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Wendell Willkie Signing an Agreement Allowing the USA to use British Naval Bases in Return for Destroyers, 1941. Second World War. 'In exchange [for US aid short of boots on the ground], Winston Churchill signed over to the United States, bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the West Indies...[and as a result,] there arrived the aircraft, the ammunition, the machines and tools with which to finish the job'. From "Time To Remember - Operation Barbarossa", 1941 (Reel 1); documentary film about events of 1941, on the Eastern Front and at Pearl Harbour.