I agree. It's alot like how many people believed the Mustang won the war, or the Spitfire won the battle of Britain, truth is, it was the Hurricane that did the dirty work, and swung the balance. And of course the Mustang did not come into it's own until the Rolls Royce Merlin was introduced, the rest is history...
Many people are educated badly by their governments which is the reason for many believing that America won the second world war. Nothing is perfect, everything has it's flaws, certainly you can't not be amazed at the stats of the Battle Of Britain, 1500 aircraft VS 600, and the balance was swung in favour of the RAF. Of course, there was a similar scenario 2 years later at Pearl Harbour, arrogance prevented the US Army from meeting the Japanese Navy in the air over the sea instead of on the ground at Hawaii.
Many stories to be told of the past!!
Did anyone notice, how in U-571, the characters were played by Americans, even though it was a British mission to capture the code machine from the Germans, which involved a British Sub and british sailors?
Getting back to the topic....i notice no one has mentioned Pearl Harbor as one of the better War Films, sure, it drivvled on with the love triangle story which so often shapes movies about War, but one must not forget the action sequences. Was anyone else impressed with the portrayal of the Battle Of Britain? I sure was!