On the west wall of the World War Two Memorial, President Harry Truman's words honor the sacrifices that other nations made to defeat the Axis nations during World War Two:
THE HEROISM OF OUR OWN TROOPS…WAS MATCHED BY THAT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE NATIONS THAT FOUGHT BY OUR SIDE…THEY ABSORBED THE BLOWS…AND THEY SHARED TO THE FULL IN THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY.
As a Senator and later President of the United States during the final months of the war, Truman was well aware of the fact that we needed our allies to win the war against Germany, Italy, and Japan. Allies such as Britain, the Soviet Union, and China suffered devastating attacks on their homelands. Then they combined their power with the United States to defeat the Axis. Without their help, the Freedom Wall at the World War Two Memorial would have honored a much larger number of American dead.
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