Lend-Lease Act

65-694(4): American workers prepare a Lend-Lease food shipment, August 1942.

Despite opposition, on March 8, 1941, HR 1776, the Lend-Lease Act (subtitled “An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States”), passed through a final vote in the Senate. On March 11 the president signed it into law.

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