Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "D-Day at Stalingrad | BATTLESTORM STALINGRAD E20" video.

  1.  @AlexanderXVIIII  Britain could have held out, as both the Germans and Japanese had over-extended themselves. If TIK is right, the German economy would have eventually collapsed. They didn't have the oil to sustain their war effort. Japan would have taken longer, but they were more or less in the same boat. The war would have lasted another decade, in all likelihood, but both nations would have imploded in the end.
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  2.  @AlexanderXVIIII  I think you kinda forgot that the British fought Germany for two years, one year by themselves, before the US was dragged into the war kicking and screaming. And Britain had to fight the Japanese as well. So both Britain and the US can make that claim. Also, the US didn't fight alone, something many Americans tend to forget. This is not to knock the achievements of the United States, but just a reminder that they didn't win the war alone - it was a combined effort.
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  3.  @360Nomad  I am not arguing about scale, but rather the ferocity of these battles. The battles fought by the Marines in the Pacific are most definitely dwarfed by Sevastopol, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Rzhev, Kursk, and many others. I would argue, though, that for sheer brutality in a small area, the battles on the Pacific Islands were just as bad, and in a couple of cases lasted as long as, the worst fighting in Stalingrad.
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  4. Although I suspect the Marines who fought on Tarawa, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa might disagree with you.
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  5. Liked the deliberate or inadvertent pun as 11:18. "Berth of Legends" indeed.
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  6.  @el_bizcocho6916  Well, apart from a single Canadian division on Britain, they were fighting alone on the home front. They would have had a hard time bringing troops in from the rest of the Empire, then equip and feed them given the U-boat campaign. Plus, the troops from the Empire were mostly fighting elsewhere at the time. The British Army/Imperial Forces were almost over-extended even with the help of the Aussies, South Africans, Indians and New Zealanders in North Africa and elsewhere. And you have to remember they had to leave garrison troops in various places to protect against sabotage, etc. So, for just over a year, Britain was fighting more or less on its own against Germany and Italy, plus staring down the barrel of the very real prospect they might end up having to fight the Soviet Union as well. Not a comfortable position to be in.
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