Sank a lot more than that dingbat. But the facts are contrary to the Eingrish Fairy Land you live.
Three-fifths of the ships you sank were Swedish-made speedboats, my dear.
The Brits lost 7 warships/support ship to the Argentinians! Wow you guys suck bad!
Yep. We sure did. And we won the war - on our own. When was the last time the US won a war on its own?
Nobody but you says it because you're mad that the Brits could not win a war they started.
We won the war that Germany started.
England is forever in debt to the Commonwealth nations and the US for winning two World Wars for them.
Britain is forever in debt to Churchill and to the British armed forces personnel and the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
Wow... you're a liberal conspiracy nut!
There's no other way I can re-phrase this so I'll just have to put it this way again: When America entered the war in December 1941 it had just a TENTH of the total number of troops in the field that Britain had and it would continue to have less troops than Britain in the war, and be Britain's junior partner, until well into 1944.
We ran the show... Monty was Ike's lackey.
D-Day was not only conceived by the British, but the sea operation (Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay), the land operation (Monty) and the air operation (Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory) were each led by a Briton.
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay's naval operations for the invasion were described by historian Correlli Barnett as a
"never surpassed masterpiece of planning".
Eisenhower may have been "overall leader" of the operation to suit his big American ego, but the real power and brains lay with Ramsay, Montgomery and Leigh-Mallory.
The only thing the brits gave us was Operation Market Garden. One of the biggest failures of the war. Wasteful, stupid, and a complete failure... and of course a 100% Brit plan.
We gave you the whole of D-Day, which would never have been possible were it not for Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain.
As for Market Garden, that operation was mostly successful. The Allies’ failure to secure a bridge over the lower Rhine was the only unsuccessful crossing, while all other objectives were achieved.
The Brits declared war on Germany. End of story.
Because Germany invaded Poland. Germany started WWII.
The Germans didn't drive us into the sea though.
You weren't even in the war in 1940. Had you had been, then had it been Yank troops in France rather than British or French troops then there's a good chance that they would have been driven into the sea, too. But, of course, we'll never know for sure because you lot were twiddling your thumbs on the sidelines whilst big American companies make lucrative business deals with Germany.
D-Day was a US Operation and the brits skipped onto their assigned beaches barely scrathed. Ike was the Supreme Allied Commander.
D-Day was a British conceived and led operation in which Britain took the lion's share and then earned the lion's share of the credit.
The British people's greatest day: Cynics will say it's time to move on. But today raise a glass to the sheer ingenuity, courage and bloody mindedness of Britons like Stan Hollis, who turned a potential disaster into awesome victory
For all the critical contribution of the United States, this was the last great operation of the war in which the British took the lion’s share, and earned a lion’s share of the credit.
Think of the myriad British people involved, from the women industrial workers who made the ammunition to the WAAFs who packed parachutes, the WRNS who manned ops rooms.
Then there were the high commanders. General Sir Bernard Montgomery had been a celebrity since his victory at El Alamein in November 1942, but he was also intensely controversial — hated by the Americans, who thought him slow in action, unforgivably rude and patronising in speech.
But, under Dwight Eisenhower’s nominal Supreme Command, the operational plan for D-Day was overwhelmingly Monty’s. He directed both the landings and subsequent campaign ashore.
Normandy, France, June 1944. A composite aerial photograph of a British 'Mulberry' artificial harbour at the beach head after the landings on June 6, 1944
Even most of his critics conceded that nobody else could have done it better, from the moment early in 1944 when he insisted that the number of troops attacking on the first day should be doubled, whatever the difficulties about finding extra shipping to carry them.
Then there were the staff, thousands of officers often caricatured as boring blimps, almost all civilians in uniform, who worked for months in dreary huts and offices, converting the great plan into reality.
Millions of maps had to be printed in conditions of absolute secrecy; 25 square miles of south Devon cleared of the civilian population to enable amphibious training; arrangements made to ship two million men, 200,000 vehicles, 4,000 tanks and 6,000 artillery pieces from Britain to France.
British workmen built the huge artificial Mulberry harbours which Churchill himself had conceived, to be towed in sections to France and shelter both British and American supply vessels offloading from volatile Channel weather during the first weeks after the landings.
Clever British geeks devised a compound of grease, lime and asbestos fibres to waterproof vehicles. Others designed what were known as ‘the funnies’ — tanks modified to swim, or carry fascines (rolled-up bundles of wood) to bridge ditches, mortars to destroy pillboxes, flame-throwers and flails to explode mines.
Curiously the Americans, usually the most mechanically-minded people on earth, spurned these Limey gadgets — and paid a heavy price for doing so when The Day came on the beaches.
The intelligence planners – again, overwhelmingly British amid American scepticism – forged the superlative Operational Fortitude, the greatest deception in history, to keep the Germans guessing first about where the invasion would come, and later about whether another landing would follow elsewhere.
Operation Fortitude required collaboration between the code decrypters of Bletchley Park, the MI5 officers controlling German double-agents in Britain, the RAF’s reconnaissance squadrons and thousands of army signals personnel impersonating dummy units, which were used to deceive the Germans on troop positions.
It worked brilliantly: Hitler kept vital forces in the Pas-de-Calais — well to the north of the Normandy beaches — until August, amid his high command’s chronic uncertainty about what the Allies might do next.
Then there was the Royal Navy, led by the brilliant Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. Having controlled the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, he now directed the huge fleet of warships, transport and landing craft which bore the armies to France.
In advance of the landings, late in January a British midget submarine — known as an X-craft — carried two secret swimmers into the beaches by night.
A sapper named Captain Scott-Bowden and Sergeant Bruce Ogden Smith, a member of the Special Boat Section from a famous family of fishing-tackle makers, probed the sand with auger drills within yards of German sentries before returning home bearing samples so it could be established whether the target beaches could take the weight of the tanks.
At dawn on June 6, X-craft again played a role, providing beacons to guide the armada inshore, while thousands of sailors directed landing craft and manned the guns of bombarding warships. Overhead, hundreds of squadrons of RAF bombers and fighters spearheaded the huge air operation in support of the assault.
The word hero is often foolishly abused to describe anybody who took part in the Second World War, whether wielding a pen as an Army office clerk at Aldershot, or enduring the whitest heat of battle as an infantryman.
We should not expect everybody who wears a uniform to be brave. But on D-Day, an extraordinary number of men did extraordinary things, which deserve our awe to this day.
Think of Major John Howard, the former policeman who led his men of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry to storm the Orne Canal crossing — what became known to posterity as Pegasus Bridge — just after midnight on June 6, and of the glider pilots who performed the dazzling feat of airmanship that enabled them to crash-land their flimsy planes almost intact beside Howard’s objective.
All were achieved but they had to fall back because the brits would not leave the beach.
Not at Juno Beach.
The US took over from the Brits at the outset.
And who taught you that? Whoever did needs to be shot.
Against the Japanese... the Brits were no shows until the end.
As I've pointed out time and again, the British were overstretched. We'd been fighting for over two years before your mob joined, and we'd lost a lot of men and equipment. The vast majority of the men and equipment which remained needed to be back in Europe to fight the Germans.
It would have failed without Higgins Boats. BOOM!
Britain's Mulberry harbours, Hobart's Funnies as well as the Royal Marines storming every beach were the vital things. take any of them away and D-Day would never have been pulled off.
Brits choose the soft beaches for themselves as usual.
The British stormed EVERY beach on D-Day, and were the only ones to do so. The Americans and Canadians were all accompanied by Royal Marines when they stormed the beaches.
The RAF recognizes 3 full squadrons and they were the vanguard of the RAF. Now THAT is embarrassing.
The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises 574 pilots from countries other than the United Kingdom as flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit during the period from 10 July to 31 October 1940, alongside 2,353 British pilots.
The RAF recognises seven aircrew personnel who were from the United States of America as having taken part in the Battle of Britain.
Non-British personnel in the RAF during the Battle of Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You weren't even in the Pacific. How could you beat the Japanese when you retreated in 1941 and didn't show back up until it was over in 1945.
As I've pointed out time and again, the British were overstretched. We'd been fighting for over two years before your mob joined, and we'd lost a lot of men and equipment. The vast majority of the men and equipment which remained needed to be back in Europe to fight the Germans. We had pressing matters in Europe to contend with. The problem with Yanks today is that they think WWII was mainly fought in the Pacific against the Japanese.
The sideshow known to brits as the Battle of Britain was won by the foreigners including the US.
How was it a sideshow? Of course, it wasn't important to the Yanks. They weren't even in the war and so didnt care. They thought that it was only a matter of time until the British capitulated and were invaded by the Germans which, of course, never happened. The Battle of Britain, however, was VERY important to the British. It was matter of life and death; of national survival. Had we lost we would probably have been invaded by Germany. Thankfully, we won, a victory which then later led to D-day (because, of course, D-Day would have been impossible had Britain been overrun by the Nazis).
Brits were replacement troops. Support troops as best.
Had Britain not been in WWII Germany would have won. You can't say that about America.
