JB: In the early 50s, didn’t the US fund some RAF purchases of UK built aircraft? No. Most, and for exports/licences, such as Aquilon.
Colaga: US’ 1946 gouge is a myth. They gave us 50 years, at an interest rate (effective, net of a holiday) <2%, to repay $3.75Bn (to which Canada added $1.25Bn. – enormous, per capita). Wingeing about it not being (another) Grant, we used an “extraordinary circumstances” clause to take dwells – Korea and later – so that we retired it in 2006. (We did lose much of it by trying to comply with £ convertibility, imposed as a condition of the Loan; that and using some for Virginia baccy meant not a lot of “Reconstruction”.)

Grants were the basis of ERP (Marshall Aid) 1948-51, MDAP and MSP 1951-55. Those programmes tooled up such plants as Chester (MSP-funded Venoms) (and in France, and in W.Germany), which since 1972 have been used for Airbus work, which some in US see as their subsidy of us taking their jobs.