Conchie
Fair point. I was clearing out my mother's old house today before it's sold next week and found some of my Dad's old holiday snaps. Well, he went away to North Africa from 41/42. Lots of young English men (RAF) in those pictures who didn't make it back to England. Did it achieve anything? Well, yes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_campaign
Operation Torch in November 1942 was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to engage in the fight against Nazi Germany on a limited scale.[14] In addition, as Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, had long been pleading for a second front to be opened to engage the Wehrmacht and relieve pressure on the Red Army, it provided some degree of relief for the Red Army on the Eastern Front by diverting Axis forces to the North African theatre. Over half the German Ju 52 transport planes that were needed to supply the encircled German and Romanian forces at Stalingrad were tied up supplying Axis forces in North Africa.
What the Adolf's did was unforgivable. They bombed my grandads outside bog. 😁