| @rje_dobbin - India was not independent, but was always treated as a full belligerent (it was a separate signatory of the Declaration by United Nations, for instance, and declared war separately). Malta was neither, and should not be included. Egypt was independent during World War II, and remained officially neutral for the vast majority of the war (it finally declared war in early 1945). It was also host to a British army that spent much of the war fighting Germans. Of the other countries you mention, only the Philippines should be listed, as they, like India, were treated as a full belligerent even though they weren't fully sovereign. |