Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Mined off Normandy - From a survivor of USS Tide" video.

I sometime glibly criticise the Yanks, 'Over paid, over sexed and over here' etc but when you come up with the Real McCoy, like this gentleman then you realise how invaluable they were to finishing the war. Looking forwards to the next story of this everyday hero.
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@CorePathway I understand where you are coming from. I believe the U.S. only came into the war due to Pearl Harbor. Japan was an ally of Germany and Germany declared war on the U.S. Whether the U.S. should have entered the war beforehand I think you have to consider the terrible evil of Fascist regimes across occupied Europe (and within Germany itself) and the resultant political and economic turmoil, that the U.S. could not cushion itself from. Personally, I'm with Rooseveldt, it was necessity and if you'd come in earlier the war would have been shorter and less bloody. I'm sorry for the loss of life of U.S. citizens but the war would have come to the U.S. mainland eventually. Military regimes don't stop until somebody, hopefully Democracies, stop them. I'm not a fan of Churchill or the posh entitled class either ... but he was better than his predecessor in an ongoing war. Britain did remove him immediately afterwards and had a much more progressive government.
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