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Military logistics of World War II

  • Cash and carry (World War II)The first Neutrality Act passed in August 1935. It forbade selling implements of war to belligerent countries under any terms.
  • Operation PlutoIn early April 1942, Lord Louis Mountbatten approached Geoffrey Lloyd with a desperate question. Could an oil pipeline be laid across the English Channel?
  • Lend-LeaseThe 1930s began with one of the world's greatest economic depressions. The later recession of 1937, 1938 was also one of the worst of the 20th century.