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Industrial-grade generosity: British warship repair and lend-lease in 1941 / Williamson, Corbin

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The conventional view of Lend-Lease holds that the program provided little aid to Britain in 1941, was inefficiently administered, and lacked support in the U.S. military. An examination of the repairs performed on British warships in U.S. shipyards in 1941 under Lend-Lease demonstrates that these repairs materially contributed to the Royal Navy’s ability to sustain the global war at sea. Repair work in American shipyards played a significant role in ending a growing repair crisis within the Royal Navy. Furthermore, careful bureaucratic coordination between the two navies maximized the impact of American repair work. The repair work was accelerated by the U.S. Navy’s diversion of industrial resources from American shipbuilding to repair British warships.

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Industrial - Grade Generosity ; British Warship Repair ; Lend-Lease in 1941

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Mediterranean Marines: the Challenges of Forward Deployment, 1948–1958 / Williamson, Corbin

Williamson, Corbin	Journal Article
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The experience of Marine battalions rotated through the Mediterranean in the early Cold War illustrates the challenges of forward deployment, which became an increasingly common experience for the American military due to the militarization of containment. Examining the first ten years of these deployments shows how the Marine Corps worked to overcome some of these challenges while others remained intractable. The deployments reflected the broader contours of American defense policy: growing forward deployments as Truman’s containment of the Soviet Union came to rely more on military power, the novel operational demands of regularly training with allies, the subordination of secondary activities to support operations in Korea, and the economizing effects of the New Look.

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Mediterranean Marines ; Challenges of Forward Deployment ; 1948–1958

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