stubby331
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ORIGINAL: DoomedMantis The boomerang was produced because the Brits refused to give us the rights and/or machnery necessary to produce Spits or Hurricanes. They wanted to control everything themselves, but wouldnt help out by supplying us with any excess stock they had (and they had plenty up to 5 times the amount of planes as they had pilots. They kept lying to Australia saying anything and everything, but in the end they screwed us. They only started to give us stuff after we turned to the US for aid and they were worried about not getting a piece of the Pacific pie. Unfortunately the US were also reluctant to give us much either, so we were forced to build what we were able, as in the Boomerang. We supplied 50,000 airmen and aircrew to fight, and the Brits gave us 2 squadrons of spitfires in reply, past the time when we needed them. Not forgetting of course that when those three (1 RAAF, 2 RAF) squadrons came over from UK the Brits advised the USA to deduct that amount of aircraft from our allotted quota of Kittyhawks which were being supplied (Churchhill was still very dark at Australia for not allowing the Australian division enroute to Java to land at Rangoon). Source: Loosely Quoting from the Book "The Great Betrayal" by David Day.
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