| Summary/Abstract |
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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