FredPuli43
/// aog, I think history is against you. Like me, you lived through times when everyone was encouraged to believe that we, Britain, defeated Hitler and that the Americans only turned up for the glory. ///
I don't know how old you are Fred, but I think I am much older than yourself.
If you read my post I did not think "the Americans only turned up for the glory", i gave credit to all the Western Allies, and I am not stupid enough to believe that we took on Hitler single handed, I was there, and we owe much to 'Uncle Sam' earlier for food and weapons and later for men and planes.
/// The reality is that Hitler's great defeats and his great losses, were at the hands of the Russians who, not content with defending their borders, ///
Neither were we content on defending our borders, we along with others fought tooth and nail over vast areas of land, on two Continents and still they came at us, ever heard of the 'Battle of the Bulge', and I am not referring to one's waist line?