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Yeah, those guys were heroes! I read a history of the SEALS recently and about the job the underwater demolition teams had before the Normandy invasion: small teams of guys in rubber rafts had to sneak up on the beach and try to blow up the underwater defenses and mines that would have kept the landing crafts from hitting the beaches at all...seriously crazy stuff!
The other factor in WWII that is getting overlooked in this thread is that NOT ONLY were US troops committed to the war in Europe against the Nazi's AND the Italian Fascists, but troops and naval resources were also committed to fighting in the Pacific against a very dedicated Japanese military. The US successfully waged a war in multiple theaters of operation simultaneously! (and often with inferior equipment -- the M4 Sherman tank was inferior to the Panzer's the German's had during the Battle of the Bulge).
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