"Mark Rand" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:24:55 +0100, Mark Rand
wrote:



You do realize that the number of British military deaths in the war
were 90%
as high as US deaths and total British deaths were almost 10% higher than
total US deaths. Those numbers are dwarfed by the numbers of Russian
deaths.


Correct myself. British Military deaths in WWII were 10% higher than US
military deaths.

Mark Rand
RTFM

But to put that in perspective you have to remember that at the time the
population of the U.S. was more than twice as large as that of the U.K. So
the British casualties were proportionally much higher than ours.

Hawke