It is true that Canada ended up with the third largest Navy in the world at the end of WWII. However, the fact that the 1st and 2nd largest Navies (US and UK) eliminated the 3rd, 4th and 5th ranked WWII Navies (Japanese, German and Italian) might have had something to do with Canada’s naval ranking rising to number three...
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Well, that and the fact that the russians didn’t have anything that would float either, since the Germans and Japanese had sunk everything they had, including the harbour tugs...
Credit where it’s due, FRiend. I suppose you have some snide comment about how the 4th largest airforce was a fluke too, right?
We put a FAR higher proportion of our population under arms than ANY other allied nation. Including the russians. By some calculations, one in 6 Canadians were under arms during or after the war.
There is a LOT about WWII that you evidently are unaware of. “We won” is a great starting point, not the whole story.