(April 28, 2011 at 2:14 am)Chris_Zee_Great Wrote: I point to two major factors, weapon wise in winning the war.There were ~110 Allied flight decks in the Pacific at the end of the war. Japan never really had a chance.
T-34 Russian tanks and the U.S. aircraft carriers, or more importantly, the capacity to crank one out at a ratio the Japanese couldn't ever hope to match.
Quote:It still saddens me though when I hear someone give all the credit to us 'Mericans when it comes to winning the war. They fail to realize that WWII was over for the Axis in '43 when the Japanese were on the defensive thanks to Midway and Stalingrad proved to be the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Sure, us Americans were all cool and did the producing, but damn, those crazy Red Army bastards sure did the dying.
Every group tends to play up their part in the war. I spoke with a Russian professor in 1994 who told me that the Normandy invasion received one paragraph in Soviet history books on WWII. Local preference takes priority over reality all too often.
