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Originally Posted by waste gate
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Originally Posted by Skybird
But without wanting to downplay American losses (ranking amongst the lowest of all major nations) - the real heavy deathtolls were payed by other countries, bot Allies and Axis.
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
George S. Patton
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I know that quote and used it myself in the past. However, concerning the context of this topic of how to weight war contributions, it is more or less useless. The Russians lost 24 million people, soldiers and civilians alike, and God knows how many their cities laid in ruins afterwards. How to calculate that with material deliveries from the US and Britain? that's why I said the US were one war faction - amongst others only. And if any of these allies could have won the war all by himself, the Alliae maybe never would have formed up, for there would have been no need for it.