” . . . and the Soviets provided the troops.”
I had an Aussie buddy you used to point that out whenever the topic of WWII came up, and it’s a fair and accurate point - my usual response was that I thought that was probably about right from the standpoint of karma, given the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact that allowed the Nazi’s to get of the block the way they did in the European theater.
The American fleet headed to Midway following the breaking of the code. A Japanese submarine was in the area and could have radioed Tokyo but the fleet had passed. Could have changed the outcome of he war.