Quesiton about death's in WWII

[iceman_419]

Russia alone lost millions of people and I know the rest of our allies suffered greatly when it came to casualities. How many did the U.S. lose? I ask because Repugs, the one's who never had to fight, always talk about how America saved the world and how only America won WWII. THis is plain B.S. My grand dad fought for the Austrlaian army in Africa and then had to go down to Guini when the japanese where trying to invade Australia. Is his fighting worth nothing? We spit on our allies, we show off our small dick, and we wonder why no one trusts our likes us. Why don't we give other countries, like France, the credit they deserve. They fought, lost, but if it wasn't for the French we wouldn't have been able to win back France and probably wouldn't have been able to win the war. We seem to have no problem brushing off anyone to helps us and taking all the glory for ouselves. This isn't against FDR this is against all those idiots who think that America has been around since the beginning of time and that we created everything. What a freaking joke.

[babylonsister]

1. Lots of info on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3609213#3609380

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

2. A little over 400,000 U.S. soldiers died in WWII

http://www.abmc.gov/abmc45.htm

[Pepperbelly]

3. a comprehensive link ...

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm

[Amonester]

4. When my father came back home after

he fought the criminal liars of the time for three years in the RACF, too many of his friends and allies didn't have that same joy they hoped for (celebrating the end of the Far Right's criminal ambitions).

I thought they asked us to never forget what happened, and to make absolutely sure any such ideology would never have a second chance to "rise" ever again. How sad it is to see these power hungry radicals in a position to maim and murder using illegal weapons (re: depleted-uranium, cluster bombs, and all...) for oil and arms' profits with no end in sight some 60 years later?

I say: write, write, write relentlessly. Protest peacefully, and protest peacefully again if the criminal hypocrits refused to listen to your last protest. Send emails to the good people you DID vote for, telling them what you know about the Far Right radicals, including what you know about some "evily" wished for "New Pearl Harbor" (can anybody be more criminal than that????) by some (or by all???) of the PNAC (how could ever they????). Stand up for true Honesty and true Justice. Write, protest peacefully, write, and write again, until you get one positive answer, then another one, and another...

Never give up hope because the world must never forget what happened.


http://www.notinourname.net/courage.htm


(On edit: the link)

[Mountainman]

5. Though we had fewer deaths, our country supplied most of the arms to all

the allied countries.

Americans who worked in the factories at home, largely women, built the planes and tanks and rifles and bullets and bombs and ships that the other countries used also many American civilians died in convoys on the open sea, women flew unarmed military air craft into the front lines and many were killed and not counted in the 400,000 deaths.

Americans had drives to collect scrap metal, bought war bonds, lived on rationing of food, gasoline, rubber and other necesities.

Just measuring the combat deaths doesn't paint a true picture of America's contribution to the war.

[0007]

9. Remember this expression during WWII - "Praise the Lord

and pass the ammunition."

[jus_the_facts]

6. LEARN THE DEEPER HISTORY......

.....what you always thought you were taught isn't even in the same ballpark of the deeper history behind the scenes....same players...same $$$$$...yesterday through today...read and understand why the world is the way it IS... :nopity:

http://www.winterboy.com/dejavuintro.html

[sparrowhawk]

7. No, the U.S. didn't win WWII on its own ...

All of the Allied countries won that war. The U.S. made a huge contribution, but we couldn't have won on our own.
By the way, FDR would be the first to acknowledge this. Why the present-day right-wingers want to diminish the contributions and sacrifices other countries made during that time I do not know.

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