And we paid them for that.

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  2. A division is about 10,000 to 30,000 soldiers for anyone wondering. It’s usually the smallest formation that is self sufficient.

    Edit: by “self sufficient” I mean it has its own logistics, engineers, medical units, artillery, air defence, communications, reconnaissance etc, so it can maintain an offensive/ defensive action for several months without external support.

  3. Like always, turn up fucking late when the leg work has been done and strut around like they’ve achieved something significant.

    Cunts.

  5. Same thing in WW II. Leeching before entering the war. Then after the war consolidating the new market in non-Sov occupied Europe.

    Also: Belgium still has 14. Platoons.

  7. When I was like 16 I had a history teacher. He was nice, but he had some really weird gaps in his knowledge. He claimed that the US ‘saved Europe in both world wars’ which just isn’t true for the first war, their effect was more psychological on the German command.

    He also taught us about the Cuban Missile Crisis and didn’t mention that the US had missiles in Turkey. I brought that up and just straight up didn’t know that.

  11. *Nation comes to aid of other nation in a war for survival*

    Every other nation: Thank you so much!

    France: *I can’t believe that you’ve done this.*

  12. The US enterign was important af. It wasnt really their army that freaked us out, but their potential. the US entering forced us to go for an all or nothing attack, wich we lost. Then you won. Without the US entering The entente would have had a hard time winning.

  13. Don’t forget the UK had to pay the US for decades after WW2 too for aid and support.

  16. >And we paid them for that.

    You paid them because they loaned you massive sums of money to finance the war.

  20. I don’t blame them at all. Why should they have escaped Europe in the 1700s to come back and die 200 years later in yet another pointless war that only benefited the European aristocracy? And WW1 was especially horrific.

  21. I mean they did help to end the war, maybe not with a lot of their own blood spilled but the Germans could simply see no route to victory once the US properly joined the front. So as much as people love to hate on the US when they say they won both world wars it is a correct statement.

  25. To be fair, American divisions were a bit larger than European divisions. Usually about 28,000 men per division, as opposed to 10-20k in European ones. So 10 divisions was like 280,000 men. Still no joke.

    Also should be noted that the US deployed about 42 divisions to Europe by war’s end, not 10. So roughly 1.2 million men.

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