Now apologise for America, Britain told

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:23 PM, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> "[T]he Russians had more to do with the end of WWII than the US...."
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> Anyone who has studied the European theater of operations must concede that
> compared with what the losses that the Russians (er, "Soviets") incurred on
> the eastern front, the allies on the western front had a cakewalk.
>
> The U.S. lost approximately three hundred thousand troops in western Europe
> ( http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2-loss.htm );
> In Eastern Europe the Soviet Union lost between  eight MILLION eight hundred
> thousand and ten MILLION seven hundred thousand (and those numbers EXCLUDE
> civilian losses) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties.
> (and I could very well add that Poland went through its very own unique
> Hell.....)
>

History is one of my best subjects.  It was a mostly US based force
that pushed the Nazis out of France and North Africa.  The British and
Canadians played a role in those campaigns, but the US was able to
commit far more forces and resources to the fight.  The US also did
the bulk of the fighting in the South Pacific against the Japanese
navy with from the British Royal Navy and Australia.

Shipyards in the US built 2,751 Liberty Ships between 1941 and 1945,
with some shipyards pumping out a new Liberty Ship once every 6 - 8
weeks.  These vessels were heavily targeted by German u-boats, but due
to there being so many of them and there being only so many u-boats
most of the ships were able to get across the Atlantic to deliver
their supplies to the allies.  Some 2,400 survived the war and now
only two remain in operation today as museum ships.  They kept the
supply chain running while US and British bombers were slowly
eradicating Germany's industrial wartime infrastructure.  Improvements
in submarine hunting techniques and technology also diminished the
threat of German u-boats in the Atlantic near the middle of the war.

The US military industrial complex was pretty much born out of WWII
and grew during the Cold War.  Their economic and political influence
in this country today is enormous.

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