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And Kicked it in the Revolution !
Yeah, but you were still British then, so it doesn't really count ! (Joke!). On the subject of WW2, we made the final payments on Lend Lease in the 1970's, & you still kept the bases we exchanged for clapped out destroyers (eg Campbeltown), but we don't bear grudges! (Another joke!)
On the subject of the thread, I've got to say that most researchers I expect are doing a job, they don't necessarily have any interest in what they are researching, so they will take the easy way out. There are a lot of people (including here on Armorama) who just hit the Internet first, & don't go any farther. There is an awful lot of rubbish on the Internet, & it can't be trusted without cross referencing. Example - my eldest daughter was researching Joan of Arc, & found a website that said Joan was the first feminist, dressed in mens clothing as a statement etc etc. On the site was a comment from a don in an American university saying please no one delete this site, it is a perfect example of Internet rubbish, & they were using it to illustrate how complete fabrications can become acceptable truths! Nor are published works much better, we are all familiar with the "churning" of regugitated bits of info in a different cover, eg Wehrmacht tank crews or anyone wearing a black uniform captioned as SS.
As far as accusations of the US writing history to suit themselves, I have to say why shouldn't they if no one is prepared to put it right? The US contribution to WW1& WW2 was immense in both men & material, so what if they were a bit "late" in both? There would have been no chance of an Allied victory without them in either war. While I don't believe Britain would have been invaded, I think in time there would have had to have been some sort of settlement with Germany, there was no hope for the British Commonweath & assorted "Free" allies of invaded Europe unaided (cf Dieppe). When my daughter was set an essay based around D Day a year or so ago, the teacher showed them part of SPR. Yes it only shows the American contribution, & the only mention of the UK is in a derogatory aside (which is historically inaccurate), but then I can't think of any British film made in the last 50 years which would have redressed the balance. We as a nation are in grave danger of losing much of our history, which is very much taken for granted. This is, by the way, I suspect deliberate government policy, as a country which doesn't know where it came from is much easier to lead in the direction they want to.
