[higgmeister]

36 nations were recipients of Lend-Lease Loans. As far as I can learn, only Great Britain has finished repaying the loan in full with the 2% interest included, in 2006.

I don't know if anybody noticed that Great Britain gave us half of their vast empire during and after WWII.   I was stationed in the Azores for a couple of years.   Lajes Field in the Azores had been Great Britain's North Atlantic fuel depot and deep water port before WWII.

[Robert DeLong]

Did they actually give it yo us, or did they just allow us to build a base there? We have bases around the world, but we do not own the land. Two African Countries just booted the US out of bases we had there.

Departure of U.S. troops from Chad and Niger raises regional security concerns