I’d say that our fuel, food, and equipment and our tying down the Japanese made victory possible for the Allies. Our largest contribution to the European theatre was our sea power before and after our entry and our Air Power after we entered the war.
As far as our ground forces in the European Theatre, we fought a depleted Africa Korps (that didn’t even have Rommel at this point) and still managed to get our asses handed to us at Kasserine Pass, never managed to take Italy, and, thank God for George Patton or Ike, Brad, and Monty would have stood at Normandy with their thumb up their ass until the Russians met them on the French coast sometime in early ‘46 (which at times I’ve wondered if that wasn’t the plan all along).
But, yes, Flave is right. Without our equipment, Navy, and Air Force, the whole of Europe would be speaking German……
The soviet fleet had total control in their theatre...un opposed virtually by the germans...the germans had almost no surface fleet and the Russians certainly didn't need our fuel or tanks. We gave them trucks...we gave them spam...and made promises. Thats about it.
We did provide obsolete p-39s and very limited numbers of p-40s but with little to no spare parts they made little difference. By and large the russians flew soviet plans and drove soviet tanks and fired soviet small arms...and raped german women
