By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY Part IV: Trust but verify In four years of World War II, the United States supplied 14,798 combat aircraft to the Soviet Union. More than half (7,925) of the planes were flown over the Northwest Route across Canada and Alaska and accepted at Ladd Army Airfield in Fairbanks by Russian inspectors. Looking … Continue reading Alexander Dolitsky: In the uneasy alliance of U.S.-Soviet Lend-Lease agreement, America sent food to Russia