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Originally Posted by Mancie
Just have to pull you up on that Roy..the USA .. the American administration if not the public..must have seen long before Pearl harbour.. that if the Nazis controled the whole of Europe then there would be no chance of an invasion from the west.. without a stronghold from which troops and supplies could be amassed for any D day invasion would not been impossible without Britain
The priority was to attack and destroy Germany in Europe...the war against the Japs had to take second row.. and it turned out to be the right decision.
The Japs had more victories in Britsh Asia.. such as Singapore.. than they had in the Pacific.. the Aussies and Kiwis were definatly under threat.. and fought valiantly.
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This seems reasonable ... but how much of it is hindsight ... particularly the "must have seen" bit. History gives us a viewpoint that was quite probably not available to those in power at the time. One can fume in frustration that British and French political military leaders did not act against Hitler in the 30s ... when he expanded the German Army to 35 divisions, when he moved into the Rhineland, when he started constructing U-Boats and the Luftwaffe, when the .... we can go on for a long time but I think I have made my point. Quite often, war aims develop after the fact .... maybe even after the war is over ... it is a way that history makes sense of the senseless.