I knew an old guy who said during WW2 he joined the army and went to Africa. What was he doing there? (I didn’t know him very well and he’s probably dead now so I can’t ask him directly). Was there any war related stuff going on in Africa?
I knew an old guy who said during WW2 he joined the army and went to Africa. What was he doing there? (I didn’t know him very well and he’s probably dead now so I can’t ask him directly). Was there any war related stuff going on in Africa?
A lot. The entire continent was colonized by European powers at that point, mostly by England and France. So you have Germany and Italy trying to take more, meanwhile the ANZACs and North Americans are in there trying to take the lower Mediterranean, which will serve as a staging ground for the invasion of Italy.
In the US we largely focus on D-Day and the war in the pacific.