|
I started this thread, so I might as well throw in my 2c. now and then.
Do some of these totals distort the picture?
Johnny Johnson, AVM Parks, Sailor Malan, Al Deere...all RAF, but all of them (might have goofed one) colonials.
Perhaps as pointed out in the thread the lines blurred. Certainly the dutch viewed colonials as dutch (albeit sometimes with a difference).
Also totals might even out things, but as I pointed out earlier, did the same hold for all theatres etc.
West 1940 - numerically large French superiority
Med. / North Africa 1941/42 - probably more than 30% colonials (that I would like to see answered).
Singapore 1941/42
Burma 1941/42
Dieppe was a Canadian Op, wasn't it?
Normandy 1944 was roughly two thirds British, one third Canadian on the initial assault? I believe this innitial assault counted a little under one hundred thousand men, does anyone have the US number ready at hand?
The prolonged RAF campaign appears to be two thirds British.
But as I've been rightly pointed out, this should not be about an accusing finger nor based on personal bias.
__________________
Ruy Horta
12 O'Clock High!
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
|