Why do some Americans believe they single handedly won WW2?

[Deadstick]

Your constant whining about the Tories and Thatcher is not conducive to most threads. Trying to understand why many Americans believe it was them that won WW2 and all the allies were irrelevant.

Hollywood.

 

[Deadstick]

You are ignoring the ability of WAllied tacair to starve out German forces in France. More troops just means more gasoline, more food and more ammo would need to be transported by train and soft skinned transport that was easily destroyed by aircraft. Once the WAllies achieved aerial supremacy over France and aerial superiority over Germany, supplies could only move at night.
View attachment 1105501View attachment 1105500As it was, German vehicles resembled moving trees to avoid aerial attack.

The Falaise pocket comes to mind.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Accidental bombing of London and the RAF may as well have destroyed the Luftwaffe because by the time we had finished with them they couldn't fly a kite over England.

Yes, the first bombing of London was by a lost German aircraft; from HistoryHit.com: "The first major bombing raid against London’s civilian population was accidental. A German bomber overshot its original target, the docks, in thick fog. This showcased the inaccuracy of bombing in the early part of the war." The Luftwaffe was still launching daylight raids against England as late as June 1943. the so-call "tip-and-run" raids by jabos.

 

[AZrailwhale]

The Falaise pocket comes to mind.

Also HitlerJugend's movement to contact after D Day; "After the 9 July the Hitlerjunged Division is reduced its shadow, its members are reduced to the consistency of a battalion and only 65 tanks (on 150) are still able to fight."From Axis History: "In slightly over one month of combat, the HJ SS Panzer Grenadier Division had lost over 60 per cent of its forces due to combat actions. 20 per cent were killed and the rest of the 40 per cent were either wounded or MIA. "

 

[Deadstick]

Yes, the first bombing of London was by a lost German aircraft; from HistoryHit.com: "The first major bombing raid against London’s civilian population was accidental. A German bomber overshot its original target, the docks, in thick fog. This showcased the inaccuracy of bombing in the early part of the war." The Luftwaffe was still launching daylight raids against England as late as June 1943. the so-call "tip-and-run" raids by jabos.

My Mother was on the receiving end of German bombing in Manchester she lived in the City growing up.

 

[Deadstick]

Also HitlerJugend's movement to contact after D Day; "After the 9 July the Hitlerjunged Division is reduced its shadow, its members are reduced to the consistency of a battalion and only 65 tanks (on 150) are still able to fight."From Axis History: "In slightly over one month of combat, the HJ SS Panzer Grenadier Division had lost over 60 per cent of its forces due to combat actions. 20 per cent were killed and the rest of the 40 per cent were either wounded or MIA. "

The Canadians had several clashes with the 12th SS Hitler Jugend in Normandy, there was no love lost between them prisoners were not always taken.