[Ryzorian]

Throwing masses of troops into machine guns and hopeing the enemy ran out of bullets before you ran out of malnurished troops doesn't really bespeak of sound tactical judgement. It's just a pure numbers game, I have more guys than you, I can afford to loose them and you can't, therefore I win.

It's more like suicidal chess, a really synical fighting style. The US never has played war that way, we perfer destroying as much of the enemy as possible before our troops even get there. Like how we bombed the German factories so they couldn't provide enough equipment for the eastern front.

The US was key to winning WW2, It wasn't just the fighting part, it was the supply part, the US supplied the allies with pretty much everything after a certain point. It doesn't mean the US did all the heavy lifting persay, Russia certainly did a major amount of that, certainly more in blood than the US did I admit that. It simply means the US's role was the linchpin for the whole effort.

Kinda like the Goal Keeper in Soccer, he isn't as active as the front guys are but you can't win without one.

As to Nagasaki and Horishima, what's the point here? You don't think anyone else at that time wouldn't have used such weapons if they had gotten them first? I suppose the US got lucky on that score, allthough you can thank the German scientists that built it for them.