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applegrove

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3. Before the US joined WWII, Roosevelt had us factories building planes

Reply to KT2000 (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:50 AM

Aug 2016

in the US and rolling them across the border to Canada on a special airstrip that straddled the border, circumventing US law at the time that said the US was not allowed to build and fly fighters to Canada. Those fighters were used to train the RAF and CRAF pilots so those young men had a chance in the battle of Britain and beyond.

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