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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
As a kid, the history of WW2 was taught to us, that the US entered the war and whipped Hitler with just a little little help from some allies. As an adult I learned just how bad the history of what we were taught really was.
It still is amazing that all of Europe fell to the Nazis, France just let the Germans walk into Paris without a shot fired. The Vichy French even became allies for the Germans. The Germans pushed the British off the continent, back to a rather small island. And the British fought on, mostly on their own, because it was the right thing to do.
With a lot of supplies from the USA, Brittan fought on, bombing the German industry and finally won the battle of Brittan to give Hitler a black eye. Hitler just bombed the hell out of the civilians. They kept destroying Hitler's factories and kept Hitler from becoming unstoppable.
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Spot on...if Pearl Harbor hadn't been attacked, we may not have entered the war at all.
But once we entered, and our untouched industrial might was cranked up...
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