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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
Thanks for spending those mega bux on our defence.
Since British military contracts saved the US from reverting to mud huts and cannibalism in 1939-41 (the British economy didn't really suffer the Second Depression of 1938, but the US economy flatlined, so that, for instance, Packard was going bankrupt until it got the contract to make Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in mid-1940), and since Britain was still subsidising the US economy with war-loan repayments until just a few years ago -- and we only needed the war loans because they'd taken all our gold and dollars in exchange for mostly pretty third-rate military equipment at top-dollar plus 50% prices as a deliberate strategic policy, and Lend-Lease wasn't free either, it all had to be paid for with interest -- and since Britain made free gifts to the US of secrets such as radar and the jet engine (all US radar and jet-engine development, with all that that implies for post-war civil and military aviation, derives from British designs), and since US Eighth and Ninth Air Forces operated from bases built at British expense, and protected by the RAF so they never had to worry about enemy attacks, and since their aircraft even used British-bought petrol... well, it was the least they could do, really.
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