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Originally Posted by spidge  If I recall correctly, Australian Bomber Command veterans were 2% of all Australian volunteers in the 2nd world war and almost 23% of the casualties.
They too paid the price for a free Europe. |
I referring to all those from the British Commonwealth of Nations and indeed all who gave service within Bomber Command.I would think at the time, Australasia would be comprised of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand but collectively known as the states, with others,which formed the then British Empire.Hence "of the then British Empire"
"Empire" a description of such federated states which as a noun tended to be banished post 1945 but nevertheless was widely used in a motivational way to the masses in directing the war against Germany and Japan.
As regards statistics,does the 23% RAAF quoted refer to the total number of World War 2 Australian dead.According to Bomber Command,the RAAF dead total was 4050,(7.3% of Bomber Command dead) which gives about 17600 Australian dead in World War 2, which, on first inpection appears low?.