[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

[Dennis DuVall]

Lend-leased war material is like lending chewing gum gum.  You don’t really want it back afterwards…..  

Dennis DuVall, W7QHO

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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 10:15 AM, Brian Harrison <briankn4r at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Very interesting! I collect references like these, would appreciate any others (off-list)
> 
> Here’s another interesting one, from p 343 of the book “Kamikaze Hunters” by Will Iredale, about the British Navy fighting in the Pacific 1945
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> which says:
> 
> …
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> just a week after the end of the war, the American Congress abruptly shut the door on lend-Lease, leaving Britain with a bill of millions.  The British government had to return Lend-Lease aircraft, buy them in dollars or destroy them.
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> Around 1,000 Avengers and Corsairs which had formed the strike force of the Royal Navy’s most powerful fighting fleet in history were take out to sea on carriers and dumped over the side, where they lie today off the Australian coast.
> 
> brian
> kn4r
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