America was the world leader of the war and took on the Axis powers globally using all resources available in the world in manpower resources and geography and funneling materials and or men to wherever they were needed for the big picture, for total war, Russia was an element but not the big boys of WWII.
When Pearl was attacked my father was in Borneo and started the fight against the Japanese, later he was fighting out of Brazil interdicting supply efforts on the seas delivering to Germany and Italy, at the end he was off the shore of France supporting the landings of operation Dragoon, and then he was preparing for the invasion of Japan.
Without the United States who knows how WWII would have been fought, unfolded, progressed and ended, and it goes far beyond mere additional men and materials.
Fascinating. What he must have participated in- and a good luck and thanks to 🙏🏻 that he survived the war!
If you don’t mind me asking: why had he been in Borneo when the American-Japanese War broke out after the attack on PH? Were there American troops stationed in the Dutch East Indies by then? To deter potential invaders (the Japanese army, for instance)?
I thought America had been neutral until the sneak attack on PH…🤔