Aid from America: Lend-Lease food, London, England, 1941

ID: 421 ~ Source: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer ~ Creator: "[Aid from America: Lend-Lease food, London, England, 1941.]" Image.  From Imperial War Museums: Ministry of Information Second World War Official Collection. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205198736 (accessed July 11, 2018). ~ Date: 1941
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Smiling school children wave at the camera as they receive plates of bacon and eggs from America under the Lend-Lease program. The Lend-Lease program allowed America to supply nations deemed vital to the defense of the United States.

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By Alan Davies
"Rationing started, which would’ve made daily life quite tough. Just getting the food on the table, et cetera. But we were never—it never got to the point where we were gonna starve, I don’t think. And later on, of course, we got a lot of…