I might also add that because the Royal Navy with allied ships dominated the Channel in 1944, we were able to launch D-Day, which was the beginning of the end for the Nazi Holocaust.

@JoshuaYJackson Andrew Neil On Jun 6, 1944 Alone, 4,414 Allied soldiers gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy to push Germany out of France, freeing it from tyranny. We succeeded, because of lessons learned from the earlier Dunkirk and Dieppe landings. We ended Hitler's reign of terror 15 months later

@JoshuaYJackson Andrew Neil It's unlikely any other option would yield a quicker victory, so D-Day arguably resulted in the dissolution of Hitler's Machinery of Terror and the Death/Concentration camps in quite a short space of time.

@SamTaylorTG4 @JoshuaYJackson Andrew Neil As I understood it, it was the 20 Russian divisions and not the 5 US with the 1 UK division which won the war.