Post by bauple58 on May 23, 2023 12:55:56 GMT 12
Recent scholarship (link below) reveals that although Australia had hoped to retain the bulk of its Lend-Lease combat aircraft, lingering enmities (between the US and Australia) combined with federal election pressures to ensure their exclusion from the mid-1946 settlement agreement - and subsequent destruction. Settlements in Australia and New Zealand were subject to similar influences, both nations having been punished by the title retention clause which guaranteed ongoing US ownership of all unpurchased Lend-Lease aircraft.
doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12894
doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12894