Posted by dhermesc on February 24, 2011 at 05:49:35 from (24.248.193.103):
In Reply to: OT/ Paris posted by ILLEFTY on February 24, 2011 at 04:37:24:
there is a sign that says that the USA didn't do as much for France in WW1 as they want everyone to think.
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The French didn't do as much for France as they would like everyone to think either. Their troops abandoned the trenches in 1917 and literally went on strike. The only thing that saved them was the German troops on the opposite side of the line were so accustomed to the static lines they didn't even notice the French had left (how’s that for fighting spirit?)
Without the American troops Germany would have won the war in the spring offensive of 1918. Without American goods shipped to the Allies the Germans would have won the war in 1916.
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