usa - praise where it's due, page-32

Let's keep The US saved the world in WWII in perspective.

I have no argument with the notion that the Allies (read Australia) were staring down the barrel of defeat in the Pacific but in Europe, the Allies would have prevailed, eventually.

No invasion across the Channel would have occurred (in either direction) but English boffins had invented the magnetron which allowed their bombers to hunt the U boats at night and The Battle of the Atlantic was virtually over. Once the sea-lanes were open they could lay siege to Germany and it would eventually fall.

To say the yanks won the war would be like watching Ali and Frazier slugging it out and have Foreman join them in round thirteen, knock one down and then claim the title because he landed the KO blow.