| ID: | 9475 |
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| Entry Text: | Greenberg, Daniel S. "U.S. Destroyers for British Bases: Fifty Old Ships Go to War." USNIP, 88 (November 1962): 70-83. Summer 1940; Churchill requested aid, especially destroyers; 11 had been lost in recent weeks; Roosevelt finally agreed; major change in U.S. policy. |