What if we ignored N. Africa and the MTO?

"Paul F Austin" wrote in message
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"ArtKramr" wrote
What then? The war in central Europe (ETO) could have gotten our full
resouces, D Day would have been a year earlier and the war would have
been
over a lot sooner, German troops in No. Africa and the MTO would have
simply
been isolated and would died on the vine. Why not?

Mainly because we would have been handed our heads, trying to invade in
mid-1943.

I just read "An Army at Dawn". Given the mistakes the Allies made invading
North Africa, trying to invade France without the lessons we learned in
Operation Torch would have been disastrous.

Glenn D.