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Originally Posted by bongodriver
and here lies another very important aspect of the Brits performance during the early conflict, those supply ships were being sunk at an alrming rate initially, but the Brits managed to take control of that situation too without the Americans direct involvement, it's all good and well claiming the Brits wouldn't have achieved anything without US support, being an island nation there was little choice but to have supplies imported from a friendly nation, at the time the US was under no obligations and could have pulled support at any time, if it wasn't for the sucesses of the British they would have....for obvious reasons.
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Nobody talks about "direct" involvement, though, or denies the obvious achievements of the british in this time period.