You are so right - The Brits and the Americans saved the world from the Nazis and there are fewer and fewer of these brave soldiers alive today. We owe them everything and take so much for granted.
I recall viewing a rocket that was fired at England when at the British War Museum in London. Hard to imagine. The Brits were incredibly tough.
My Mom's four brothers served during WW 11 and two of her older sisters' husbands -- South Pacific theatre and Europe - northern Africa, Italy, France. Unimaginable.