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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

given the Americans did not join the war until 1944

What? Do you think D-day was the first day of war for Americans? It wasn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_campaigns_during_World_War_II

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or that Europe's "fall" was pending in 1943. France had already been taken over by then, while the Battle of Britain had secured England's airspace, and Russia was pushing back in the east. Germany had seen its high water mark at least two years before.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 4 points 1 year ago

There was a rather Infamous Day a few years prior to that…best not feed the trolls I suppose