raharris1973
Gone Fishin'
Anvil makes more sense than shifting to the Pacific
Bingo. Everybody seems to forget that another invasion was coming in the south of France. The net effect of the failure of northern France invasion will be a further west meeting point with the Soviets.
It makes alot more sense to press ahead against the Germans in Italy and south of France if Normandy fails. After all, what could FDR hope to accomplish between June and November 1944 in the Pacific, even with a major shifting of resources? A bigger liberation of the Philippines....ooooh big deal.
It would have been flat out dumb for FDR to curtail European operations while setting up Pacific operations that would not hit the Japanese home islands until early 1945 at the earliest. IF FDR kept to his pro-Europe First sentiments, while worried about losing to Pacific-first Republicans, he would see it as all the more urgent to make progress against Germany while he still held power.
wkwillis said:
Bingo. Everybody seems to forget that another invasion was coming in the south of France. The net effect of the failure of northern France invasion will be a further west meeting point with the Soviets.
It makes alot more sense to press ahead against the Germans in Italy and south of France if Normandy fails. After all, what could FDR hope to accomplish between June and November 1944 in the Pacific, even with a major shifting of resources? A bigger liberation of the Philippines....ooooh big deal.
It would have been flat out dumb for FDR to curtail European operations while setting up Pacific operations that would not hit the Japanese home islands until early 1945 at the earliest. IF FDR kept to his pro-Europe First sentiments, while worried about losing to Pacific-first Republicans, he would see it as all the more urgent to make progress against Germany while he still held power.