In January 1943 "The Soviets on the Eastern Front were the only troops on the ground against Germany" in _Europe_.
British and then American troops had been fighting Germans and Italians in North Africa since June 1940. By the start of 1943 that campaign was becoming successful and in May it climaxed in the surrender of 250,000 Axis soldiers with all their equipment. For the North Africa campaign as a whole the Allies had suffered nearly 300,000 casualties while defeating multiple large Axis armies and capturing around 400,000 German and Italian troops.
Stalin at Casablanca waved off the above as a sideshow, and certainly the Soviets by that time had had a lot _more_ experience fighting Germans. Churchill understandably had a somewhat different view of things though.
Yes, I was so upset that the US is invoking "unconditional surrender" that I rushed. I did double check the origin of the term and didn't the conditions. I'll fix it since not everyone looks at comments. Thanks.
In January 1943 "The Soviets on the Eastern Front were the only troops on the ground against Germany" in _Europe_.
British and then American troops had been fighting Germans and Italians in North Africa since June 1940. By the start of 1943 that campaign was becoming successful and in May it climaxed in the surrender of 250,000 Axis soldiers with all their equipment. For the North Africa campaign as a whole the Allies had suffered nearly 300,000 casualties while defeating multiple large Axis armies and capturing around 400,000 German and Italian troops.
Stalin at Casablanca waved off the above as a sideshow, and certainly the Soviets by that time had had a lot _more_ experience fighting Germans. Churchill understandably had a somewhat different view of things though.
Yes, I was so upset that the US is invoking "unconditional surrender" that I rushed. I did double check the origin of the term and didn't the conditions. I'll fix it since not everyone looks at comments. Thanks.