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For the Record
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Originally posted by Spanky
We devoted EIGHTY PERCENT OF OUR RESOURCES ON THE EUROPEAN THEATER AND ONLY TWENTY PERCENT ON THE PACIFIC THEATER. This policy decision, besides making Macarthur and Chang Kai Scheck apoplectic, showed that our goal was always Europe.
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Doesn't this have to do with the fact that the war in the Pacific was a naval war, and did not require as many ground forces? You can only build so many ships (and we did).
And but not for the unexpectedly early coming of VJ Day, I'm sure that number would have been closer to 50/50.
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