Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
That is because US came LATE into the World Wars. They didn't deploy until after Pearl Harbor in 1941, in which the war had already went on for 2-3 years. And also due to the carriers being not present in the area, the US are able to have greater force projection in the Pacific, and subsequently one thing that won them the Battle of Midway.
Russia, of course, lost the most men due to Stalin's "not a step back!" tactic to push into the bloodbath.
Another thing to note is that the US are much better equipped than their Allied counterparts, given the fact that the Brits had to PURCHASE Tommyguns for firepower (the Bren gun is too heavy and only has a clip of 30 rounds, Tommy can chamber up to 100.) before coming up with the Sten, and the Russians and Germans had to copy the Garand's design to create a semi-auto replacement for their bolt action Mosin-Nagants.
One more thing to note about squad based firepower, is that the GIs had imba firepower compared to their German/Japanese counterparts, which consists of up to 2-4 tommyguns and a BAR per squad, PLUS the semi-auto Garands for successive fire and the M1A1 magazine-fed carbines for easier reload. The Germans have KAR-98s, MP40s (lower RPM) and occasionally a Gewehr/FG42/StG45 in which the last 2 were rolled out in late war. Since you have been through military training and should know something about contacts, I would just state that the group which has the most firepower in an initial contact usually wins.
Besides, the US had superior airpower, with the B-17 heavy bombers which can carry more bombs and is more mobile than the German Ju-88s. Also, US was out of range of the V2 and V1s, so their civilian deaths could be said to be 0. Only the Japanese manage to hit US (with a firebomb from a seaplane launched from a sub), but it only caused a small forest fire.
The US didn't exactly win or have less casualties by pure luck. They win and kill more by having bigger factories, superior firepower, and adaptable tactics (high buildings blasting, CQB, squad-based tactics and of course, that odd bayonet charge in Normandy).
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