Comments by "Luke Sandy High Ground" (@Luke_Sandy_High_Ground) on "The rise and fall of British power" video.
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@CatholicCrusader__30 "brits did nothing its the americans and mostly soviets who fought the war. yall just kept shouting in the media."
- Won the Battle of Britain,
- The Royal Navy shutdown Germany's access to oil, and its role as an enemy-in-being tied down dozens of German divisions and tens of millions of tons of German war materiel on the Atlantic coasts.
- Took over their entire spy network
- Acted as the only viable staging-point for a western front
- Sunk over 60% of U Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
- Sunk the Bismarck,
- Sunk the Tirpitz
- Sunk the Scharnhorst,
- Defeated the Regina Marina
- Defeated the Kriegsmarine
- Won the battle of the Atlantic,
- Bletchley Park code breakers decrypting Enigma and the - Lorenz Ciphers in real time providing vital information about German plans and troop movements to the allies
- Won at El Alamein and thus preventing the Suez Canal and the Middle East oil fields from falling into German hands,
- Contributed the most ships, most aircraft and most men on D Day. Roughly 75% of naval forces on D Day were from the Royal Navy
- Faced and defeated the most concentrated force of German armour ever seen in the war around Caen
- Liberated Belgium, North East France, Netherlands, Eastern Italy
- Destroyed or heavily damaged every major German city with heavy bombers. The bombing campaign helped to divert 80% of Luftwaffe fighters away from the Eastern Front. They forced the Germans to build those enormous flaktowers, hardened bunkers, inefficient underground factories, and forced them to produce millions of munitions for flak.
- Escorted the vast majority of the Arctic convoys into the Soviet Union, a vital supply line to keep them in the war
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