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Is that why the US and Britain invaded Northern Africa first? Stalin ordered it?
Y'know.....you pitch 'em right into my wheelhouse!
1. In June, 1942, Rommel accepted surrender of the British, Tobruk, Libya. Rommel took more than 30,000 prisoners, 2,000 vehicles, 2,000 tons of fuel, and 5,000 tons of rations. Hopkins and Marshal 'vigorously opposed' any operation in North Africa, as it would delay the 'second front.'
2. How to understand these decisions?
"Washington (U.P.)- A highly reliable informant who has first hand information of events in the Soviet Union said tonight the Russian people would not regard even a major Allied success in North Africa as the answer to their desire for the opening of a second front." Drive in North Africa Not Enough, New York Times, October 28, 1942.
3. Churchill was beside himself!
Give FDR credit: he sent over 100,000 Allied troops into North Africa in November.
Yet he, Marshall, and Hopkins never waivered from northern France as their 'second front.'
4. "Stalin Still Insisting On That Second Front...belittles fighting in Africa." NYTimes, November 8, 1942
5. You think this operation compared to the one Stalin ordered????
" The Allies assembled 2 million troops of numerous nationalities, nearly 5,000 ships, and 11,000 aircraft..."
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