However, Germany was a major threat to us and all of our Allies.

them without a way to get the resources they needed to survive.

them down by bombing, blockading, and immobilizing them on their

own ground. We could only do this with the help of Great Britain. This

meant supplying them with food and weapons.

that Germany needed to be defeated before Japan was even considered a

target to attack.

This was a committee consisting of the professional military chiefs of both

countries, responsible to the President and Prime Minister for planning and

directing the grand strategy of the coalition. By February 1942 the Joint Chiefs

of Staff (JCS), consisting of the U.S. members of the CCS, had emerged as the

highest authority in the U.S. military.

Army Ground Forces (AGE), Army Service Forces (ASF),

Operations Division (OPD), General Headquarters (GHQ),

Army Supply Program, and many more.

causing many causalities. In the months that the Japanese were

rebuilding, soldiers In the Philippines were growing weak and dying.

Due to the lack of food, diseases were spreading and killing off

divisions, leaving us vulnerable. On April 9, after being bombarded by

artillery, many Captains in the Philippines surrendered and the Japanese

had taken control.

through historic invasion routes across the English Channel. This plan

would only work if the attack was launched before the USSR would fall. If

the Ussr was to fall, German forces would stray from the Western Fronts

to avoid such a catastrophe.

were suggested. Sledgehammer was cancelled after British forces weakened.

After Bir Hacheim, operation Torch was presented. This operation would

deploy troops in Northern Africa in an attempt to defend Egyptian cities.

and Great Britain to plan defensive strategies against Germany.

By the end of 1942, the total U.S. Army Forces deployed against

Japan was greater than those deployed against Germany.