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Rich
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Rich...you really must read more history.
Until 1940, the US Neutrality Act called on any country at war to purchase materials and take them away, literally cash and carry.
In that year FDR passed the Lend Lease Act. Countries at war (that the US approved of) were given tanks guns etc free of charge.
The result, by 1944 the British Armour Corp was made up 90% of US Sherman tanks, RAF Coastal Command was made up 80% of US Liberator bombers. Several groups of RAF Bomber Command were made up of US Flying Fortresses. The British merchant ships that had been lost to U Boats were replaced by US Liberty ships. This just scratches the surface.
This is in addition to the material the US gave to the Soviets and other Allied powers.
ALL OF IT FREE OF CHARGE
Neither the US or Britain could have won the war without the other. Of course both of them would have totally screwed without Canada.![]()
That's why the US charged us over $1075,000,000 for goods that were on route at the end of the war, that debt was finally repaid in Dec2006
And you've forgotten the enormous benefit to the US of reverse Lend-Lease The UK supplied extensive material assistance to US forces stationed in Europe, for example the USAAF was supplied with hundreds of Spitfire MkV and MKVIII fighter aircraft.
In fact the US had more from Kiwi land than it gave
Yes let's cover the benefits to the benefactorWe'll cover the benefits to Britain from the post-war US Marshall Plan in our next lesson.
The Marshall Plan aid was mostly used for the purchase of goods from the United States.
