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Well Alan, I guess you forgot about Lend Lease destroyers (the four stackers, as they were called), and the huge amounts of supplies and milatary hardware shipped to England from 1939 to 1941 PRIOR to Pearl Harbor. Further, I guess you forgot the guys who died on patrol aboard the U.S.S. Reuben James in the North Atlantic while escorting a convoy. They died as a result of a torpedo attack on the ship, with a loss of over 100 men on October 31st, 1941. This was just the first of (IIRC) four USN ships sunk prior to war being declared.

In addition, all of these events were part of the reason that there is a theory that FDR conspired to get us into the war. In order to continue sending supplies to England, if not increase the amounts, it has been supposed that FDR deliberately allowed Pearl Harbor to occur.

It fascinates me that not only do you not realize so much was done before WWII started for the U.S., but that you don't know it despite the conspiracy to which the events prior to WWII have given rise.

-- Max

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