Detailing other aid under the lend-lease programme President Roosevelt said that "training of 7,000 British pilots in our schools is under way, Valuable information is being communicated and other material assistance is being rendered in mounting benefit to the Democracies.
"No one can appraise what effect the delivery of these supplies (material shipped to Britain after Dunkirk) had upon successful British resistance in the summer and autumn of 1940 when they were fighting airist such terrific odds.
Allied ships are being repaired and equipped by us to protect them from mines and are being armed by us to protect them as much as possible from
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