Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "What did German soldiers Think of their Allies and Enemies? Spaniards, Italians, Americans..." video.

 @adamgt4037 US supplies to: 1) Britain: 11% 2) USSR: 5% - British War Production by Postan, 1951.
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@adamgt4037 "America's Contribution, they pretty much Supplied the entire Allied Force" You need to study some real history, not from Hollywood.
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@Marcfj What don't you understand about 5%?
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Romania was with the British and French in 1939, then changed sides twice.
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@Marcfj The British ended up controlling Afghanistan.
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@Marcfj The US supplies to the USSR was mainly trucks and boots. They could have used horses like the Germans. Irrespective, USA supplies to the USSR was only 5%.
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@Marcfj Are you electing me official spokesman?
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@Marcfj That counts you out then.
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@Marcfj We do not need a detailed breakdown.
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@sdssds1086 Britain and France guaranteed the borders of Poland and Romania pre 1939. It was clear Romania could not be trusted.
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@Mircea076 Britain was contained? Right after the successful retreat at Dunkirk, up until early 1941, the British had: • Destroyed the German surface fleet. • Neutralised most of the French fleet by sinking or starving it of fuel. • Disabled a major part of the Italian fleet. • Freely moving around the Mediterranean. • Starving Germany of food and resources with the effective Royal Navy blockade. • Beat the Luftwaffe over Dunkirk.• Beat the Luftwaffe in the misnomer the Battle of Britain as Britain was never threatened. • Occupied Iceland. • Decimated the Italian army in North Africa. • Were about to take all the southern Mediterranean coast. • Germany was being bombed from the air with raids of over 100 bombers - 150 over Nuremberg - using the new navigational device, Gee. • A massive air bombing fleet was being assembled. • A matter of weeks after the US entered WW2 the RAF launched a 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne. • The RAF shot down over 700 German fighters over Continental Europe in 1941. • Launched Commando raids on occupied Europe. After the small BEF (only 9% of all allied forces in France) left France in June 1940, the British went on the rampage. So much so Franco told Hitler the British may win with him not joining in with Germany, fearing British occupation of Spanish territory. The Turkish ambassador stated Britain will win as it has a pool of men in its empire to create an army of 45 million (later an army of 2.6 million moved into Burma). In 1941 the British: • Suppressed an uprising in Iraq; • Beat the Vichy French in Syria; • Secured Iran and the oil by invading;• Drove the Italians out of East Africa. • Controlled the Med coast from Turkey to Libya; • Controlled Malta on the doorstep of Italy; • Controlled both entrances to the Mediterranean; • Controlled and freely sailing in the eastern Mediterranean; The British determined where the battlefields with the Axis were going to be. After France 1940 Germany never had a significant campaign victory over the British Commonwealth ever again in WW2. The Germans FAILED: • To win the Battle of Britain in 1940; • To win the Battle of the Atlantic in 1940/41; • To control the eastern Atlantic; • To control the Mediterranean in 1940/41; • To control North Africa and the Middle East in 1940/41. The British Commonwealth stopped the Nazis/Axis achieving all this well before the USA joined WW2 or even sent Lend Lease.
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