Declan Murphy wrote:
> 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.
> 

That's right, but the first US attacks on Germany were Jan 27 1943.