In 19 forty, the us. Essentially starts its rearmament efforts and starts gearing up for war. The people who designed the constitutional framework of the us. Believed that standing armies stood in opposition to long term liberty. And so while the us. Navy has always been something that some been paid attention to, when you have two giant motes surrounding your hemisphere, makes sense to spend some time in advance building a navy.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...