16h 27min, sep 2, 1940 y - Destroyers for bases agreement
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced to Congress on 3rd September, 1940, that a deal had been agreed between the United States and Great Britain exchanging fifty U.S. Navy Destroyers for British overseas naval and air bases.
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