“Memo: The Allies won the war. It was not just the USA, or Britain, or the Soviet Union.”
With out the second front with the Ruskies, Britain might have been saved but the rest of Europe, and maybe N. Africa, would still be German.
Especially if Hitler had not declared war on the USA. Then the war against Japan might have been over by early/mid 1944, if we had concentrated on the country that had actually attacked us.
We pretty much bankrupted England with the Lend/Lease program. The US made the Brits give up its holdings in the US in return for a bunch of obsolete destroyers. After Hitler declared war on the US then the question is how much of the debt was just our share of the war?
I don’t think we asked the Philippines to pay us for saving their butts. Of course if MacArthur had had a clue before the Japs attacked then maybe Bataan could have been avoided. I never understood why the Admiral in Hawaii was crucified for being unprepared but MacArthur was celebrated for deserting his command in the field after having been even less prepared.