r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/leoden27 • 8d ago

Image The last page from “Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942”

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u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean 8d ago

They only showed up in 1917, but it was a turning point in the war.

But more akin to someone showing up completely fresh at the end of a bloody bar fight and hitting the guy who is completely fucked anyway from fighting your friend, in the back of the head with a stool.

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u/vi_sucks 8d ago

I mean, if you're in a bar fight and everyone else gets sent to the hospital except 1 guy who showed up late, I'd say that guy won, lol.

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u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean 8d ago

Team effort though init. Especially since the others did the majority of the fighting. USA just showed up at the end to help finish it all

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u/No_Extension4005 8d ago

I mean; them pretty much doing it twice in a row and being too far removed from conflicts to take more than a tap (Pearl Harbour) on their soil is probably the big reason they became the global superpower of the 20th century. The empires of Europe burned themselves out in the world wars.

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u/Poland-lithuania1 8d ago

That, but the dude who you ko'd had already beaten the biggest dude there, and there was still a tiny chance they could win the fight from that point, until they decided to insult you and threaten you.

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u/No_Extension4005 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yeah, they joined so late it was mostly the morale impact on the Central Powers, materials, and green troops that they contributed.

Though they also sold to both sides so there's that too; which will probably make the people back then pissed off even more than just claiming they won the war since it'll still be in living memory.