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I think you'll find, that although the US did have an influence in the later days of WW2 in Europe, most of the really bad stuff was over by the time they came
by Intermernet 12y ago
I think you'll find, that although the US did have an influence in the later days of WW2 in Europe, most of the really bad stuff was over by the time they came in.
Not to say that that they didn't assist immensely, but the victory over Hitler wasn't decided by US troops.
The war in the Pacific was a completely different (and somewhat sad) story.
- bzbarsky 12y agoVictory over Hitler was definitely not decided by US troops. What's less clear is whether it was decided by US _trucks_ and the other material aid the US sent to the USSR during the war (e.g. pretty much all of the aviation fuel the USSR ended up using, a large fraction of their munitions, 2-3x the number of trucks the USSR produced during the war, large numbers of locomotives, etc). As always, it's hard to figure out counterfactuals (e.g. if Russia had to build the 700k trucks they used during the war instead of the 200k they actually built, how many of the ~100k tanks they built would have remained unbuilt)? But the US, and to a lesser extent the UK, was significantly involved in the logistics of the Eastern Front, even though they had no troops there.