During the Second World War, Newfoundland played a pivotal role in Allied naval strategy for the North Atlantic.

Under its Leased Bases Agreement with Britain, the United States had permission to establish military bases in Newfoundland.

By the end of the Second World War, the obscure fishing villages of Argentia and Marquise had been transformed into a mammoth US military base.

About health conditions in Newfoundland during WWII such as problems with housing and veneral disease and the need for wartime hospitals.