On Jan 19, 4:35*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
harry wrote:

Ah! You're one of the ignorant too I see. * America only came into WW2
after the Germans declared war on you. *The day after Pearl harbour I
think it was. *You did not come running to defend us, you needed our
help.

Ignorant?

Uh, American came into WW2 when the JAPANESE bombed Pearl Harbor.
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
US declares war on Japan, 8 December 1941
Germany & Italy declare war on US, 11 December 1941
US declares war on Germany, 11 December 1941

The Russians did more than anybody.

Yep. They suffered 65 million dead (but who's counting). On the other hand,
the US supplied the Soviet Union with:

21,795 planes,
12,056 tanks,
4,158 armored personnel carriers,
7,570 tractor trucks,
8,000 antiaircraft and 5,000 antitank guns,
8,218 artillery guns,
11,155 railroad freight cars
132,000 machine-guns,
472 million artillery shells,
9,351 transceivers customized to Soviet-made fighter planes,
2.8 million tons of petroleum products,
102 ocean-going dry cargo vessels,
29 tankers,
23 sea tugboats and icebreakers,
433 combat ships and gunboats,
4,478,000 tons of food supplies
2,670,000 tons of petroleum products,
106,893,000 tons of cotton,
3,786,000 tires
15,417,000 army boots
as well as mobile bridges, railroad equipment, aircraft radar equipment, and
many other items.

Regardless of anything you may have "learned" in Hollywood movies,
John Wayne was not present, Boeing did not invent the jet engine. Bill
Gates did not invent the computer. They were all Brit WW2 inventions .

John Wayne was a British invention? You are correct, he was not present in
WW2. He was too old to serve (34 at the outbreak of conflicts). He did serve
in the OSS.

Less than 23% of forces landing at "D day" were US.

Allied forces landing at Normandy
USA - 73,000
British - 60,000
Canadian - 20,000
Plus token amounts from Poland, France, and Belgium.

No bombs fell on America. And yes I know about Japanese ballons before
you mention them.
Almost no American civilians were killed.

Correct. Very few American civilians were killed.

We did suffer 636,000 military dead (plus another 10,000 in the Merchant
Marine) compared to 384,000 from the UK & Crown Colonies.



You did provide massive manufacturing capacity. *As a result, some
Americans became very rich.

Rich is good.

Rich is not good in a system the robs the poor to give to the rich and
where the rich pay few taxes. At least Castro robbed the rich to give
to the poor.

20,000 French civilians died in the Normandy landings through bombing
mostly. Many Frenchmen fought behind the lines, sabotaging German
rail and telephone communications. If they were caught, they were
shot out of hand.

At the conclusion of WWII, the USA had 50% of the world's manufacturing
capacity. At the start of the war, the Japanese had 11 aircraft carriers,
the US had seven. At the end of the war, the Japanese had 1 functioning
aircraft carrier and the US had 107.

At the conclusion of WW2 the USA had the world's only undamaged
manufacturing capacity. This is the only reason for the the wealth of
America. This has now changed. Americans have no tradition of
innovation. They are spiralling back to the economic position of pre-
WW2 and taking the rest of the western world with them.