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This Day In History, September 16th, 2021 – “Protect The Convoys”



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It was just 80 years ago today, September 16, 1941, when the US Marine Department announced that the US Navy’s Atlantic Fleet would protect all Convoys delivering Lend Lease materials to Europe. What exactly did that mean? If any German U-Boat attacked a convoy of Lend Lease aid to Great Britain that was protected by the US Navy, they were authorized to shoot back and sink that German U-Boat.

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