on october 16,, 1944, there was a meeting in moscow with ambassador averill herrmann and the u.s. military mission chief major general john r dean, where he renewed his pledge to join the war against japan, and added that the soviet offensive operations could begin within two and a half to three months after the defeat of germany. with theperfectly strategic thinking of the u.s. joint chief of staff, and though it would not be formally codified until the altar conference the following year this timetable would serve as the basis for all military to military coordination between , and an immediate jump in lend lease deliveries of the soviet union. to launch an offensive so quickly after their forces defeated the nazis in europe, , thust tip off japanese prompting a primitive strike against the highly vulnerable to read siberian railroad, the red army would have to depend to a large degree on americans to secretly supply much of the food, fuel, war supplies, and even the trucks to move them both before and during the offensive. 18,days later, on october stalin presented a breathtaki