Unfortunately you are right

Submitted by Terry (European Union), Mar 16, 2007 at 19:28

I'm not so sure about us having lost the will to live following world war 2, but you are correct in many of your deductions. One thing that is very rarely mentioned or acknowledged is that the war could not have been won by any stretch of the imagination without the Americans 'helping out.' Even the vaunted Russian armies could not have survived let alone triumphed without the Arctic convoys on which so many Americans perished. No amount of verbal legerdemain can wipe that out. Even the spectacular advances by the British and Canadian Forces on the Normandy beaches would have come to nothing if the landing at 'bloody Omaha' had failed. Not to mention the aircrews who died in the daylight bombing raids.

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