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lend-lease supplies and equipment lend-lease vehicles A group of men carry disassembled American lend-lease jeep parts up a dirt slope along the Burma Road, with forested hills in the background during World War II.
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lend-lease supplies and equipment Lend-lease supplies and equipment for Free French forces in Casablanca, French Morocco (now Morocco), April 13, 1943.

lend-lease

United States [1941]
Also known as: Lend-Lease Act
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lend-lease, system by which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt had committed the United States in June 1940 to materially aiding the opponents of fascism, but, under existing U.S. law, the United Kingdom had to pay for its growing arms purchases from the United States with cash, popularly known as cash-and-carry....

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