Recent scholarship (link below) reveals that although Australia had hoped to retain the bulk of its Lend-Lease combat aircraft, lingering enmities (between the US and Australia) combined with federal election pressures to ensure their exclusion from the mid-1946 settlement agreement - and...
Using the RNZAF as a case study, this feature article (.pdf attached) explores the 1946 U.S. Lend-Lease settlement.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48717728