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Originally Posted by theking
After the Japanese attacked Perl Harbor the Germans declared war on the U.S. which opened the door for us to enter the European war. The administration took the position Europe first and the Pacific second. Until VE day the bulk of materials and man power went to Europe and the war against Japan was secondary.
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Wrong.
The main effort on the United States in the early stages of WWII was fighting in the Pacific.
In 1942 only the Russians were really fighting the Germans. The United States had yet to land any forces in Europe. About the same time the battle of Midway took place, which was one of the first times the US beat Japan. 1943 saw the Russians fighting in Stalingrad and Moscow, which was the start of the German defeat. It wasn't until September of 1943 - two years after war was declared on the United States by both Japan and Germany - that the US put a large military force on the ground, which was in Italy.
The US was attacked, stunned, and was loosing ground. It was fighting Japan from day one while German submarines had a fucking field day off the US east coast - nearly unopposed by the US Navy.
By the time D Day happened, the Russians had beat down the Germans in Stalingrad and Moscow, had pushed them out of Russia, into Poland and Estonia - nearly into Germany and Berlin. In June of 1994, the month of D Day, the Russians (after destroying entire German Divisions in bulk) took on and defeated the German Army Group Centre, which if I recall correctly, was the large military army in modern history. In the mean time the United States was fighting second hand troops in France. The German army has lost, defeated on, and or retreated nearly a thousand miles of Polish and Russian territory before D Day took place.