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The terms of the lend lease agreement meant that Britain only had to pay for the equipment it kept after the war. So in some cases they were pushing aircraft of
by AsmaraHolding 3mo ago
The terms of the lend lease agreement meant that Britain only had to pay for the equipment it kept after the war. So in some cases they were pushing aircraft of the deck of carriers into the sea so they didn’t have to pay for them.
- hydrogen7800 3mo agoSpitfires were British planes, so not part of the American lend lease program. Maybe if they were build with American loans, though?
- AsmaraHolding 3mo agoSorry, I wasn’t meaning to say that they were spitfires in particular that they pushed into the sea. I believe they were actually F4U Corsairs in that case.
- kryogen1c 3mo ago>in some cases they were pushing aircraft of the deck of carriers into the sea so they didn’t have to pay You may be shocked to learn that practices such as this exist in the modern US military as well.