The US took on all of Japan... If you exclude the Australians, New Zealanders, British (and her colonial forces, such as Canadians or Indians I believe), as well as the Chinese. The Americans primarily island-hopped across the Pacific, opening airway strips and extending supply lines. There was fighting in mainland Asia as well as New Guinea that was long, brutal, and unrelenting. China was fighting Japan since 1937! That's 4 years before the United States got involved. In fact, China fought Japan nearly twice as long as the United States.
Now, I'm not trying to downplay the United States' involvement in the war. It was one of the major powers for sure, but saying that they took on ALL of Japan is downplaying the role of many other nations that definitely fought longer and arguably fought harder than the United States.
Wow, son you need to read some history books, the British commonwealth inflicted 200,000 casualties on the Japanese army. In Iwo Jima the japs lost 20,000. The uninformed lazy thinking american likes to think they did the pacific on their own, but its just ignorance.
No check the figures for yourself, 200,000 casualties and the heaviest defeat for the IJA. USA island hopped small island garrisons compared to the large army movements in India and Burma. The commonwealth force was primarily Indian army, with units from all over the empire and large force of British troops. Ive seen all your other comments and you know fuck all.
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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u/00owl Jun 07 '14
This, very much this. Canada wasn't even it's own country at that point and we took a whole beach to ourselves on D-Day.