Yes, my dad was pretty old when I was born, so actually an engine room officer on small ship that landed troops on N. Africa, Palermo, and then Normandy. He said that "saving the jews" was unheard of idea for why we fought. They had one or two of them onboard as pursers and such, who were concerned about some aunt they had not heard from, but was chalked up as just unable to post letter as moved to a different country. He had good memory and also recalled his German-Ozark great-grandmother who washed his mouth out with soap as a toddler, if he spoke a word of "Dat vfeelthy Britain langvege" in her home, right after WWI.