To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (256919 ) 7/6/2008 9:43:48 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (3) | Respond to Ann, my father risked my life by volunteering to go because, he said, "Hitler had to be stopped" while the USA cringed, frightened, behind the Atlantic for another year: <Agreed the USSR made a huge contribution to the defeat of Hitler; you overstate it however when you say the war was won "not quite single-handedly" by the Soviets, for you are detracting from not only US efforts but that of the other Allies and Commonwealth nations. >You must admit the US did the heavy lifting in the Pacific; > That's not even slightly in dispute. Other efforts were almost irrelevant. The coup de grace of the atomic bombs was pure American [albeit Jewish - ex German which is a whole other issue]. That's beside the point. our ability to spend huge sums on the military caused the Soviet Union to try to match us, which in turn resulted in their downfall. > I won't go back over it all again. Repeating it over and over to people who don't want to know is pointless.
