1—You didnt save our rear ends in WW1, it was the British, Canadians and Aussies who threw back the last German counterattack, and it was the BRITISH who led the ‘Hundred Days Offensive’ in summer 1918 that drove Germany back to its borders. America didnt undertake a solo offensive until SEPTEMBER 1918, just two months before the end of the war.
You need to learn your 1918 history. The idea America won WW1 is laughable, you didnt turn up till 1917, and it was the BRITISH who took the brunt in 1918. If any single nation (and NO single nation did btw) ‘won’ that war, it was us. Not America.
2—WW2?. The speak the British dont speak German is because of the BRITISH. America helped Britain, but to suggest you saved us is yet another example of your pitiful grasp of history. Where’d you learn it?. John Wayne films?.
It was the British winning the Battle of Britain, it was Britain and its allies winning the Atlantic sea war, it was Britain and its allies winning in Africa, N Africa, Italy, Sicily and Europe.
Are you honestly telling me that Britain relied on the US to save it in WW2?. Relied on the US army, navy and airforce?. A nation (the UK) with a large army, the RAF, an Empire, and the world greatest navy had to rely on America?.
CANADA ‘saved’ Britain in WW2 just as much as America: they fought from 1939, they supplied us by sea, they gave us $6 BILLION in Mutual Aid (you didnt think only America did lend lease did you?). If any nation helped keep Britain alive, it was your neighbours to the north.
3-—Lend Lease?. I am glad you mentioned it. Are YOU aware of ‘reverse lend lease’?. No, I bet you arent. Between Jan 1942 and Sept 1945 (after LL to the UK had been stopped), Britain GAVE AMERICA £1.2 BILLION in arms and material, mostly to US forces in Britain, but also N Africa and Europe. BUT also British equipment that even ended up in the Pacific.
America also received $8-10 BILLION in RLL from Australia, New Zealand and the Soviet Union.
4—You ignore that BRITAIN also gave the Russians huge amounts of material in lend lease: tanks, artillery, even Spitfires. There was even an RAF squadron who served in WW2 with the Soviets. America gave the USSR huge amounts of Lend Lease, but so did Britain and even Canada.
Give me as much time as you had to google the Net and I’ll pick up some facts to support my statements.
The war in WW1 WAS bogged down. The only reasons the Germans resumed submarine warfare was because they were fearful of American intervention.
As for WW2 - your people were pinned up in Britain while Hitler was running amoke everywhere else.
BY THE WAY,there may have been Aussies and New Zealand troops out in the Pacific but I DON’T RECALL any BRITISH units there.
Winston Chruchill was asked how many Americans he wanted to have sent to fight in Europe for Britain. He said just one - and he would be sure to put him where he was certain to be shot. He said that because he KNEW he needed us over there.
By the way, I DO know a very lot about British History. And the Briton of today isn’t one QUARTER the man of the Briton of yesteryear. (Unfortunately true of Americans also.)