The Bases
- Bermuda
- Not actually part of the exchange, but the US received base rights here for free, in addition to those that were part of the exchange. The US Naval Operating Base was established in 1940, operating as a flying boat base till 1965 (when the US Navy switched to using landplanes from Kindley Air Force Base). The base continued in use for other purposes as the US Naval Annex until 1995. Construction began at the same time of a US Army Air Force airfield, Kindley Field, attached to Fort Bell, and which later became Kindley AFB. Transferred to U.S. Navy in 1970, it operated as NAS Bermuda until it was closed in 1995.
- Newfoundland
- Several Army Air Force airfields. As with Bermuda, no destroyers or other war material was received in exchange for base rights in Newfoundland.
- Pepperrell Airfield (later AFB) (closed August 1961)
- Goose Bay Army Airfield (later AFB) (turned over to Canadian Forces, July 1976)
- Stephenville Army Airfield (later AFB) (closed December 1966)
- McAndrew Airfield (later AFB) (transferred to U.S. Navy, 1955)
- A Naval Air Station
- Naval Station Argentia (closed 1994)
- Multiple Marine and Army Bases and detachments in support of the above.
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