Hemisphere Defense or Sea Command: America's Choice in 1940
Hemisphere Defense or Sea Command: America’s Choice in 1940 #ww2 #history
On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, George Fielding Eliot reported for Life magazine that the country essentially had three ways to defend itself against an Axis invasion.
He rejected the first option, a purely defensive strategy, out of hand. Protecting just the United States, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and Samoa, but not Canada, Greenland, Newfoundland and South America,…