EU Questions & Answers

Nathaniak, on 29 January 2012 - 11:59 PM, said: The only reason that the Allies could open the second front was that the RAF had held out in the Battle of Britian. It was the survival of the RAF that led Hitler to cancel Operation Sealion (the invasion of the UK). If Britian had fallen, then Hitler could have turned his full force towards the USSR, and might not have failed to defeat them. The US could not ship an entire invasion force across the Atlantic onto hostile territory.
Remember, the US only joined the war against Germany in '41 because Hitler actually declared war on them.