Originally posted by NicktheClayman
@Villian, Military History is my forte.
You really must be kidding me here. I mean
really.
I'll point you some facts:
- 90% of Axis (Germans + their allies) losses of the war occurred on the eastern front. Alongside with their best equipment.
- If we forget the insignificant clashes on North African desert, the Americans had the first contact with German forces in July 1943 when Sicily was invaded.
- By July 1943, the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk had already decided the war - the Germans had lost approximately three times the amount of troops they had in the west combined. Any single one of those battles was more deciding than all the fighting on the western front combined.
- By June 1944, when the allies invaded Normandy, the Soviets had already crushed the German army and were inexorably advancing towards Berlin - the whole invasion of France was done only to prevent the
Soviets from conquering the whole continental Europe.
- Judging by the amount of troops the Germans concentrated on the eastern front, it can easily be seen, how the Germans were actually waging a
one-front war against the Soviet Union - there was no real fighting going on anywhere else during 1941-43 and in that time the German army was virtually destroyed on Soviet soil.
- Had the Americans (and British, etc.) never bothered with continental Europe after 1940, the Soviets would still have crushed the Germans - it would probably just have taken a month or two longer.
- The only important thing the Americans did in the war was their supply to the Soviets, who did all the fighting.
Now, can you give me any arguments (based on something else than ridiculous Hollywood-movies) that show the Americans as the saviours of Europe you like to see them as?
-Villain (the forte of military history is me)
