XPost: alt.war.world-war-two

On 29/01/2022 14:19, a425couple wrote:>

So did the Americans play a substantial role In WWII? According to
Stalin, Zhukov, Khrushchev and Churchill they did. Not only substantial,
but indispensable.

Clearly they did, and I doubt too many reasonable people dispute it.
Lend-lease played a part, although in reality the Artic convoys were not
the be all and end all to Germany losing the war.

I would say the ability of the Allies to launch D-Day in June 1944 and
attack the German forces from the West was the biggest contribution that
the US provided. Could Britain - and her Commonwealth allies - have
mounted that invasion of continental Europe in 1944 with enough
firepower to force the Germans back without the involvement of US
forces? I doubt it very much. So the answer to the question is, yes the
US did play a substantial role.

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