James Holland

You can kill with two birds with one stone because you can get some experience fighting against Axis troops, you know, test some of your equipment and commanders, you know, what's not to like and then we can sort of see how it goes. So this is a kind of opportunistic strategy.

You can kill with two birds with one stone because you can get some experience fighting against Axis troops, you know, test some of your equipment and commanders, you know, what's not to like and then we can sort of see how it goes. So this is a kind of opportunistic strategy.

You can kill with two birds with one stone because you can get some experience fighting against Axis troops, you know, test some of your equipment and commanders, you know, what's not to like and then we can sort of see how it goes.

So this is a kind of opportunistic strategy.

Whereas the Americans are very much sort of, you know, we want to draw a straight line to Berlin and that's the quickest way and let's do it that way. So it's kind of a different viewpoint. And But Roosevelt kind of gets that and agrees to that. So that's where the whole North Africa Mediterranean campaign comes from.

Whereas the Americans are very much sort of, you know, we want to draw a straight line to Berlin and that's the quickest way and let's do it that way. So it's kind of a different viewpoint. And But Roosevelt kind of gets that and agrees to that. So that's where the whole North Africa Mediterranean campaign comes from.

Whereas the Americans are very much sort of, you know, we want to draw a straight line to Berlin and that's the quickest way and let's do it that way. So it's kind of a different viewpoint. And But Roosevelt kind of gets that and agrees to that. So that's where the whole North Africa Mediterranean campaign comes from.

Whereas the Americans are very much sort of, you know, we want to draw a straight line to Berlin and that's the quickest way and let's do it that way.

So it's kind of a different viewpoint.

And

But Roosevelt kind of gets that and agrees to that.

So that's where the whole North Africa Mediterranean campaign comes from.

And as a consequence of the huge commitment to Tunisia, you know, 3,500 aircraft, huge navies, you know, two allied armies in North Africa by the time Tunisia is won in mid-May 1943, they think, well, we've got all this here. We might as well kind of really try and put the nail into the coffin of Italy's war, get them out of the battle. You know, Sicily is an obvious one.

And as a consequence of the huge commitment to Tunisia, you know, 3,500 aircraft, huge navies, you know, two allied armies in North Africa by the time Tunisia is won in mid-May 1943, they think, well, we've got all this here. We might as well kind of really try and put the nail into the coffin of Italy's war, get them out of the battle. You know, Sicily is an obvious one.

And as a consequence of the huge commitment to Tunisia, you know, 3,500 aircraft, huge navies, you know, two allied armies in North Africa by the time Tunisia is won in mid-May 1943, they think, well, we've got all this here. We might as well kind of really try and put the nail into the coffin of Italy's war, get them out of the battle. You know, Sicily is an obvious one.

And as a consequence of the huge commitment to Tunisia, you know, 3,500 aircraft, huge navies, you know, two allied armies in North Africa by the time Tunisia is won in mid-May 1943, they think, well, we've got all this here.

We might as well kind of really try and put the nail into the coffin of Italy's war, get them out of the battle.

You know, Sicily is an obvious one.

Let's go in there, and then we can take a view. But between Sicily happening and the fall of North Africa is the Trident Conference in Washington. And that is where the decision is made. The Americans go, OK, enough of this opportunistic stuff. Let's just, okay, we get it, we buy it, but no more faffing around. May 1944, one year hence, we are going to cross the Atlantic.

Let's go in there, and then we can take a view. But between Sicily happening and the fall of North Africa is the Trident Conference in Washington. And that is where the decision is made. The Americans go, OK, enough of this opportunistic stuff. Let's just, okay, we get it, we buy it, but no more faffing around. May 1944, one year hence, we are going to cross the Atlantic.