“They weren’t really ‘losing’ in November 1943 yet.”
Uh, yes they were. North Africa and Sicily were already lost, and the allies had invaded Italy. We were bombing Germany nightly, and the U-boat fleet was under very heavy pressure. On the Eastern Front, Stalingrad had been lost completely in January of ‘43, and Kursk’s massive loss was the prior summer. If that’s not losing, what is?
“Uh, yes they were. North Africa and Sicily were already lost, and the allies had invaded Italy. We were bombing Germany nightly, and the U-boat fleet was under very heavy pressure. On the Eastern Front, Stalingrad had been lost completely in January of ‘43, and Kursk’s massive loss was the prior summer. If that’s not losing, what is?”
Invading two sovereign nations, establishing bases, supporting the formation of a new governments constitutions, overseeing the formation and training of new national armies while fighting off daily attacks from the fifth column in Congress at the cost of 3000 lives over 5 years.