This Memorable Day

[John Kelsey]

>From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
>Sent: Nov 6, 2004 2:10 AM
>To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net, ocorrain at yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: This Memorable Day

>The figure that's usually quoted is that 80% of German's military force was
>directed against Russia.  Of the remaining 20%, a lot had already been engaged
>by France, the UK (via the BEF, the RAF, North Africa), Greece, etc etc before
>the US got involved in Europe.  So the Russians should get most of the credit.

Yep.  I think to a first approximation, the US defeated Japan and the USSR defeated Germany.  My impression is that a lot of the push to do the D-Day invasion was to make sure the USSR didn't end up in possession of all of Europe at the end of the war.  (Given how things developed, this was a pretty sensible concern.)  

>Peter.

--John