Lot 11602-22

Persian Corridor – British and American Lend-Lease supplies transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. Supplies for Russia via Persian Gulf and Trans-Iranian Railway. Allied war supplies are pouring into Russia in ever increasing quantities via Bandar Shahpour (now Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni ) and the Trans-Iranian Railway. Transported across salt marsh and desert to Ahwaz road and rail convoys there join the flow of supplies proceeding up river from Khurramshahr (now Khorramshahr) and Bushiro, all thence continuing northwards to the U.S.S.R. Shown: A Russian driver at the wheel of a lorry just taken over which he will drive for eight days in convoy northwards to Russia loaded with Allied supplies. Photographed by Nick Parrino, March 1943. Office of War Information Photograph, 29919-E. (2016/02/19)

Date

1943-03

Photographer / author

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

2,308 × 1,824 pixels

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