Re: He should be proud that of that guy
NZ was involved. As was Oz, UK, France, Germany, Russia/USSR/Whatever it was at the time, Poland, Italy, Japan I believe, probably other European nations, I think some of the African nations, and maybe even some of the South American nations (Yes, NZ forces were fighting in American waters in 1939)
The US was there too.. Oh, no wait a minute. No, the US wasn't interested. Came in late, after the really hard work was already done, and try to take credit.
But that's irrelevant anyway. Most of that generation has died off, very few are left. The people we have today - the children they fought and died for - tend to be a bunch of disgusting lazy whiners - you need look no further than their obese sedentary bodies and their penchant for suing each other over the tiniest imagined slight for evidence of what I say :)