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Al Murray has a good bit on this, something along the lines of "If you're not in a fight from the beginning you're not in it at all"

Oh certainly, there's no doubt that the AEF was a joint effort and not a solo US attack. My point was more along the lines of pointing out that, to the war in general, the Americans had a massive impact on the outcome and, to my view, things may very well have been quite different had they not...

I've found to be quite balanced really. There is an admittedly American slant to some of it but, as historical record, that's fair enough; they did come in and make a massive difference to the outcome of the conflict. Them and the Russians.

If the thumbs were still around I'd 'Up' this. It is quite literally nothing short of genius to come up with something like this. It also seems, to me at least, to be an extremely British solution to the problem!

I've been reading this recently: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0743449746 Some of the stuff in there is incredible. For instance, during the planning stages, Allied command had a national drive asking people to send in postcards of the beaches from vacations etc. and they used those to build up an...