Shipping constrains Allied Strategy
29th December 1942: Churchill writes to Stalin promising "to engage the enemy with the largest numbers in the shortest time" during 1943
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When Churchill had met Stalin earlier in 1942 he had promised that the Allies would open a ‘second front’ in Europe in 1943. Operation Roundup - a planned amphibious assault on France - was still on the table. But the more the planners looked at …
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