Help needed on French OOB of Djibouti in 1940-41

[Hans]

This obscure piece of data seem elusive, anyone have a clue as to where I might obtain it??

Thanks

[Paco QNS]

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 ]

[Hans]

Remercie mon français n'était pas jusqu'à trouver cette information!

Hans

[Quinxi]

Huh?