 ton 4x4; six pounder anti-tank portee, designed to carry a wheeled gun that can be fired from the vehicle or on the ground; 10 “Lake” class mine sweepers; 1,051 Hurricane aircraft fighters (originally produced in Ontario Canada for the UK) and 29 radar sets. 37,286 tons of aluminum. 10,000 tons of cordite, and 27,000 tons of copper.
Non war materials included: 882,482 tons of steel rails, 1,562 flatcar units, 3 complete plants of machine tools, 500 lathes, shapers and planers plus 3 copies of unique Canadian armoured snowmobiles. Agricultural aid of 9 million bushels of wheat to eighty tons of brome grass seed, which continued after the war in Europe ended to September 1945 of 28,000 tons of flour.
Fifty-six per cent, of all craft delivered to the Soviet Union from North American (US and Canada) were flown via the Alaska-Siberia route, thru airports in western Canada. A plant in Great Falls, Montana supplied the aircraft with the Soviet red star. By Sept 1942 a US Air Transport Command Head quarters was established in an airport Edmonton Alberta Canada, on 23 Sept 1943 that airport handled 860 different aircraft in a single day! Such as P-40 Warhawk, P-39 Aircobra P63 Kingcobra fighters, the A-20 and B-25 bombers as well as the C-47 Skytrain transports.
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What about Canada joining the joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) a UK -led Northern European multi-national military partnership designed for rapid response and expeditionary operations. It consists of the UK, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and the Netherlands (who are all aware of who Russia is and it's intentions.. It has been fully operational since June 2018. Can act independently in its own right, but it can also be deployed in support of NATO or other cooperative ventures, for example as part of a United Nations.
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@bigjobs5000 Many of men who joined the services either their parents or grandparents immigrated from the UK, so they had extended family in the UK. I'm on the coast of BC, pilots were trained in WW2 on Vancouver Island too but I don't know what type of aircraft. The Prairies of Canada even today has better streaks than the coast but the coast has better fish. Canada was on ratios too, but no where near like that of the UK such as gasoline, per person 1 cup sugar, 2 ounces tea, 8 ounces coffee, butter 4 ounces, meat less 5 ounces per day, plus beer and wine. but I don't know if that was for civilians. If your dad was single he likely noticed lots of females as by 1942-43 most of the men were over seas, and a lot of the single women worked building armaments including bombs.
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One day after talks broke down with Britain and France with the Soviet Union. The Soviets and Germans signed an agreement on August 23 1939 of a nonaggression pact for 10 years. This Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ( also known as Hitler-Stalin Pact & Nazi-Soviet Alliance). Which provided a written guarantee of peace by each party towards the other and a commitment that declared that neither government would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other. This treaty also included a second supplementary protocol, a secret protocol, signed 28 Sept 1939 to divide Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence although there was rumours and suspicion, the knowledge of these agreements were discovered during the Nuremberg trials. Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ordered the filming of the most important papers. The work was carried out by Paul Otto Schmidt, the chief interpreter of the Reich Foreign Office. Karl von Loesch, Schmidt's assistant, placed the films into boxes and buried them. Thus, these films survived the destruction of many important Foreign Office records, which were eventually published in 1947.
Germany invaded Poland Sept 1 1939. Stalin invaded Poland on Sept 17, 1939, ( only one day after the Soviet-Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol.) The secret protocol allowed for exchanged of Soviet and German nationals within their occupied zones of Poland. Plus during the invasion of Poland, the Germans had taken control of the Lublin Voivodeship and eastern Warsaw Voivodeship and according to the Pact was to be in the Soviert sphere, the Germany compensated the Soviets by transferring Lithuania to the Soviets except for a small area referred to as the “Lithuania Strip” on the left bank of the Sesupe River.
The new border between German-Soviet influence was confirmed by the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty, which defined the borders of the Soviets in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.
In Feb 11 1940 The German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, the Soviet Union would send Germany 650 million Reichsmarks in raw materials in exchange for 650 million Reichsmark in machinery, manufactured goods and technology. In 1939 Soviets signed a Mutual Assistance Treaty with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, where the parties respect each other's sovereignty and independence but allowed the Soviets to establish military bases on their territories but once the bases were established the bases facilitated a full scale Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries. In March 1940 Karelia and Salla regions in Finland were annexed by Stalin, followed by the annexation parts of Romania and Bukovina in 1940. In Jan 10 1941 Germany renounced it's claims to the portion of Lithuania in return for a Soviet payment of a sum agreed upon by the two countries.
On June 22 1941, Hitler ordered Operation Barbarossa (the expansion of Germany into Eastern Europe) the pact was then broken. WW2 started by the invasion and conquering of independent countries. My personal opinion due to the unsavory greedy pact between the Nazis and Soviets to invade and divide up between them independent countries in Europe, both Nazi Germany and the Soviets started WW2. I have trouble understanding how the other Allies allowed Stalin to continue to occupy those countries, unless economically it was not possible to do otherwise.
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