President Donald J. Trump doesn’t realize the importance of having friendly allies who want to work with the United States to keep mutual enemies at bay. He believes our military to be invincible because of the one-sided history taught in our schools.

            Allied Forces in Western Europe were mostly well led and supplied. The rifles were superior to the bolt action rifles of the German infantryman. However their machine pistols and machine guns were superior to BARS and Thompsons. The Sherman tank was designed to be built faster than the enemy could destroy them. Allied aircraft were superior to the German propeller aircraft. Their jets were game changers and if they had them two years earlier and in sufficient numbers it would have been suicide to fly across the channel. Without air dominance D-Day would not have happened.

            The real reason we were able to land on the Normandy Beaches wasn’t because of items above but because the Russian Stormavik planes, the T-34 tanks, and several million soldiers who kept fighting even when the losses didn’t matter to their leaders. When the D-Day soldiers came ashore two of the divisions they fought against were Ukrainians who had joined to fight the Russians. They were sent west because the German General Staff didn’t trust them and they were kept in secret about what the Germans were doing in the Ukraine. Most of the German army was needed to hold the Russians back from Germany. We didn’t like Stalin but we were allies.

            Without the Russians whittling down and keeping the Germans busy in Eastern Europe Hitler’s Reich might still be in power.