Dunkirk

[keg in kc]

Putting aside the regional conflicts that continued well past 1945 and focusing just on the major Axis/Allied war itself, one facet of the eastern/western front debate is the development and use of atomic bombs. There's no telling how much longer the Pacific campaign would have lasted nor how many lives would have been lost had the battle versus Japan ended conventionally. It's odd to say it, but at the least hundreds of thousands were saved, perhaps millions.