That’s a fact, however, our main interest lay in the Pacific and the supplies that were needed should have been sent. We were fighting there before we started fighting in Europe but FDR sent 80% to Europe and 20% to the Pacific. As I said, we were lucky to win that war at all. If we had been thrown off the Canal we would have had to take another year, or more, to beat the Japanese.
We just did not need to supply Stalin.
We had to fight in both theaters.
I say that having not only one relative killed at Bataaan
but another relative was a B-17 pilot in Europe who
was killed.