# destroyers-for-bases deal

> a 1940 agreement whereby the United States supplied the United Kingdom with fifty destroyers in exchange for basing rights in Newfoundland and the Caribbean.

**Wikidata**: [Q196731](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196731)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyers-for-bases_deal)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/destroyers-for-bases-deal


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013