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Most
of field telephone supplies to the Red Army during WWII have
been arranged by Amtorg Trading, a New York corporation with
100-percent USSR capital. Field telephones purchased by
Amtorg have been modified to accommodate dry batteries of
USSR manufacture and carried Cyrillic letters all
over.
This
EE-8-B telephone is just a regular US Signal Corps unit
having no special modifications for use by the Red Army. It
was found in one of Russian Army depots near Moscow in 2011
which is sure evidence that some of true Lend-Lease supplies
of US-made field telephones took place back in
1944-1945.
WHD
(by carry bag) = 200 х 250 х 90 mm, weight of the
telephone with the bag and batteries - 4.5 kg.
Over
340,000 of EE-8 field telephones have been supplied to the
USSR by the Lend-Lease Act either separately or as part of
SCR-399 and SCR-499 mobile sets.
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