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Britain was central to Allied victory in World War II. Some British contributions:The Royal Air Force defeated the Luftwaffe in the Battle Of Britain (1940/41), thus destroying the myth of Germany's invincibility. Southern England was the staging ground for D-Day. If Britain had fallen to the Nazis, there would have been no springboard to invade Normandy and ultimately defeat Hitler. Britain supplied and trained resistance movements all over Europe. British commandoes wreaked havoc on German submarine bases and other communication and supply lines.British, ANZAC and South African troops first drove the Italians out of North Africa and then defeated the Germans at El Alamein in 1942. The Axis defeat in North Africa provided the opportunity for the invasion of Europe via Italy as the newly-arrived American troops joined forces with the British and colonial soldiers. British and Indian forces tied up the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma for the duration of the war.

Britain's airborne divisions shared the responsibility for vital pre-D Day landings with the US.British paratroopers of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry captured the key Pegasus bridge the night before the Normandy invasion - renowned US military historian Stephen E Ambrose believes the invasion might have failed without this.

British and Canadian soldiers were responsible for Gold, Sword and Juno beaches on D-Day June 6 1944.

British commando and long-range recconaissance troops were the pre-cursors of modern-day special forces and fought successfully behind the lines on many fronts.The Royal Navy captured a German submarine carrying an Enigma coding machine which enabled the Allies to decipher German radio traffic.

It is incorrect to consider the British as minor allies of the United States in WWII. That perception is a modern one, brought about no doubt by Britain's relative military insignificance today. Britain's imperial power was on the wane when the war started but she still commanded vast resources, notably the allegiance of the soldiers of the Empire: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and India. Britain was the mainstay of the struggle against the Nazis for two years before America entered the war. America would certainly not have defeated the Nazis on her own, while Britain would most likely have eventually been forced into a treaty with Hitler if America had not supplied her with money and weapons and later entered the war.

AddendumThe above answer is excellent. I'd just like to add something.

It's not widely cited as a key British contribution as there are ethical and military problems. From 1941 onwards Britain poured immense resources into its fleets of strategic bombers. The expense was vast. Between 1942 and D-Day, the RAF bombers were easily the most powerful and spectacular single weapon in Allied hands in Western Europe. Unfortunately, Bomber Command under Arthur Harris was addicted to area bombing. As a German expert on the war in Europe (Helmut Schnatz) observed more than once: if the RAF bombers had been used rationally and had focused single-mindedly on the plants making synthetic oil and on the transport network, the war In Europe could have been shortened by several months - possibly more.

On the other hand, as an ex-Nazi told me, the frequent British air raids on cities in the Ruhr and Rhineland and other major cities probably did more than anything else to prevent the rise of another 'stab-in-the-back' legend. In many of the badly affected areas even hitherto loyal Nazis gradually came to see that Germany was utterly defeated and the Fuehrer just didn't care about their well-being or about defending them.

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