# U.S. ARMY IN IRAN DURING WWII LEND-LEASE PERSIAN CORRIDOR SUPPLY OPERATIONS 28674

This lengthy silent film (which likely was intended to be narrated by whoever presented it) was prepared by the Persian Gulf Command for Allied and Soviet leadership (and features both Russian and English intertities). It shows the PGC's activities in Iran during the Second World War. If you take a good look at this film, you'll get an idea of how vast the Allied supply effort to the Soviets really was — as literally hundreds of millions of dollars of aircraft, tanks, and various supplies are shown being offloaded in Iran and hastily shipped north to the Eastern front. At this time Iran was used as a bridge for Lend-Lease supplies to reach the embattled Soviet Union. At :37, the film starts with an overview of operations at the port of Khorramshahr, Iran on the Persian Gulf. Khorramshahr is an inland port city located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Abadan. The city extends to the right bank of the Shatt Al Arab waterway near its confluence with the Haffar arm of the Karun river. Here you will see material of every description being unloaded, from trucks to cranes, tanks, aircraft, electric cable, oil drums, cans of ham, Ford tractors, and more. At 11:14 the second Persian port of Bandar Shahpur is shown. At 13:32 , trucks are shown being assembled in the field and at 20:18 a marshaling yard is seen. Soviet officers are seen at 22:35 accepting some of these trucks. At 25:19 trucks head north towards the Soviet Union. At 28:00 the enormous supply dump at…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/28674PersianGulfOperationsMosVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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