A critical re-examination of the conduct and outcome of Anglo-American wartime aircraft supply diplomacyThrough a series of case studies, Gavin J. Bailey reveals new details of how Britain used American aircraft and integrates this with broader British statecraft and strategy. He challenges conceptions that Britain was strategically reliant on the US and reveals a complicated, asymmetrical dependency between the wartime allies.Aircraft were at the heart of British supply diplomacy with the United States in the Second World War and were at the forefront of the Roosevelt administration's policy of aiding the Anglo-French alliance against Germany. They were the largest item in British purchasing in the US in 1940, a key consideration in the Lend-Lease of 1941 and a major component of several wartime conferences between Churchill and Roosevelt.
By 1942 Britain had become dependent on American supplies. Warren Kimball1
It was clear that we depended heavily on American aircraft, but the rate of
delivery often proved to be disappointing. Lord Tedder2 These statements, made
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This book aims to enhance our understanding of the Anglo-American alliance by examining the origins of the alliance during the Second World War. It presents a case study of how power is distributed in British society, and who makes the political decisions that decisively shape the society and world in which we live.
NATO has always been led by American generals and admiralsliby American
military and industrial power. As even the conservative Daily Telegraph pointed
out in 1956: 'NATO is concentrating the power to take life and death decisions
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