How did the US government treat England during WWII?
Carina has hit the nail right on the head. Until the day he died around 11 years ago, my father in law absolutely despised the Americans for their attitude during WWII. He wouldn’t speak about it very often as he used to get so angry with them. One of the things he did say though was about the friendly fire deaths…and it seems that the Americans are still guilty of that charge nowadays. (Iraq/Afghanistan) The attitude of Americans that they won the war single handed, and that if they hadn’t stepped in to save our butts, we would all be speaking German is an insult to all those who gave their lives before your government was shocked into action by being attacked at Pearl Harbour. As has been pointed out the “help” that they gave us came at a hell of a price and those debts were only finished being paid back within the past couple of years. The attitude of the (then) Americans is why my elderly neighbour, and others, said “know they know what it feels like” when 9/11 happened.
The US had to get the hell knocked out of them at Pearl Harbour before they helped England. Until then, US corporations were trading with Germany. Meanwhile Germany was exterminating Jews, bombing London and generally committing mass murder all over Europe. You must remember that the Germans attacked Poland in 1939. This was only 21 years after the First World War and the US helped then. Google ‘US trade with Nazi Germany’. That should get some of the filth. It was not a time that the US has anything to be proud about and thousands of American lives were lost by the US not joining the war earlier.
well if you was really our friend you would of joined in 1939 and not selling materials to both sides well the hard British men was fighting, Americans came over to England taking our women and to top it off you have movies claiming America won it single handled let’s face it the “special relationship” only works Americans way let’s look at the facts soon as 9/11 happened we declared war on Iraq but when the Ira was banging at our door the Americans gave them money we take such a big intrest in American culture but most American wouldn’t know the difference between “England” and “Britain”.
The US government leased Britain a whole lot of military supplies and hardware. Without this we would have been stuffed. We paid back the last instalments on the debt in the 1990’s. In addition, by joining in on the good guys side (after Pearl Harbour), thousands of US servicemen lost their lives. The US 8th Air Force operated out of Eastern England and reduced Germany to rubble. Half of the U.S. Army Air Force’s casualties in World War II were suffered by Eighth Air Force (more than 47,000 casualties, with more than 26,000 dead). Most US war dead were transferred to America after the end of the war, but there are over 3000 servicemen and women buried at the American War Grave Memorial outside Cambridge. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridges… – It is worth noting that upon the outbreak of war with Germany in September 1939, some thousands of Americans who were in Britain attempted to
