The US was sending more than just raw materials, we also sent planes and Mercinaries. the film Pearl Harbor is one of the few movies which actually shows this. US, airmen mostly, were involved in the conflict as early as 1939, usually serving under the banner of the RAF, but in a strange twist of irony many Americans actually served with the luftwaffa(sp?) as well.The US also sent massive amounts of oil to Britian as well as stocking up on it for itself, by doing this the US cut trade with Asia which increased tensions with Japan, eventually out of protest for Japanese actions in the Pacific the US cut all oil shipments from Japan. Japan has no native oil supplies and only had about a years supply by some estimates, so the Japanses needed to either find an oil supply or force the hand of a nation with Oil. the Japanese chose the latter and decided to attack the United States, thinking that by distorying US warships the US would copitulate and give them the much needed oil. when the US failed to do this, and after the US Victory at Midway and with the moral victory of the Doolittle raid, Japanese were forced to look elsewhere for their oil. The Japanese attacked the Aleusian Islands(Alaska) in an attmpt to get oil supplies. though some conclude the Aleusian Islands campaign was mearly a diversionary tactic to draw the US away from Midway, the stratgetic and resource value cannot be over looked.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Jul 21 2007, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Nobody knows anything about the US military on this forum.</div>I really don't think that to be true, I think I happen to know a little bit about the U.S. military on this forum. Redneck obviously knows a good deal about the U.S. Military. So I think there are people that know about the U.S. Military around here.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (redneck)</div><div class='quotemain'>The US was sending more than just raw materials, we also sent planes and Mercinaries. the film Pearl Harbor is one of the few movies which actually shows this. US, airmen mostly, were involved in the conflict as early as 1939, usually serving under the banner of the RAF, but in a strange twist of irony many Americans actually served with the luftwaffa(sp?) as well. The US also sent massive amounts of oil to Britian as well as stocking up on it for itself, by doing this the US cut trade with Asia which increased tensions with Japan, eventually out of protest for Japanese actions in the Pacific the US cut all oil shipments from Japan. Japan has no native oil supplies and only had about a years supply by some estimates, so the Japanses needed to either find an oil supply or force the hand of a nation with Oil. the Japanese chose the latter and decided to attack the United States, thinking that by distorying US warships the US would copitulate and give them the much needed oil. when the US failed to do this, and after the US Victory at Midway and with the moral victory of the Doolittle raid, Japanese were forced to look elsewhere for their oil. The Japanese attacked the Aleusian Islands(Alaska) in an attmpt to get oil supplies. though some conclude the Aleusian Islands campaign was mearly a diversionary tactic to draw the US away from Midway, the stratgetic and resource value cannot be over looked.</div> The purpose behiond the Pearl Harbor attack wasn't access to American oil supplies, it was the oil in Malaya and the Dutch East Indies (modern day Indonesia & Malaysia). The Japanese wanted to ensure that the Americans couldn't move or re-supply their far eastern command and wouldn't be able to stop their conquest of south Asia. After taking the Philippines to use as a staging area, defeating the British in Malaya and the Dutch in the East Indies they immediately tried to make peacewith the US, so that they could concentrate on the British.</p>
