The British and the Russians did a lot more fighting and dying on that front than we Americans did.
Bollocks. I couldn't find relevant stats, but sure, the English and the Ruskies lost a lot of lives, military and civilian - after all Hitler invaded Russia and had
blitzed England it preparation for an invasion. But the Ruskies had a non-aggression pact with the Krauts until Hitler broke it, and the English had laid themselves open to it by appeasing the Krauts at
Munich. The English were hunkered down on their island redoubt, waiting for the Yanks to come rescue them, and then then complained about the Yanks being "over here, over paid, and
over sexed":
"Interviewer: Do you think it was true, the over here, over paid, and over sexed thing?
Mrs Hall: I've got a lovely poem, not about that, but I've got a lovely poem about them, something about, 'Dear old England's not the same, we dreaded invasion when it came, but now it's not the beastly hun, the God damned Yankee army's come. We see them in the train and bus, there isn't room for all of us, we walk to let them have our seat, and then get run over by their jeep.'".
My English neighbors still complain about the 'Mericans taking so long to get there.
Try reading Patton instead of Montgomery and Stalin.
In taking time to tidy up the previous post I neglected to mention North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Ardennes, and on to Berlin.
In taking time to tidy up the previous comment I neglected to mention North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Ardennes, and on to Berlin.