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Originally Posted by Fireball
When people rant on about 'American propoganda' on a day when a lot of American soldiers lost their lives to bail us out of a war we were inevitably going to lose otherwise.
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I don't think that "bail us out" nor "going to lose otherwise" are accurate representations of the outcome if the US didn't get involved.
I won't hesitate to say the US helped in the war, and were most likely the reason the war ended (well, obviously the bombs, but their involvement in general).
England seemed to be doing well protecting their homeland, and their tenacity to fight the germans was amazing (with the help of the canadians of course).
Its easy for the US to get lots of credit for the "war machine economy" and the output of supplies, munitions, and tanks etc when their entire country wasn't being bombarded day in, day out.
I'm not taking anything away for the US or Pearl Harbour, but the US couldn't of "won" the war by themselves.
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Sorry, didn't mean to derail your thread TimSJ, but it does get some discussions going!