Gilman High School - Gilmanac Yearbook (Northeast Harbor, ME)

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4-as-sslLMAN-seaasasislgae li!-SCHOOLMQS as il' '35 'X' '35 95 '26 ii- 4 r it it 65 it -32' it 991943-Be -LENDHLEASE A POWERFUL UEAPON fcontinuedl The Australians make ner hospitals for us, and they re- pair our equipment. In this manner Australia returns what she receives from us under Lend-Lease. The American forces in New Caledonia are getting aid from the Fighting French, South Africa supplies naval aidg India makes uniformsg Belgium aids us in the Congo. China ships us raw materials. Lend-Lease aidibrour forces in the British Isles starts before the troops leave our ports because they are carried by British ships and conveyed by the British Navy. The British government pays the transportation costs of moving American soldiers in the Hritish Isles. Our soldiers are supplied, without cost, with arms, several hundred Spitfire planes and many field guns. Britain has provided us with over a million square yards of portable airfield runways and are supplying several 'thousand more. We have received supplies such as 15,000 bombs 70,000 rounds of 6-in. shells over 200 thousand anti-tank mines, electric 9 batteries hand grenades, parachutes, and many new hospitals. Almost all the bread for our soldiers is made from British flour under Lend-Lease, and they have agreed to sup- ply us with potatoes, fruits, vegetables, jam, and salt. Soon after Pearl Harbor she sent barrage 'balloons to our Vest Coast for defense apainst Jap attacks. Great Brit- ain has furnished us with specifications for her system of aircraft detection developed during a long period of bitter air warfare. The object of Lend-Lease is the destruction of the ene- my. Last year ?ritain's Eighth Army was equipped with Brit- ish weapons Rxftheir drive across Libya, but the 1000 planes 500 tanks and anti-tank Suns that we sent to the British gave them air power, fire power and armor. The General Sherman tanks that were used so successfully were designed by British and American experts. In dollars spent Lend-Lease has cost the Uhited States from March 1941 to January 1945 more than eight and one quarter billion dollars. It is quite probable that we shall expend more dollars and deliver more goods to others than they will to us, since we have the world's largest and only bomb free industry among the United Nations, as well as a larve asriculture LJ na ' ..5..

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x 1 'r 5 - 'fn .A LEND-LEASE A POWERFUL WEAPON Lend-Lease is an American device by which the United Nations aid one another with supplies and services. ' From 1951 to l958,when the second world war was develop- ing, we stayed out of the world struggle, but finally from, our desire for security' we passed the cash-and-carry law to enable us to arm those, who in fighting for their security, might assure ours too. By spring 1940 France wr: out of the war and Zritair stcad alone against Germany and Italy. By the next year ,Britain left to spend. without our help she could had little money not continue the war successfully. Mhat should we do? We enter the warg we could not lend Britain did not want to money because the Johnson Act forbade that, and we dared not let Britain, China, and the rest perish. The solution to our problem was the Lend-Lease 'Act passed just nine months before Pearl Harbor. The defeat of nations fighting, and lend or lease to them the things they needed. Lend-Lease is, not only between the United States andfq other members of the United Nations but also between other members. Up to the end of 1942 Great Britain had sent more weapons, overseas to fighting fronts than we had. She sent Russia more than 2500 tanks and more than 3000 planes. We are familiar' with the fact of supplies going from this country to the United Nations, but we are less familiar with the help being given us by others. Take New Zealand as an example. All the mean vegetables eggs, fruits, butter, and cheese eaten by our troops in New Zealand are given without charge under Lend-Lease. Last fall our soldiers got so many eggs that New Zealanders were reduced to three eggs to a person each week for several months. Two large hospitals, and hotels have been turned over to American troops. Our troops are also transported free on their rail- roads 0 4 Australia began to help us when she sent shiploads of food to our troops on Bataan. Australians are the world's biggest meat eaters, but when we sent thousands of our sold- iers there, the civilianfs habits changed, and now they eat meat when they can get it. They can get very few canned goods only 10 cigarettes U driving is against the law. a day when they are available. Pleasure - 2 - the axis was essential to our security so we must aid they in V M 1.

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LEND-LEASE A Pov,EarUL WEAPON cconzinueay ' No country no matter hom rich or strong can stand alone against a mass of powerful enemies. All countries are dep- endent. The real wealth of a country is not money but goods and services. May we be intelligent enough and broadminded enough to use the same good judgment at the peace table that we have used in this powerful weapon LEND-LEASE. y Verlie Walls '45 WOMEN AND THE WAR American women are no longer bystanders at war. They're in it up to their ears. Soon fresh troops will 'replace our weary boys on the icy plateaus and in stormy jungles reinforce- ment made possible by alert-eyed girls in olive drab and navy twill. For day by day these girls are replacing Army and Navy men at desks in recruiting and supply offices, has well as big behind -- the -- lines jobs, as engineers, cooks, chemists, and specialists of all kinds. And throughout the United States millions of other women are replacing men needed for battle. Not all are in uniform, but all are earning their stripes. It may be in unbrave sweaty ways like welding, driving milk wagons or taxis, riding cranes in a shipyard, or the less spectacular job of being both mother and father to tomorrow's children. ,All these things the American woman does gladly. For she knows to the aching depths of her heart what kind of war this is. It isn't for boundaries, for profit or loot. lt's her war. Her men are 'sacrificing their lives for everything she loves and believes in,for the way she wants life to be for her- self and her loved ones. For the American family is the whole kernel of democracyg the wholesome give and take, the security from fear, the free play of the individual, yet his compassion for and dependence upon the others. Tocreate such a nation we once fled from the Gld World. H We can no longer call this the American dream.For through- out the world these ideals of a more perfect society haveseeped into each secluded valley, across craggy mountaintcps, into the hearts and souls of distant suffering people. The whole world is our neighbors It is a dream we must share and help come trues But first we must win this war. And to that end the American woman is dedicated today, whether she is nurturing young spirits inthese ideals with spankings and lessons and birthday candles, helping produce grain and pigs as well as tanks and guns or cradling some wounded sailor's head in the pitching seas of the North Atlantic. Not to mention those who have enrolled in the several women's corps of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines. - 4 -