Yes, in 1941 President Roosevelt agreed to exchange for the lease of the British naval and air forces.
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To concentrate on fighting the Japanese in the Pacific
Marshal proposed Eisenhower because, at the war college, he had written a proposal for the cross-Channel invasion. He had also done a competent job commanding the Louisiana War Games. Marshal persuaded Roosevelt, and Roosevelt persuaded Churchill that Eisenhower was the man for the job. Churchill agreed, provided that all of the immediate subordinates, Air, Naval, and Operational Field Command, would be British.
President Woodrow Wilson agreed to send 15,000 troops to North Russia and Siberia.
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