I think depended on which side you were on, as it wasn’t always simple. I’m sure many of those on the wrong side didn’t see it how you do.
Follow Russia’s course through the war, or France (keeping in mind that the Vichy existed). There were factions all over the place and simplifying it down to right/wrong is too simplistic.
It’s not that one side was some paragon of virtue and the other pure evil. Stalin wasn’t a nice fella just because he was fighting Nazi. However, there was significant differences between American interment camps and their German or Japanese equivalents. Given a choice people would definitely chose being in a British POW camp vs a Soviet POW camp.
That is some truly incredible mental gymnastics.
In the 1940s the US was still an apartheid country lynching black citizens.
After the war he worked for the weather service which morphed into NOAA.
He had satellite images transmitted on Alden fax machines of the naval buildup around Cuba during the missile crises. The FBI interviewed him- ur uh threatened him on national security grounds.
He met my mom at Homestead air base in south FLA. my maternal side. all fought in WW2 as well.
It seemed everyone contributed a little. It was clear who was right and who was wrong. Those distinctions are less clear these days