In December, she was detached and ordered to Key West, Florida, where she provided training services into May 1941, then returned to New London to prepare for transfer under the terms of the lend-lease agreement.

He voted to keep an arms embargo in place, but voted for the lend-lease agreement with the British in 1941 and to re-instate Selective Service in 1940 in preparation for military conscription of civilian men.

As few combat-capable aircraft were available at home and Britain was unable to help, New Zealand turned to the United States and signed a lend-lease agreement.

Nine days later, however, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of the lend-lease agreement in return for another Flower-class corvette then under construction in Canada.

On 9 March 1942, she was decommissioned and transferred to the United Kingdom under the lend-lease agreement.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had already strained the sinews of neutrality by supplying Britain with money and arms under the 'lend-lease' agreement.

Transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of the lend-lease agreement on 2 June 1943; and commissioned in the Royal Navy that same day.

At the same time, Canada produced 90 additional vessels for the American government which were turned over to the British Merchant Navy under a lend-lease agreement.

Following the outbreak of World War II and America's entry into the war, Pan Kraft was assigned a delivery of military equipment to the Soviet Union under the US-Soviet lend-lease agreement.

By the lend-lease agreement with United States, the Soviet Union was not allowed to use P-63s against Germany; they were given only to be used in the eventual battle with Japan.