alt Hacker NewsThe 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.
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hydrogen7800 • today at 2:00 PM
Spitfires were British planes, so not part of the American lend lease program. Maybe if they were build with American loans, though?
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>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.