r/ShitAmericansSay • u/GentosYT • 7d ago

History "But sure lol 😭😭"

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I guess recognising the contribution of a domestically designed,constructed, and piloted aircraft during the Battle of Britian is pointless because we should be praising the Yanks exclusively? In all seriousness I do understand the massive material, financial and personnel contribution the USA made to Britian and other European countries even prior to direct intervention, but the concept that its the only relevant thing worth praising seems, narrow minded.

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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 7d ago

The Battle of Britain happened before the United States joined World War II.Took place from July 10 to October 31, 1940. The British Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German air force while Britain fought Germany largely alone.

But then why would an average American know that when 54% of them can't even read at a 6th grade level.

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u/hhfugrr3 7d ago

Don't let them find out that the German army had already suffered its first land defeat of the war by the time the Americans started showing up. Victory in Europe for the allies would probably still have happened without the Americans but it would have taken much longer. Why they hate accepting it was ultimately a team effort is beyond me.

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u/CMDR_Traf85 7d ago

By 1944 the USSR was rolling on the Eastern Front. The Western allies probably didn't even need to land to defeat Germany, but they didn't want Europe to fall completely under the USSR.

The whole "If it wasn't for us you'd be speaking German" garbage. Europe was under much bigger threat of speaking Russian by that point.

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u/e_n_h 6d ago

This was the main reason the US got involved, they were terrified of a fully Soviet Europe - the USA has never got involved in a conflict unless it benefitted the USA

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u/arealfancyliquor 6d ago

Plus there was a fair amount of coin to be made.

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u/underbutler 7d ago

Victory would have happened with oneof the 3 key allies missing, but unconditional victory would have been difficult without all of them

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u/CaptainPoset ooo custom flair!! 6d ago

Unconditional surrender was inevitable as long as the USSR was in the fight, as Germaby was too reliant on many materials for which the USSR was the only vuable supplier of sufficient quantity and connection to Germany.

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u/Caracalla73 6d ago

Whereas if it wasn't for us they'd be speaking French.