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1941–1945 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY — THE DESK AND THE PLANT WERE SOUTH BEND'S)
The century's great war flow out of this county is counted, not atmosphered. Under contract from April 1941, Studebaker's South Bend plant built the US6 2½-ton truck from June 1941 to August 1945: 197,678 trucks built at South Bend (plus 22,204 identical trucks license-built by REO at Lansing — the license line of art-60-6, kept distinct), most of them for Lend-Lease, primarily for the Red Army; about 152,000 reached the Soviet Union on the fuller account, roughly three-quarters of production. The route is the row's own: completed trucks went by rail to West Coast ports, by ship to Iran, and overland through the Persian Corridor — hundreds of miles over mountain passes and desert — into the USSR; the first US6 trucks arrived in the Soviet Union in autumn 1941, and Soviet troops named the truck the “Studer.”
The echo after, printed as the record gives it: the design stayed in Russia when the flow stopped — copied in Soviet factories from 1942 (art-60-6) and ancestral to the postwar ZiL-151/157 and GAZ-51 lines built into the 1960s. The reverse flow of the other direction — goods or trucks into this county under any wartime programme — has no instance in the record reached, and none is claimed. Osceola's share of the US6 flow is labour and rail, not a desk: the plant, the contract and the proving ground were South Bend's; Penn Township men built and shipped in that economy, but no Lend-Lease desk, contract or shipment was seated in Osceola, and this article does not seat one.
Sources: Studebaker US6 records (Military Factory; Military Trader; Texas State Univ. Studebaker WWII thesis): 197,678 South Bend-built, June 1941–Aug. 1945; REO 22,204; Lend-Lease to USSR via Persian Corridor; first arrivals autumn 1941; c.152,000 to USSR (truck-encyclopedia account).