[/quote]The U.S. had zip to do with the Brits winning the Battle for Britain Date: 10 July – 31 October 1940;.
They defeated the German Air Force with their planes and their tactics.
FDR could not stop the Japanese from killing thousands in Hawaii much less have any thing to so with the U.K. winning that battle.
Before D-Day, U.S. was engaged in a cluster f--- in Italy:
The Allied campaign in Italy, launched with some optimism after the Allied victory in North Africa in 1943, turned into a brutal, protracted, and costly slog. American casualties at Anzio alone were 59,000. The difficult combat at places like Monte Cassino pushed many soldiers to their breaking point. After the Italian fascist regime fell from power and was replaced by a new government friendly to the Allies, the battle for Italy became an extended bloodletting between tenacious Allied troops and steadfast German forces. It ended only when the war in Europe ended. By then, more than 300,000 U.S. and British troops who fought in Italy had been killed or were wounded or missing. German casualties totaled around 434,000.
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Excuse me but how did a post about the Brits not staying home after 1776 and returning to make war on us in 1812 turn into a lesson about the Battle for Britain in WW II? All I said about WW II was that we sent guns which Britain asked for before we entered WW II and FDR wanting us in the war to end the depression. Read a little more closely and save yourself a lot of key strokes schooling me about a subject I never mentioned and has no bearing on my post. Have a nice day.