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It was.
Some Europeans don't like to admit it (LOL at that - are they embarrassed they got bailed out, or just jealous?).
The US was absolutely key to the Allied victory. The US obviously didn't do it alone though - but saying that the US's involvement didn't make a difference is just being delusional.
The resentment is really odd, but whatever. Snipping Europe's balls, putting it under a collective security blanket, overseeing its constituent countries made all but economically co-dependent, opening its own markets for Europa to export its back to affluence during the post-war rebuilding process and ushering in what has been about the longest era of both sustained peace and prosperity in the continent's history is probably America's greatest post-1945 foreign policy achievement -- although there haven't been too many.