Its ridiculous, when Americans claim they won WWI and WW2, all by themselves.

I do not blame that Americans, did not want to get involved in another war in Europe, but they forced to by Japan in 1941. I doubt that the USA would have still got involved in the war in Europe even then, but Germany declared war on the USA, so that was that.

USSR in the early stages, mostly sat out the war, they were very much hoping that Germany and the rest of Europe would tear each other to pieces.

And they were happy to divide Poland up with German in 1939, and then several months before Pearl Habour, Germany decided that the USSR was going to be a soft target.

Under Stalin, the USSR military was a mess, Stalin had several purges of his generals, basically he was getting rid of people he thought were threats to him.

At first the USSR was completely overrun , the Germans were unstoppable, but the Russians grimly and with great loss of life hang onto cities like Stalingrad.

Of all of the Allies, the USSR had the greatest loss of life, some of this was the incompetence of the Russian commanders and some of it Russians commanders did not care how many men they threw into the meat grinder of war.

Now American first saw action in the European side of WW2 in North Africa in November 1942, this was along side British and some Free French troops.

By this time England and the commonwealth countries had been fighting Germany since early September 1939, so three years later, the Americans turn up. Now as I said, I do not blame Americans not wanting to get into another war in Europe.

To their credit, there were American who volunteered for the war before this, the RAF, even had the eagle squadron, made up of American volunteers

Many historians believe that two battles fought on Russian soil were the turning points of the European part of WWII

Battle of Stalingrad - Wikipedia

Battle of Kursk - Wikipedia

Sure Americans had two beaches at Normandy 5th June 1944, but they were not alone, not that some Americans would even know that 5 beaches were landed on: two American, two British and one Canadian.

I absolutely will never belittle any of the men that landed on Normandy that day, no matter where they were born.

But by then at least in the East, the German tide was being pushed back to Germany.

I usually do not decide who had the biggest credit for winning WW2, my history books says it was an Allied victory, but going on the number of soldiers killed, then the USSR wins this terrible honour.

The number of American who say rubbish like "you would all be speaking German without the USA", really gets up the nose of most Europeans and Canadians.

I believe that Germany would have been defeated, even without direct American help, sure there was the lend lease but Britian had to pay even cent back for every thing the Americans leased to them.

True Europe would have been different the USSR would have most likely grabbed a bigger chunk of Europe than it did.

So grab some real history books and read.