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Tuesday, 4 June 2019

Soviet Union returning leased American warships according to the Dutch newspaper Het vrije volk dated 2 July 1955

An item reported that the Soviet Union returned at Kiel a day earlier 13 torpedo boats and corvette which she had leased from the USA (Lend-Lease Act dated 11 March 1941.(1)

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1. This act made it possible for the USA to supply material aid in the beginning of the Second World War without giving up her neutrality. The act was finally terminated on 2 September 1945.