These were sometimes called lend-lease bases but were under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
More American help came in the form of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in September 1940.
Lend-Lease, a successor agreement loosely modeled on the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
The entire peninsula was leased to the United States in 1940 for the construction of a naval base under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
The airfield has its origin in the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Great Britain and the United States.
Three entered Royal Navy service in 1940 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement as part of the Town class.
Hunt was one of the 50 overage ships exchanged with the British in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
She decommissioned on 23 September and was transferred to Great Britain as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
On 2 September 1940, the Destroyers for Bases Agreement was completed.
Under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, the first United States troops arrived in Newfoundland on 29 January 1941.