"DSK" wrote in message
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Ashland Henderson wrote:
Pretty funny, actually. We helped, no question about it but the real
heavy
lifting was done by our old enemies, the USSR. I'd suggest reading
some
real histories of WWII.


thunder wrote:
And with 20 million dead, the heavy dying.

You might want to take a second look at the numbers. Undoubtedly the USSR
played
a huge role in WW2, or as they call it, The Great Patriotic War, but the
oft
quoted figures of ~20 million casualties (I've seen it put at 23+M)
include a
heck of a lot of civilians that were deliberately starved or worked to
death by
Papa Joe Stalin.

Regards
Doug King

Exactly. One cannot diminish the contributions of the USSR but those
casualty numbers are inflated. Joe Stalin may even eclipse Hitler as
Europe's biggest mass murderer.

Our critical contribution was typical American cowboyism. While the English
were bombing at night at to save losses, they also weren't hitting much. We
got over there with our B17's and B24's and commenced daylight precision
raids on Hitlers infrastructure, despite him having the best air defence
system known to man. Our boys signed up for 25 missions when the average
survival expectency was 15 missions. If you're in Memphis stop off and visit
the Belle, she sits peacefully by the water now, forever on her 26th
mission - to make sure we never forget. If Col. Bob Morgan is ever speaking
near you, go see him - and look in the eyes of a real hero.

-W