@BillRM,
History is never as simple minded as you seems to be Izzythepush.
You've got a real brass neck to call someone else simple minded, and an incredibly simple mind if you label an abstract concept such as History 'simple minded.' So you believe History has a mind?
You have a
simplistic view of History, you seem to view it as you saving our 'asses' and nothing more. If that were the case you would have entered the war in the summer of 1940. America acted in its own interests. It was in America's interests to keep Britain fighting prior to Pearl Harbour, and at the end of WW2 America was an unrivalled superpower.
I don't think for one minute that we would have won without your help, but you should be in no doubt of the British contribution and sacrifice. When
you try to airbrush that contribution and sacrifice from History, don't expect to be treated with anything other than contempt.
The USSR made a significant contribution as well, and their casualties put allied casualties in the shade. The Russians don't constantly tell us they saved our 'asses' during WW2. The truth is we all saved each other's 'asses,' so you should be every bit as grateful for our troops and the Soviets as you expect us to be about yours.