Comments by "Gunner Asch" (@GunnerAsch1) on "Get.factual" channel.

the US had been shipping some supplies to both the British and ultimately the Russians through Gander.. though it was mostly used for personel to both places. There was 6 months of panic, indecision and angst after Pearl Harbor. We had a very small military, we had almost no industry and few military aircraft. For over a year.. the US expanded its factories and its aircraft producton and started training pilots, soldiers, sailors. The US had almost no war fighting capability we could send to Europe for that first year, and even then it was mostly technical specialists being sent to survey, deliver data and so forth. We were fighting and running from the Japs on the other side of the planet and really had little going on Europe for almost 2 yrs before our war machine got big enough to do much, and then it was in Africa and Italy, so a lot of flights were south into South America and then over to Africa and the middle east. Do a time line search on WW2 here on Youtube.. you may find out your teachers glossed over much.
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