Lend lease program

Started by Forty Rod, December 10, 2012, 09:45:10 AM

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Forty Rod

Just saw this mentioned on the Aircraft thread.

Lend means you get it back.

Lease means you get paid for it and then get it back.

Did anyone we gave LL stuff to ever do either?

Just curious and too lazy to look it up myself.
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Delmonico

I am not sure either, i know there are Enfields floating around made by Savage with US Property on them, but not sure how they got back, may have been purchased as surplus.


Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

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The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Delmonico

Oh and the Lend Lease part was a scam from the beginning, it involved International Law and the fact we claimed to be neutral at the time.   ;)
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Sir Charles deMouton-Black

FDR never intended to get paid, nor have anything recovered.  The name "lend lease" was intended to slide it past a congress, and the public, that were not enthusiastic about getting into a war in Europe.
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Four-Eyed Buck

Yep, he was "lending a garden hose" to his neighbor to help put out a fire ::)
I might be slow, but I'm mostly accurate.....

litl rooster

Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on December 10, 2012, 01:03:53 PM
Yep, he was "lending a garden hose" to his neighbor to help put out a fire ::)


Obama doing the same thing with the kool aid drinkers
Mathew 5.9

litl rooster

what is the difference between the Victory models and the Lend lease?
Mathew 5.9

St. George

The 'Victory Model' is the parkerized S&W in .38 Special - .38 S&W to Allies.

'Lend Lease' was the program that 'lent' military supplies and equipment to the Allies - including Destroyers and M4 Shermans.

Those S&Ws were often a part of that issue.

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WaddWatsonEllis

Hi,

I think we got possession of some of the Caribbean Islands that way .... according to Jimmy Buffet and Herman Wouk ....

TTFN,
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Sir Charles deMouton-Black

The US received four bases in Newfoundland in return for 50 obsolete "four stacker" destroyers
NCOWS #1154, SCORRS, STORM, BROW, 1860 Henry, Dirty Rat 502, CHINOOK COUNTRY
THE SUBLYME & HOLY ORDER OF THE SOOT (SHOTS)
Those who are no longer ignorant of History may relive it,
without the Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
With apologies to George Santayana & W. S. Churchill

"As Mark Twain once put it, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

litl rooster

Quote from: St. George on December 10, 2012, 06:27:15 PM
The 'Victory Model' is the parkerized S&W in .38 Special - .38 S&W to Allies.

'Lend Lease' was the program that 'lent' military supplies and equipment to the Allies - including Destroyers and M4 Shermans.

Those S&Ws were often a part of that issue.

Scouts Out!

Thanks... I thought there was other items besides the S&W's that were considered Victory.

Sir Charles that's a pretty fair trade.  ::)
Mathew 5.9

Four-Eyed Buck

They got the earlier M-3 Grants as well, plus the M-2 Stewarts. Then there was the civilian arms that were sent over there for the "Home Guard" ::)
I might be slow, but I'm mostly accurate.....

Sir Charles deMouton-Black

Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on December 10, 2012, 08:54:50 PM
They got the earlier M-3 Grants as well, plus the M-2 Stewarts. Then there was the civilian arms that were sent over there for the "Home Guard" ::)

Canada built it's sole domestically designed tank, the RAM, from M-3 Grant hulls and drive train with our own turret mounting the British 6 pounder AT gun.  That is the same gun that Americans adopted, calling it the 57mm.  By the time our army hit the beaches in Sicily the M-4 Sherman was adopted by our armoured corps.  Most of the Rams had been used in training up to then, and after most became 25 pdr SP carriages, or APCs (Kangaroos)


Before the Ram, Canada built about 1600 British designed Valentine tanks that were shipped to Russia.  So we had our own version of lend-lease
NCOWS #1154, SCORRS, STORM, BROW, 1860 Henry, Dirty Rat 502, CHINOOK COUNTRY
THE SUBLYME & HOLY ORDER OF THE SOOT (SHOTS)
Those who are no longer ignorant of History may relive it,
without the Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
With apologies to George Santayana & W. S. Churchill

"As Mark Twain once put it, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

Forty Rod

Quote from: Four-Eyed Buck on December 10, 2012, 08:54:50 PM
They got the earlier M-3 Grants as well, plus the M-2 Stewarts. Then there was the civilian arms that were sent over there for the "Home Guard" ::)

The majority of which were either dumped in the ocean or crushed after the war.  Very few were returned to the U. S. CIVILIANS who gave them out of concern for the citizens of the British Isles who had their backs to the wall.

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litl rooster

Quote from: Forty Rod on December 11, 2012, 09:58:51 AM
You're sure welcome, think nothing of it.




Your starting to sound like me.

and they have the nerve to ask for back taxes
Mathew 5.9

Steel Horse Bailey

Quote from: litl rooster on December 23, 2012, 12:50:13 PM

Your starting to sound like me.

and they have the nerve to ask for back taxes


True!  That's the way SO MANY folks are these days.  I'm talking about many of our younger generation as well as other Nations.

Their rationale is "Well, I   (or we) wasn't there (or alive) then.  Those old things (styles, agreements, traditions, laws, or whatever)  don't mean anything any more!

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WaddWatsonEllis

Hi,

I think we gave Gander and Goose Bay AFB back to the Canadians when turboprops and long distance aircraft became the norm ...

We didn't need them any more as refueling bases ... or do we keep a the bases going with a minimum staffing?
My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
NCOWS #3403

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