I saw this for myself, when I was a college student working in a gold mine, in Nome, Alaska in the Fifties.
The Mining Company had its offices in what had been a Soviet airport during the War. The Russian lettering was still visible over the doors. Airplanes were built in California and Texas, in huge numbers, and then flown to this airport, and turned over to Soviet pilots. Who used them in their war with the Nazis.
How they got the oil for this war, I have no idea. Oil was still a problem in the Fifties, and acres were littered with empty oil drums. Later, oil was found, and a lot of it - in Alaska and the Soviet Union, and pipelines were built to transport it. But that was in the Sixties, twenty years later.
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