Well, I did mention Australia, though like most evil Americans I lumped NZ in with them.
But if you want to talk numbers, Aussie deaths in the Pacific theater were less than 2% of American Deaths. (1,820 as opposed to 95,660) I don't have figures for NZ. Commitments of Troops, ships, and materials were a similar proportion.
I don't mean to dismiss the sacrifices of Australian and New Zealand troops... any soldier who dies has given all he has. But France and Britain bought their places as countries at the grim table of European administration with deaths in the hundreds of thousands.
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Date: 2/12/10 05:49 (UTC)But if you want to talk numbers, Aussie deaths in the Pacific theater were less than 2% of American Deaths. (1,820 as opposed to 95,660) I don't have figures for NZ. Commitments of Troops, ships, and materials were a similar proportion.
I don't mean to dismiss the sacrifices of Australian and New Zealand troops... any soldier who dies has given all he has. But France and Britain bought their places as countries at the grim table of European administration with deaths in the hundreds of thousands.