i think you'll find it was the then Soviet Union who turned the tide - accounting for 90% of all Nazis killed in WW2, and sacrificing millions in the effort
then again, the yanks made some great war movies..... so who do you believe?
By late 1941 the British were practically a spent force militarily,with little in the way of armaments & equipment, as much of it had been abandoned in France. American 'lease lend' had provided some small relief at the cost of almost bankrupting Britain. With only the Royal Navy holding it's own (barely) and the RAF desperately short of aircraft and trained pilots, Pearl Harbour was the turning point for the eventual outcome of WW11 because the full weight of US industrial might was thrown into gear, and now produced more equipment and ships than was being destroyed/sunk. The Soviets had initially 'done the dirty' on us with their non aggression pact with Hitler which left the way clear for the invasion of Poland, only for themselves to be 'stabbed in the back' when Germany launched 'Operation Barbarossa' in June 1941. Stalin was caught 'on the hop' & the soviets suffered severe defeats & loss of a great deal of territory, leaving them in dire straits until early 1942 when, after eight months of continuous supply by ship convoys of British & American food, armaments & technical support, they were in a position to regroup and begin to throw the Germans back. The Eastern Front was the largest & bloodiest of any battlefield in WW11 and consumed vast numbers of human lives, but without the help of Britain and the US especially, and the opening of the '2nd Front' in Normandy, the Soviets would have had a hard time keeping the Nazis at bay, much less beating them!
Sorry for the rant, I'm no lover of the Yanks in general, but the endless rows of their dead from two world wars bears testament to the fact that they do rather more than 'make good movies'.
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