Holiday reading fact no.1
In 1947, after war demobilisation but before the defence budget increases of the Korean war, the UK had:A full naval fleet in the Atlantic, another in the Mediterranean and a third in the Indian ocean, together with a permanent 'China station'.
120 Royal Air Force squadrons worldwide.
Armies or part of armies in Hong Kong, Malaya, Persian Gulf, North Africa, Trieste, Austria, West Germany and the UK.
[in reply to which members of the H'S'JS might say 'and what has changed?']
Source: Post War by Tony Judt
posted by Matthew @ 7/13/2008 09:20:00 AM
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