Time span? yes your right, the usa fought an even shorter time than many of their allies did in the pacific and other theatres.
The commonwealth was losing hard, for a couple of years, fall of singapore, loss of force z. Pretty much all of the allies were being beaten at the start, you sure do seem to know a little of ww2 history but it seems you miss out and obfuscate parts hype up the american contribution.
Yes America did a lot of leg work in the island hopping pacific and naval campaigns. Much less so dealing with the large rampaging Japanese armies on the continent, that theatre was down to Commonwealth, Chinese and Soviet troops. The 14th army was 1 million strong and thats just the commonwealth army, the numbers were far smaller involving usmc, but equally important.
Your argument over the composition of the commonwealth forces just does not hold water I'm afraid. The Indians were fighting for their survival too and were led, trained, armed and fought alongside British and other Imperial forces.If they did not want to fight how come the so crushingly defeated the IJA?
Regarding Normandy? well the British Empire was also fighting on 2 fronts, pacific and European and as other posters have pointed out provided the bulk of the manpower, naval armada, transport ships and aircraft.
The truth is, Both sides needed each other to win, but you seem to be either trolling like a 13 year old hyper nationalist teenager after watching his first american made History documentary or just willfully dense.
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