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IN the first year of WW2 in 1940 Great Britain requested 50 US. destroyers (naval vessels), they needed to fight against Germanys submarine attacks. In return Great Britain agreed to give the UNited states a 99 year lease to a string of naval bases extending from the new found land to the Caribean.

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