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March 11 – Lend Lease Act
by Darren Cole on March 11, 2011
!["American twin-engine bombers, provided by lend-lease"](http://blogs.archives.gov/todaysdocument/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/lend-lease-bombers-m.jpg ""American twin-engine bombers, provided by lend-lease"")
"American twin-engine bombers, provided by lend-lease, are shown being hoisted aboard ship in an unnamed American port." (ARC ID 196321); Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962
; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; National Archives and Records Administration.
Passed on March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”
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