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Old 09-10-08, 04:11 PM   #27
Pisces
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Originally Posted by Ping Panther
I would agree that the European/Atlantic campaigns of this era is more self-identifiable to Americans in their world history education (or lack of it). Since most Americans tend to have a strong majority of their ancestory linked to some landmark from Europe/U.K./Africa. While I would consider based only on my post-WW2 birth comprehension allows, was that the most immediate call to arms fury was was more stronly rooted in the U.S. to the military threat presented by the Japanese forces at the time as being perceived as more immediately urgent, despite the ongoing strife that the German forces had pressed for a considerable amount of years previously, yet it was determined at that time to be blurred from the American perception or direct policies to engage such a direct action. Once this has aged a couple generations of time, my experiences of the highschool education program did lean a certain 75% to the educational matters of the Atlantic war more than the Pacific.
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