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ADF Serials Message Board > RAAF Aircraft - Royal Australian Air Force > 1946 Australian Lend-lease Settlement |
Posted by: bauple58 May 23 2023, 10:40 AM |
Recent scholarship (link below) reveals that although Australia had hoped to retain the bulk of its Lend-Lease combat aircraft, lingering enmities (between the US and Australia) combined with federal election pressures to ensure their exclusion from the mid-1946 settlement agreement - and subsequent destruction. http://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12894 |