Just a point of interest that is oft overlooked. The Empire did fight along side The United Kingdom at a very crucial point in the war. Maybe a more interesting question would be 'How long would Britain have been able to hold out without the Commonwealth to support them? And maybe more importantly what would the world be like today if they hadn't?'
In the important period between the fall of France and Pearl Harbour the efforts of the Commonwealth in general and India and the Dominions in particular made sure that there was a bastion of the free world from which the economic and military juggernaut of the United States could advance from.
Without that Commonwealth effort, as slight as it may be seen to many, America would have stood alone against the world. America's might was the key to knocking down the Axis, but it was the Commonwealth committed efforts in standing to the guns in 1939 that guaranteed that success.
Sorry for the diatribe, but the sacrifices of the British Commonwealth made on behalf of free people the world over is too often down played or overlooked.
In the important period between the fall of France and Pearl Harbour the efforts of the Commonwealth in general and India and the Dominions in particular made sure that there was a bastion of the free world from which the economic and military juggernaut of the United States could advance from.
Without that Commonwealth effort, as slight as it may be seen to many, America would have stood alone against the world. America's might was the key to knocking down the Axis, but it was the Commonwealth committed efforts in standing to the guns in 1939 that guaranteed that success.
Sorry for the diatribe, but the sacrifices of the British Commonwealth made on behalf of free people the world over is too often down played or overlooked.