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Originally Posted by Rochard
Wrong.
The main effort on the United States in the early stages of WWII was fighting in the Pacific.
In 1942 only the Russians were really fighting the Germans.
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You're forgetting North Africa. British and US forces fought some fairly huge battles there in late 1942. From there Patton and the armies under several other generals including the Canadian army and British forces under Montgomery then invaded Sicily.
So in 1942 the Russians were so NOT the only ones fighting the Germans.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
The United States had yet to land any forces in Europe. About the same time the battle of Midway took place, which was one of the first times the US beat Japan. 1943 saw the Russians fighting in Stalingrad and Moscow, which was the start of the German defeat. It wasn't until September of 1943 - two years after war was declared on the United States by both Japan and Germany - that the US put a large military force on the ground, which was in Italy.
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See above. You're forgetting N Africa and Sicily. Both were huge campaigns. Not minor. Huge.
The rest of what you said is largely true, although it does leave out many details. Russia took horrendous losses and even several defeats before doing all the great and wonderful things you described. They needed a massive amount of supplies and munitiions to mount their comeback offensive and the US was vital to that, via the lend-lease program.
Frankly I have no idea why Hitler pushed so far East anyway. 1000's of miles of frozen tundra, wooh, I want it! Canada would have been next. He was described as an evil genius but in many ways Hitler was no genius. Far from it in fact. :D