[CaptainCrunch]

Nobody begrudges the credit that the American's get for their contributions to the European theatre. Their manpower, equipment pure manufacturing weight and logistical expertise bought the war to an earlier end.

But lets be honest, by the time the American's entered the war, Germany's defeat was pretty much a given, it was a matter of time before they exhausted themselves, the major battles for the American's were in the Pacific where they truly showed their military might.

But if you look at Canada's contributions in WW2

Canada's contribution to getting food to the allies and helping to break the submarine blocade were paramount, without that Britain would have probably been starved out. the creation of the unique and very Canadian Corvette allowed a massive increase in the amount of supplies getting through in concert with Britains anti submarine efforts.

50,000 pilots trained at the Commowealth training program and a great many Canadians participated in the BOB as pilots.

The Dieppe raid was a bloody awful campaign for Canada, but the lesson's learned from that raid lead to many of the successful inovations that contributed to D-Day's success.

Canada was crucial to the success in Italy, and our troops were crucial in breaking the vaunted Htiler line.

We've talked about the successes of the Canadian D Day invasion.

The battle of the Scheldt was a major victory for Canada and the Allies

Canada liberated the Netherlands.

Lets look at another key contribution from Canada and that was the creation with the American's of the First Special Services Brigade which created the concept of dedicated special forces Commando units, the lessons learned lead to the professionalization of training and lead to groups like the Green Berets.

Canada gained a lot of its reputation in Korea especially in the battle of Kapyong that saw Canadian's moving into the battle while other troops were moving away.

Canadian Forces fighter pilots served in the USAF as part of an exchange program during Korea as well.

In every engagement that Canada has been in the underlying sense is that we're a nation that goes in does a professional job, punches far above its weight and goes home, yet we continually hear that we're wimps that we're terrible, we get little credit on the international stage.

Even today, Canada's Navy performs admirably with the american's in war zones.

In Maple Flag Canada's fighter pilots outperform any of their allied counterparts.

It wasn't that long ago that during an Excercies a Canadian sub slipped into an American carrier group and simulated torpedo runs on a super carrier.

We should be incredibly proud of our history, we shouldn't be taking a back seat to anyone in terms of our history, and it should get our backs up when its suggested that we don't contribute on a high scale for a small country.