Talk:British Purchasing Commission

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Not Just Airplanes

According to my next door neighbor who worked there, the Purchasing Commission was busy implementing the Lend-Lease Plan by commissioning the purchase of everything under the sun, especially airplanes, ships, lifeboats, lifeboat divots, tanks, machine guns, "anything iron or steel that looked like a boat or could be made into one".

Judge James F. Tierney's born-in-Scotland grandmother got him this plum of a $35-a-week job while he attended law school at night -- training exploited when superiors appointed him the Documentation Officer in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial of IG Farben after the war.

Hope others with better sources can enrich the article. Thanks, all. Jerry-va (talk) 21:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Payment

Prior to the introduction of Lend-lease the UK had paid £500,000,000 ($2 billion USD) to the US for aircraft. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.252.151 (talk) 12:11, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're wrong and just picked those figures out of the air. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.32.37.132 (talk) 14:01, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"British aircraft orders, which have long since passed the $1,200,000,000 mark, cover just about every usable military type available ..." - from a 1940 issue of Flight here: [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 15:49, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]