Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Guadalcanal Campaign - The Battle of Tassafaronga: (IJN 4(?) : 3 USN)" video.

  1.  @mpetersen6  You are simply wrong. FDR had secret intelligence about the A-bomb. He flatly knew that he could NEVER race for the Bomb with a peace-time nation. While the experts flatly told him that Adolf WAS racing for the Bomb. So, Plan A was to infuriate Adolf -- and get America into the anti-Hitler alliance. It failed. Adolf would NOT bite. So, Plan B was to infuriate Tokyo -- and then PRAY. Pray that Hitler finally takes a naval reverse in the Pacific to convince him to initiate Plan A, revised. And.... It worked. The rope-a-dope was hugely advanced by the Rainbow 5 leak. You MUST read up on this gambit. Rainbow 5 was a super-secret internal assessment ordered by FDR about how ready America was to enter the European war. It was dire. The report told the president that America needed 18months to even THINK about getting troops over to Europe. Rainbow 5 described the Luftwaffe as being y e a r s ahead of anything America could fly. And so forth. Adolf bought it. FDR personally ordered Hap Arnold to leak it. Arnold used his personal aide. Hoover discovered all of this by February 1942. Hoover then quashed all further utterances WRT the leak of this Top Secret report. FDR had other gambits. The Flying Tigers were flatly illegal. They were a BLACK operation by the USAAC -- authorized by FDR -- to infuriate Tokyo. It didn't work. But the boys were allowed to come back into the USAAC/ USAAF after such service without stigma. (!!!) The USA paid for the Flying Tigers -- via the back-door. Yeah, the USA was actually at war with Japan -- and even now this is largely denied. Cute. You can't call it a conspiracy when the president, every service chief and top members of Congress are all in on the scheme. BTW, FDR met every TUESDAY to pow-wow strategy. Today this is still done. It's called the National Security Council -- and the president is always its chairmen -- IF he drops in and attends. Thus, FDR's ad hoc creation still lives.
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