<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:23 PM, David Sanders <<a href="mailto:dsuzukisanders@gmail.com">dsuzukisanders@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> "[T]he Russians had more to do with the end of WWII than the US...."</blockquote></div> Anyone who has studied the European theater of operations must concede that compared with what the losses that the Russians (er, "Soviets") incurred on the eastern front, the allies on the western front had a cakewalk. <ul><li>The U.S. lost approximately three hundred thousand troops in western Europe ( <a href="http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2-loss.htm">http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2-loss.htm</a> );</li><li>In Eastern Europe the Soviet Union lost between eight MILLION eight hundred thousand and ten MILLION seven hundred thousand (and those numbers EXCLUDE civilian losses) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties</a>.</li> <li>(and I could very well add that Poland went through its very own unique Hell.....)</li></ul>--N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> & <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">http://www.libreoffice.org/</a> (Nathan Bahn)