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To: DavesM who wrote (11139)	11/22/2001 1:26:11 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

Well partly in a way yes, but not the way you mean it - i believe they were first crewed in part by canadian merchant marine and RCN, who being native to the Americas are clearly american ..... but you mean US nationals - no, i believe that would have been illegal under US law of the time ...... and btw, they were not 'given' by any stretch of the imagination - the US gained a number of military bases world-wide on the deal ... in Newfoundland, Bermuda, the Bahamas i recall but there were others I find it quite interesting hearing WWI and WWII history discussed online by US nationals, they become entirely different wars .... ditto US-México history, and all the rest too .... we get to find out how you write your schoolbooks You're not the DaveM from the old Winspear thread, are you, you've got an s in there ... well happy Thanksgiving anyway -g- ... cheers [edit] - Antilles and Guiana were the others - british-forces.com ... plus Roosevelt wanted dibs on the RN fleet ... there was more to it than that, as i recall .... WWII made the US rich, and impoverished Britain