Lend-Lease Memorial, Griffin Park

Alaska-Siberia Lend-Lease Memorial, Griffin Park, Fairbanks, Alaska. Sculpture honors American and Russian aviators and troops responsible for ferrying more than 8,000 American-built warplanes from the Midwest through Canada to Fairbanks during World War II. Alaska was the exchange point between the United States and Soviet Union from 1942 to 1945.