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Persian train

It was a long time ago…

March 1943. "American and British engineers taking time out for a smoke. They are standing on an American locomotive somewhere in Iran."

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[Photo: Shorpy/Nick Parrino for the Office of War Information]

I'm guessing the Yank is the one on the right. It's the teeth…

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    Martin Adamson

    Main job: providing the USSR with weapons. Iranian railways had been in a very poor state in the 1930s, were very rapidly upgraded in 1941-1942 to avoid the Murmansk convoys and the very rickety Trans-Siberian.

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