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in which fifty elderly destroyers were transferred from the United States to the UK in return for the right of the U.S. Navy and Air Forces to establish bases in
British territories. No war material was received by Britain, however, in exchange for the bases in Bermuda or Newfoundland. The
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Krancke reasoned that there remained the possibility of the Bermuda and Halifax convoys' assembling off the Newfoundland Bank, which meant that this combined convoy would not reach the patrol area until a later
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had departed on her final mission (Bermuda was a formation point for trans-Atlantic convoys in both World Wars. During the Second World War, convoys formed at
Bermuda and coded BHX merged at sea with those formed at Halifax, which were coded HX).
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A Strong Base of
Inestimable Value: The US Bases in Bermuda and Charles Fahy, Part II
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459:, were also established, and the
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