Hans Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 This obscure piece of data seem elusive, anyone have a clue as to where I might obtain it?? Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco QNS Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Begin here: LE BLOCUS DE DJIBOUTI PENDANT LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE http://www.stratisc.org/pub/pub_LabrousseMROC_20.html 300 officiers et 8 000 hommes dotés d'un bon matériel constituaient les troupes de défense de Djibouti http://www.memoire-net.org/local/glma.html En 1940, il est lieutenant dans l´Ármée Coloniale à Djibouti ...A general view in: LE VERROU DE LA MER ROUGE L’armée et la côte française des Somalie 1884-1977 http://www.stratisc.org/partenaires/cfhm/rihm/82/RIHM_82_PAIRAULT2.html And here is what you are asking: http://stonebooks.com/history/somaliland.shtml At the beginning of 1939 France had quadrupled its garrison in French Somaliland. By the time Italy entered the war this amounted to, under General Le Gentilhomme, some 7000 men in seven battalions of Senegalese and Somali infantry, three batteries of field guns, four batteries of AA guns, a company of light tanks, four companies of militia and irregulars, two platoons of camel corps, and an assortment of aircraft: four Potez 631 reconnaissance-bombers eleven Potez TOE army cooperation biplanes three Morane 406 fighters two Potez 29 transport/liaison biplanes Regards. (( Edited to add: I doubt any reinforcements were possible in 1941, due to the blockade. )) [ August 14, 2003, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Paco QNS ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 Remercie mon français n'était pas jusqu'à trouver cette information! Hans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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