Canada spent the first 3 years of the war twiddling their thumbs in England, not courageously battling the nazis. Our biggest contribution in that period was impregnating a teenaged Ms Clapton. Fact is Americans saw action in the European theatre long before Canadians, PM King refused to allow our boys to fight in North Africa so the Canadians werent unleashed until Dieppe. Canada also had the easiest landing on D-day and still got nowhere near their objectives, despite being flanked on both sides by the Brits. While the Americans were plunging straight into the heart of Germany Canadians were off on a side mission to liberate the Netherlands, which they failed to do by wars end (though some Canadians fought in North Germany, my Gramps among them. He was at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, which is a crazy story.)
So, yeah, Canada's role in WW2 has been extremely inflated, probably due to patriotism and the education system. America won the war, its time for us all to admit it. They basically fought two wars at the same time, and were giving loads of material to Russia and UK prior to Pearl Harbour.
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