WI the US concentrated on Japan?

King Thomas

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And sends 60% of it's troops to fight Japan from the start instead of OTLs 40%? It is still at war with Hitler;it just wants to deal with Japan first.
 
And sends 60% of it's troops to fight Japan...


Sixty percent of it's troops aboard just what? Or are they going to swim instead?

The Pacific War requires ships and, no matter how the percentages are shifted, those ships don't start arriving until 1943. What's more, the only reason those ships began arriving in 1943 is because of spending bill passed in 1940.
 

Cook

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At the time of the United States entering the war the Germans were at the gates of Moscow, for the US to not focus first on European theatre of war risked Russia being knocked out of the war or, equally bad and a constant fear for the Allies for most of the war, Stalin making a separate peace with Hitler.

Also, the British and Americans had agreed previously that in the event of war with both Germany and Japan that they would focus on Europe first, for the Americans to have gone back on this would have meant a major loss of confidence between them.

You’d have had much weaker cohesion between the Allied powers, with significant consequences to the conduct of the war.

And it took more than four times as much shipping to move a division from the US to Australia as it did to move the same division to Britain or North Africa.
 
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