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I thought part of Europe first was a logistical issue. Most of the US industrial strength and population was on the east coast and shipping them to North Africa and UK was much closer then sending them all the way to the Pacific. A most factories where non millitary were made to build ship and truck which could be sent to the USSR and UK to help immediately. Vs having to convert factories to build weapons which would take much longer.
No because like General Patton authorizing a raid to get POWs it was a side show and not a strategic focus. The 6th Rangers had nothing else to do and would have been expended as ordinary infantry so the mission took away nothing from the actual campaign.
No because like General Patton authorizing a raid to get POWs it was a side show and not a strategic focus. The 6th Rangers had nothing else to do and would have been expended as ordinary infantry so the mission took away nothing from the actual campaign.
Bet those guys in the camp would think different But you are correct it wasn't the main reason for being there.....Taking out the nip was the main goal at the time. just like todays anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo... Kill the japenese no matter what. I applaud the men who fly that mission...
The US and British Empire's strategy was "Germany First". It was first outlined and adopted shortly after the 1940 Presidential election and confirmed, with the British, at the Arcadia Conference shortly after Pearl Harbor.
The bottom line was that the Roosevelt administration and the military
leadership took the position that the greatest threat to the United States in
1942 was Nazi Germany
The truth is that Germany posed no threat to the U.S. Not economic, not military, or in any other way. But if any nation posed a threat it was the Soviet Union. It is inherent in the communist philosophy to carry out a world revolution and make the whole world communist. Before the war with Germany the Soviets were constantly propagandizing about the U.S. and Britain as the capitalistic countries that had to bed overthrown from without or within or both. Fact is Germany was at war with the country that wanted us destroyed and we sided with the country that was out to destroy us.
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But you are correct it wasn't the main reason for being there.....Taking out the nip was the main goal at the time. just like todays anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo... Kill the japenese no matter what. I applaud the men who fly that mission...
