I agree, briton put alot of effort into ww2,and i do get sick of members only regonizing America being the only useful allie. briton was just has powerful and useful as America was,and i think more American should understand this.
June 6, 1944: UK's last day as a superpower ... I can't agree considering the amount of American money backing the war effort. Economic Statistics. The U.S. spent the most money on the war, an estimated $341 billion, including $50 billion for lend-lease supplies, of which $31 billion went to Britain, $11 billion to the Soviet Union, $5 billion to China, and $3 billion to 35 other countries. Germany was next, with $272 billion; followed by the Soviet Union, $192 billion; and then Britain, $120 billion; Italy, $94 billion; and Japan, $56 billion. Except for the U.S., however, and some of the less militarily active Allies, the money spent does not come close to reflecting the war’s true cost. The Soviet government has calculated that the USSR lost 30 percent of its national wealth, while Nazi exactions and looting were of incalculable amounts in the occupied countries. The full cost to Japan has been estimated at $562 billion. In Germany, bombing and shelling had produced 4 billion cu m (5 billion cu yd) of rubble. http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=226140
PhantomMajor I think you'll find that Heidi's contributions were seen as unhelpful, and eventually when they also became discriminatory she was banned. I'm sure your perspective is right. It is very unlikely that Germany would have been defeated by Britain alone - just maybe by Britain and the USSR together. And in Asia, the Japanese certainly could not have been defeated by anyone other than the Americans, even without the atom bomb. Sometimes we Brits feel that Hollywood skews the war into an all-American affair, e.g. the film U-573. And the original article is right about the British contribution to D-Day. But we needed the USA's resources, financial and material, as well as the courage of their servicemen.
Any one who discounts the contribution of the US monetarily, militarily and industriously in the overall war effort has an axe to grind. Similarly those who discount Russia's contribution to initially withstand the onslaught of the German war machine, (however achieved) and their subsequent reversal and eventual overwhelming of the German forces denies history.
Of course we can't deny the influences of Russia's pact with Japan and the harsh Russian winter in Germany's defeat on the Eastern front.
