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Population: This page has a comparison of population and industrial capacity. The US had about 132 million, while the UK had about 48 million in population.

Australia was very necessary to the allied war effort in 1941. A second front couldnt be maintained in North Africa without us, and New Guinea was undefendable without us. In the second half of 1943, as New Guinea was won, Australia had 450,000 troops there to the US\'s 280,000 IIRC.

We were impossible to ignore. At the end of the war, Australia\'s air force was the forth largest in the world behind America\'s, Russia\'s and Britain\'s. We were pretty bg in WWII. The sad fact is, the politicians played us as small, and our politicians sucked that myth up.

Churchill and MacArthur had no reason to view us as anything but colonials and dominion, because Menzies and Curtin behaved that way. WWII is a dismal endightment on our political leaders, and Menzies and Curtin should be censured constantly for it.

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