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Originally Posted by rogueteens
It all depends on your perspective -
If Britain hadn't successfully stood alone in Europe and fell to the Nazis then america couldn't have gotten involved and Russia would have fallen to the Germans who would have had only the one front to fight on.
The american strength in numbers are what made the fight back possible even though they were very badly paid, refused to learn from lessons learnt by the rest of the allies and insisted on being paid for everything.
Russia had a massive army that although were badly armed finally managed to show their strength once the western front was opened up.
All those factors paid a part (It does worry me though that a lot of Americans here seem to think that D-Day was an american only operation) and all were just as important for the win, if one third of that equation was missing then Germany would be enjoying their empire stretching from the UK to the Chinese boarder.
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God bless our UK allies and Commonwealth allies, especially the Canadians and Australians, whose bravery throughlut, but especially during those dark days of the early War inspires Americans to the present day. One very cold October afternoon a few years ago, I walked from the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to the Commonweatlth War Graves on Heerstrasse, hidden in the forest. Mainly the graves of flight crews shot down while attacking Berlin. I was the only visitor and had it to myself. Sixty years later the bravery of these men still shines. It bothers me too when people think that only the US was responsible for the victory. It took an ocean of blood, most of it from 18, 19, and 20 year old kids from the Allies to end the Fascist threat to civilization.
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