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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (March 1941). House of Representatives bill # 1776, p.1. Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (Pub. L. 77–11, H.R. 1776, 55 Stat. 31, enacted March 11, 1941), [1] [2] was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the ...
These weapons were supplied under lend-lease or bought outright. Tank / tank destroyer guns used by the British included the 37 mm M5/M6 gun ( General Stuart and General Grant/Lee tanks), 75 mm M2 gun ( General Grant/Lee ), 75 mm M3 gun (General Grant/Lee and General Sherman ), 76 mm gun M1 (General Sherman) and 3-inch gun M7 ( 3-inch GMC M10 ).
HMS Chaser (D32/R306/A727) was an American-built Attacker-class escort carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.. Acquired by the United States Navy for conversion to a Bogue-class escort carrier; she was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as Chaser on 9 April 1943, under the Lend-Lease agreement.
The Studebaker US6 was a series of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6×6 and 5-ton 6×4 trucks manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation and REO Motor Car Company during World War II.The basic cargo version was designed to transport a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-short-ton (5,000 lb; 2,300 kg) cargo load over any type of terrain in any weather.
The total Lend-Lease aid provided during the Second World War had been estimated between $42–50 billion. [59]: 128 The Soviet Union received shipments in war materials, military equipment and other supplies worth of $12.5 billion, about a quarter of the American Lend-Lease aid provided to other Allied countries.
The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries ...
Due to its expenditure on war materiel, Britain lacked gold reserves and U.S. dollars [3] to pay for existing and future orders with Canadian industry. At the same time, following expansion, Canadian industry was dependent on British contracts and before the war had had a positive balance of trade with the UK, but with the establishment of Lend-Lease, the UK secured future orders with the US.
The United States Senate passed the Lend-Lease bill by a vote of 60–31. [14] Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Hugh Mulcahy became the first major league baseball player to be conscripted in the Selective Service draft. He served in the Pacific Theater, winning the Bronze Star in the Leyte campaign. [15] German submarine U-204 was commissioned.