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That 80% of the Wehrmacht was fighting a losing battle on the Eastern Front at the time of D-Day might indicate something about who the Nazis viewed as the major threat.
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> I don't quite follow your last paragraph. The U.S.
> was doing just fine,
> empire wise, up to the second world war. Latin
> America in their back
> pocket, for one.
>
> Also, given that Europe had been more than decimated
> by the first world
> war, it's hard to argue for anything other than
> relative U.S.
> superiority. And still, it was the Soviets who
> defeated the Germans. Had
> that not happened, they would not have gotten
> eastern Europe.
>
> I'd prefer to keep the discussion on the list.
>
> Joanna
>
> boddi satva wrote:
>
> >C. Joanna,
> >
> >Don't overstate things. The US established air
> superiority over Europe
> >that allowed the alllies to win the ground war and
> our navy and air
> >forces destroyed the Japanese. Russians did a
> tremendous amount of
> >fighting in Europe but very little against the
> Japanese. The Russians
> >would have had an even more terrible fight if
> America had not won the
> >air war. BTW, our GIs did their fair share of
> damage to the Germans
> >and Italians on the ground.
> >
> >My point is that the American investment in Allied
> air power was
> >decisive and that was a financial achievement done
> without much of an
> >empire.
> >
> >boddi
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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