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The "Destroyer Deal" sees Britain cede a number of bases in the Western Hemisphere to the United States in return for 50 obsolescent destroyers. The real value of the deal is that it demonstrated American support for the United Kingdom
Operation Sea Lion, the German invasion of Britain, set for 21 September