Lend-Lease
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Sep 14, 2026
Zach EastmanHOST
On December 7th, we are not involved with Europe.
Zach EastmanHOST
The extent that we are is the Lend-Lease Program to help Britain fight the Nazis because they are being bombarded in the Blitz.
Zach EastmanHOST
So I...
Zach EastmanHOST
What I found interesting was trying to examine this film under the lens of how much closer does it get? And also, how does it compare to another anti-Nazi comedy that came out at this exact time? Because To Be or Not To Be comes out in virtually the same beginning of the year timeframe of 1942.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
And then on May Day, there's a whole fleet of big planes.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
They copied a B-29 that we had left over there at Lend-Lease stuff.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
And they built a bunch of big airplanes.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
So suddenly you realize you really have to be careful here about what you tell the public.
George FriedmanGUEST
We did not come into World War II until the Germans declared war on us.
George FriedmanGUEST
We simply gave them an Lend-Lease.
George FriedmanGUEST
Now, remember that Lend-Lease had a clause in it that was secret, that if the British had to, uh, surrender to the Germans, the British fleet, the naval fleet, would sail to Canada and not be taken.
George FriedmanGUEST
Now, it's very important to understand that American strategy in the Cold War as well was based on control of the Atlantic.
George FriedmanGUEST
If the Russians cut the Atlantic pipeline, our troops in Europe could not be, uh, given logistics support, reinforced, or anything like that.
Tail DraggerHOST
The British figured out what the Navy couldn't.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm received Corsairs under Lend-Lease and their carrier aviation instructors went to work on the landing problem.
Tail DraggerHOST
The solution they developed was a curved approach.
Tail DraggerHOST
Instead of flying a straight-in final and losing sight of the deck behind that big cowl, Fleet Air Arm pilots held a constant gentle turn all the way to the wire, keeping the carrier deck visible around the side of the nose through the offset angle of the turn.
Tail DraggerHOST
In 1943, something clicked.
Tail DraggerHOST
He flew constantly on the Eastern Front against Soviet Yak fighters, LA fighters, later against American-supplied aircraft arriving through Lend-Lease.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Eastern Front was the largest air campaign in history.
Tail DraggerHOST
The scale of it is hard to comprehend.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
Item.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
During World War II, under the Lend-Lease Program, the United States sent to the Soviets more than $11 billion in aid, including 14,000 aircraft, nearly half a million tanks, and other military vehicles, more than 400 combat ships, and even half of the entire U.S. supply of uranium, which then was critically needed for the development of the atomic bomb.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
But fully one-third of all the Lend-Lease shipments during this period compromised industrial equipment, and supplies to be used for the development of the Russian economy after the war.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
And when the war did end, the lend-lease program continued to flow into the Soviet Union for over a year.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
As late as the end of 1946, Russia was still receiving 20-year credit terms at two-eighths percent interest, a far lower rate than returning GIs could obtain.
Tail DraggerHOST
The hurricane went on to fly in every theater of the war.
Tail DraggerHOST
North Africa, Malta where the pilots flew in conditions of almost continuous combat for months, the Eastern Front where thousands went to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Far East, against Japanese aircraft over Burma and Singapore.
Tail DraggerHOST
In North Africa, the hurricane evolved into a tank buster.
Ted RallHOST
But-
Robbie WestPANELIST
Well, FD- FDR was effect- uh, if Germany, if, if, if FDR was doing everything that he could through Lend-Lease to be a co-belligerent every step of the, in every meaningful sense of the word, short of asking Congress to declare war.
Jamarl ThomasHOST
True.
Robbie WestPANELIST
He wanted-
Brandon WeichertHOST
He basically outlines, he writes the history of how the Americans in the interwar years and during the first phase of World War II before we directly intervened.
Brandon WeichertHOST
we basically stripped the British empire and took it over with Lend-Lease.
Brandon WeichertHOST
Lend-Lease was predatory.
Brandon WeichertHOST
He kind of walks it through.
Brandon WeichertHOST
It's really, it's a really fascinating read and he actually makes the, cause he's British.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
There's nothing ambiguous about this at all.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
Back in March when they were debating the Lend-Lease Act, several – there had actually been a congressman.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
from Massachusetts, Tinkham, and also Senator Reynolds from North Carolina, I believe, who'd proposed amendments to try to exclude the Soviet Union from lend-lease aid.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
Those were defeated, mostly because the Democrats controlled Congress.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
So Hopkins has the Gallup poll.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
They did a public one where 54 percent of the U.S. public was opposed to aiding the Soviet Union against Hitler.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
Their own polls show that they have majority support in only 11 out of the 48 states, not including any of the key ones involved in Lend-Lease production or shipment, not Michigan, not California, not New York.
Sean McMeekinGUEST
There's no clear majority.
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