Quote Originally Posted by MersaMatruh View Post
Precisely. British troops who had left the UK in late october early november 1941 origanally destined for Basra to reinforce the Middle East had just about reached Capetown on 7th December 1941. Most of the division were diverted to Singapore.
? I think the point he was making was that we would have been able to throw much more weight in the Western War had we not had the Japanese kicking our heads in, in 1942. You seemed to be disagreeing with his point that the European war could have been extremely different if the Afrika Korp and their Italian mates had been given a prompt shoeing by the overwhelming Imperial and Commonwealth force that could have been brought to bare against them had the Japanese been good.