Richard Aubrey
2008-07-18 08:08:48
“Europe first” meant “the Pacific second”, but it didn’t mean spend everything on Europe.
It was “just enough to make sure, the balance, if any, to the Pacific.
Had the Battle of The Atlantic gone worse–we won–less could have been sent to the Pacific and more resources–DDs and corvetters, PBYs, etc–to Europe.
It was our choice to make it a close-run thing.
