B Robson wrote:

> a year after *Germany* declared war on the US.

I may be wrong (its late, and I'm emptying a keg that would otherwise 
have to be poured down the sink tomorrow), but I think Germany and Italy 
declared war on the US in December 1941. a few days after Pearl Harbour 
or thereabouts. The "tripartite" agreement thingee was a year earlier 
though.

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