Saved our bacon? You've been watching too many hollywood war movies mate. Who held Hitler at the edge of Europe? Who designed the bombs that blew up the dams running german power stations, who endured the blitz, who put up with rationing until the fifties, who beat the Luftwaffe over the channel? There were more polish and canadians in the sky then then americans, they were too busy sitting at home being *****es thinking 'they'll never bother coming over here'. Thats cowardice my friend, the americans even ****ed up the parachute landings backing up D-day and they all got lost. You rock up late because Japan blew up Pearl Harbour, good for you, real *****ing heros. We don't get on with the french but they had to help you to get at us in the war of independence, but for us and the british army, you would be speaking french right now because i cant see Napolean owning the majority of the knopwn world but thinking 'i'll leave the rest josephine'. I suggest you go read some history and find out all about european cowardice, start with the history of britain, it'll be an experience for you reading about something more than a few centuries old.
MUG.