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USA Lend Lease Aid Numbers
U.S. Lend Lease Aid
Belgium - 148,394,457.76 Bolivia - 5,633,989.02 British Empire - 31,267,240,530.63 Brazil - 332,545,226.43 Chile - 21,817,478.16 China - 1,548,794,965.99 Colombia - 7,809,732.58 Costa Rica - 155,022.73 Cuba - 5,739,133.33 Czechoslovakia - 413,398.78 Dominican Republic - 1,610,590.38 Ecuador - 7,063,079.96 Egypt - 1,019,169.14 El Salvador - 892,358.28 Ethiopia - 5,151,163.25 France - 3,207,608,188.75 Greece - 75,475,880.30 Guatemala - 1,819,403.19 Haiti - 1,449,096.40 Honduras - 732,358.11 Iceland - 4,795,027.90 Iran - 4,795,092.50 Iraq - 4,144.14 Liberia - 6,408,240.13 Mexico - 36,287,010.67 Netherlands - 230,127,717.63 Nicaragua - 872,841.73 Norway - 51,524,124.36 Panama - 83,555.92 Paraguay - 1,933,302.00 Peru - 18,525,771.19 Poland - 16,934,163.60 Saudi Arabia - 17,417,878.70 Soviet Union - 11,260,343,603.02 Turkey - 26,640,031.50 Uraguay - 7,148,610.13 Venezuela - 4,336,079.35 Yugoslavia 32,026,355.58 Payments To All Nations - 48,361,568,773.22 Other Expenditures - 2,578,827,000.00* Grand Total - 50,940,395,773.22# Source - "Dirty Little Secrets Of WWII", written by James F. Dunnigan & Albert A. Nofi * "Other Expenditures" includes materials not charged to the recipient nations, including goods lost in shipment{ships sunk by submarines ect...}, items consumed by the US forces, and administrative costs. # In terms of 1994 dollars{when the book i used for the source for the numbers was published}, the almost 51 billion spent during the war would be worth over 600 billion dollars.
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War has gotten more expensive
That was a world war... I wonder how that compares to The Iraq war numbers today taking into account inflation.?
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Wonder how many of those beneficiaries ever repaid?
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Ive never been able to find out exact numbers but i have heard/read many times that "Most" was forgiven.
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I believe Britian was the only country to pay anything back.
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