Great+Britain

Great Britain was one of the 3 major Allied powers in World War II. During the early war years, it was mauled all over the world. First, the Germans crushed them in France and Greece. Then, the British were creamed in east by Japan's mighty navy. All in all, Great Britain received most of the brunt of the Axis advance Having lost most of their empire in the far east, the British could only hope to defend their homeland and beat back the Germans in the deserts of Africa. In England itself, the pilots of the RAF (Royal Air Force), were in decent moral for having been shot out of the sky at Dunkirk. Fending off the Germans day and night, the British kept fighting and finally beat off the German Luftwaffe and the threat of an invasion of England. In Africa, it is much the same story. The British defeated Rommel at El Alemein and pushed him back all the way to square one, mostly because of the sheer mass of Field Marshal Montgomery's forces.