The French actually did the highest proportion of actual strikes (35%)

..and the Norwegians and Danish bombed the most targets in Libya in proportion to the number of planes involved.

There's a long list of European countries that stuck their oar in - its probably fair to say on that one that it was more 'our' (Europe's) show than the Yanks, at least in terms of the actual strikes.*

(*not wanting to downplay their role - the vast vast bulk of the in-flight refuelling was done by the Yanks and they also had a heavy front line role, but generally they deliberately wanted to take more of a back seat on that one. )

Posted By: CWC, Aug 27, 12:36:23

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