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Anyway, Churchill didn't win the war by defeating Germany outright as the Soviets did but through staying steady and listening to his Generals. Britain contributed by the war through it's naval efforts but also by preventing the Axis from taking North Africa and then threatening or taking the British Oil fields in the Middle east, by proving a staging area for the invasion of France when it could occur and by tying up large numbers of Soldiers and resources that could have been sent to the eastern front. The Germans threw large numbers of aircraft into Britain itself and threw resources and men into holding France in anticipation of an Invasion but they also had to place men in the Balkans, North Africa and Norway. There were actually a reasonable number of men in all these areas that could have much better been used elsewhere, there was a whole army in Norway that sat on their thumbs for the entire war, solely because Hitler was concerned Britain would invade.

Britain was the thorn in Germany's side thorough the entire war, had they not been there Germany and even Italy would have been able to sent much more to the east and would have taken the Persian oilfields as well. And Churchill kept trying to launch pre-emptive invasions of France and Norway, long before they could have realistically had a chance of holding it. Had they done that it's likely they would have de fanged themselves as they really didn't have the men to lose on such adventures thus Germany would have been given more of a free hand and would likely have won the war. But he didn't, however much he tried it never happened.