Aftermath
With the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coastlines cleared of Axis forces, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to declare that these areas were no longer combat zones. As a result, ships of the United States were able to proceed to the Suez Canal. This helped to relieve the enormous strain on the shipping resources of the United Kingdom. It was only at the end of 1941, once the US entered the war against the Axis powers, that the combat zone requirement lost its significance.
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