By:
vivian
on sábado, junho 20, 2015
ourpresidents:
Have you heard of the Lend Lease Bill that was signed on this day, March 11, 1941? It was crucial to the Allied defense supply during World War II.
Months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Winston Churchill, the leader of Great Britain, stating that by June of that year England would no longer be able to pay for the supplies and arms the United States had been providing in the battle against Germany.
Learn how a garden hose and fire analogy helped FDR pass the Lend Lease Bill.
Images
An African American worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill.
“Cases of T.N.T. gunpowder shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel 100 feet underground dug out of solid rock, in western England. The staff here work 24 hours a day handling lend-lease materials arriving from the U.S.”
“ Lend-Lease twin-engine bombers are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port from a lighter alongside. They are bound for distant allied ports.” Archivist note: These appear to be American A-20 “Havoc” attack bombers, known as the “Boston” in RAF service.“
“English girl members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service move armfuls of American rifles just arrived from the United States under lend-lease."
"Fitters are at work assembling an American light tank which has just arrived at an English ordnance depot from the US as part of a lend-lease shipment.” Archivist note: This is an American M2A4 light tank.“
from the FDR Library
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