[dfwgator]

I’ve listened to a lot of radio broadcasts from that time.

The impression I got was that pretty much everybody knew after Pearl Harbor, that war with Germany was inevitable.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I read a lot of newspaper articles from the time and it was a possibility but it was really not wanted. We did not want to get involved in another European war unless there was no choice. The Reuben James was a clear sign of how much we did not want to get involved. We had gone to war over much less in the past.

There was some push by the Communist Party in the US but it was not a popular notion.

Japan was the target until Hitler obligingly decided to pin a target on his own back.