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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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Starting in October or Setember 1941 US warships were guarding the convoys to England halfway....we actually had a US Destroyer Sunk in this period. So hostilities had allready begun between Germany and US before Pearl Harbor.
Hitler declared war on the US hoping that Japan would declare war on Russia in return, but the Nips were smarter than that.
John Toland who wrote many books on WW2 felt that FDR knew about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor before the attack. But from what I gather FDR really didn't know. The Jap cable were there to be decoded, but like all things bureaucratic hadn't been deciphered yet.
FDR and Churchill chose to make Germanys defeat the primary objective simply because Germany had so much more industrial capacity. Japan literally had NO CHANCH in WW2. Both Germany and Japan combined could not out produce the US in military Goods.
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