<b>Railroad through Iran helps speed U.S. war supplies to the Russian front.</b><br><i>In the cab of an Iranian railroad engine are an American, a Russian and a British engineer — railroad men of three nations cooperating to keep the supplies moving.</i><br>To speed the flow of military supplies to Russia under the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease" class="extiw" title="en:Lend-Lease">lend-lease program</a>, American experts have taken over operations of the Persian State Railway, which crosses the mountains and deserts of Iran. Over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Iranian_Railway" class="extiw" title="en:Trans-Iranian Railway">this 1400-mile railroad</a>, locomotives operated and serviced for most part by Americans haul great quantities of guns, ammunition and other lend-lease supples from Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf to Soviet military bases near the Caspian Sea.<br><small>Approved by apropriate U.S. authority. Not for use in British Isles or Western hemisphere.</small>
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