And the fact that we were still paying the bill for doing it up to 2006.
Spent over 60 years up to our arse in debt to the Americans.
And that included us buying on credit all the equipment that was given to the free french forces.
Then clearing a path so they could "Liberate Paris" in American tanks bought on British credit.
They got money pumped into their counties from the U.S to rebuild after the war. We got an invoice and told to make do with whatever smashed up crap we still had left

That's why we were still running clapped out steam trains on a worn out Victorian network well into the late 60s while they zoomed around on their shiny new high speed trains laughing at us for how far behind we were.
Any offers from them, the EU or any of the other formerly occupied countries to take their cut of the debt? Of course not. I mean, it's not like we pissed away a large percentage of it liberating their countries from tyranny is it

Should have just fortified the island, concentrated on fighting in the places that mattered to us and only us and left the ungrateful gits to the Nazis.
That is untill the Russians arrived then they could have had a few decades of that lovely socialism they are so fond of.