> We were not the least bit concerned about the British Navy.
Admiral King, for one, deeply mistrusted the motives of the British.
“Admiral King, for one, deeply mistrusted the motives of the British.”
“Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, too, despised the Brits with a white hot hatred. He believed that they were playing the US for suckers and treated the US like mules to fund, recover, and defend their failing overseas empire that they lost to the Imperial Japanese.