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* ''Sgt Rock'' and his 1960s spin-off series ''The Losers'' had one small team of US commandos pretty much holding up the Allied war effort.
** But generally averted in the other major [[DC Universe]] WWII "team" series, ''[[Blackhawk]]'', about a multinational squadron of pilots where the leader is Polish (although sometimes he is a first-generation American of Polish descent). Even the American members of the team are generally immigrants or refugees from other countries.
* As did ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos''. At least Fury's team actually had a (stereotypical) British soldier on it.
* Averted in ''[[Atomic Robo]]'', where of the five issues dealing with the titular robot's exploits against Nazi super-science, three of them has him teamed up with British agents (including one extremely [[Badass]] and nigh-unintelligible Scotsman).
* Given a head nod in ''[[The Punisher]]: [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', when Frank is having a tense disagreement over tactics with [[Captain America (comics)]].
{{quote|'''Cap''': My ways stopped Hitler, boy.
'''Frank''': [[With Due Respect|No sir]], the Russians stopped Hitler. }}
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** Never mind that the [[Real Life]] Winston Churchill had a remarkable political and military career already long ''before'' [[WW 2]] broke out. The Brits didn't pick just any nobody for Prime Minister in 1940.
* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' was criticized for this in the UK, since the sole reference in the movie to any non-American involvement in the battle was a brief exchange on how "overrated" General Montgomery was. Of course, like its successor, ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'', the narrative maintains a narrow focus on a small unit who might not have encountered foreign Allied soldiers during their mission and might have actually espoused this opinion (Field Marshal Montgomery being not-very-popular with a large segment of the American military).
* Pretty much averted in the film ''The Great Raid'' about the Raid at Cabanatuan wherein the American Alamo Scouts with help from Filipino guerillas rescued a group of American POWs in the Philippines from a Japanese prison camp. The film showed just how critical the local forces were to the rescue by showing the guerillas holding back Japanese reinforcements at an important choke point and providing hundreds of carabao carts to quickly transport the weakened and diseased American POWs.
* Also averted in ''Saints and Soldiers,'' when the Americans rescue a downed British recon pilot and attempt to return him to friendly lines.
* Absolutely averted in ''[[The Longest Day]]''. It includes practically ''everyone''. Also the Germans. Memorable for its portrayal of German officers:
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* Spoofed in a 2006 ''[[The Daily Show]]''. Jon Stewart comments that the Iraq War has "gone on longer than [[WW 2]]"; Englishman John Oliver corrects him, that [[WW 2]] was going on for 2 years longer than the US involvement. Though Stewart wasn't correct until 2009, John Oliver wasn't historically correct ''either'' if the Sino-Japanese angle, considered a separate war in European countries, is factored in (which would place the start at July 1937).
* Explored in the episodes of ''[[Foyle's War]]'' which focus on the American entry into the war; whilst the American soldiers who appear are treated largely sympathetically, there's a certain amount of realistic tension between them and the British characters, many of whom take the attitude that they took their time to get involved and now seem to be taking over everything since they got here - and the American 'we're here to save the day' attitude doesn't entirely help matters or endear them.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' there is an alternate timeline where Lenin was assassinated, so quite naturally Germany didn't much bother with Russia and instead invaded the United States.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. "The City On The Edge Of Forever". Due to pacifist movement USA did not enter WW II, and Hitler won precisely because of it, causing humanity to be enslaved and never reaching the stars.
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in the [[Ken Burns]] documentary, ''[[The War]]'', as its format was specifically created to show, compare, and contrast WWII's impacts on 4 American towns and people from them. Since obviously few if any people from those towns would have been with the British, Russian or any other military, by default it focuses on the American parts of the war (although the British and Russians do get the occasional narrator-said nod).
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{{quote|[[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee: "So why does the US have such a fascination about a time that everyone else would rather just forget about and move on? Well, probably because that was the last war in which they did any good; when they had a clear win over an unambiguously evil villain who posed a genuine threat, rather than any of these wishy-washy recent wars where they just run in, stomp all over a developing nation and run out again declaring victory around the time the population have to start eating their own dead."]] }}
* ''Operation Darkness'' mixes this trope up a bit, by instead using Britain Wins The War. Both the plot of the game and its brief historical asides emphasize the British contribution to the war effort in the same way this trope does for the US. The funny thing? It's a Japanese game.
* Averted - ''probably'' - in ''[[Command
* Averted in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] [[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater|3: Snake Eater]]'' with the Cobra Unit, which while led by an American (and apparently a hugely patriotic one) contains at least two Russians and three people of unknown origin (all that's said is that they're from the Allied Nations). The game tells you rather erroneously that they all but won WWII as if all the other millions of Allied soldiers were just twiddling their thumbs at the Axis Powers.
* Averted in the ''[[Resistance]]'' series. The Chimera have pretty much steamrolled over all of Europe and Asia. In the sequel, they begin their invasion of the United States...and steamroll over ''them'' too. It's only the [[Super Soldier]] main character and his pals that achieve anything even resembling success.
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