But this is really just a parlor game 4 idiots that want to beat their chest 75 years later and had nothing to do with it. The truth of it is, it took America’s Manufacturing and Technical prowess and the complete mobilization and professionalizing of our military, and it took the Russian people suffering brutally in terms of blood to beat down those Nazi bastards.
Nobody had a walk in the park. I can understand why Stalin was pressuring us and the Brits to open a second front. They were in desperation mode, in a fight for survival. And I understand why we didn’t do it, by 1944, our army was a very different animal than it was in the Summer of 42. And we spent a good solid 18 months to 2 years wrecking the luftwaffe which had to be accomplished.
Despite the Parlor game of today, there was plenty of suffering, and plenty of hard work that happened on both sides.
Russians won in spite of Stalin, and they lost millions more than they had to.
We opened a second front in Italy in 1943 but the losses were too high, so we attacked the less-heavily defended coast of France.