The Abyssinian Campaigns : The Official Story of the Conquest of Italian East Africa

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Автор: Collective

Название: The Abyssinian Campaigns : The Official Story of the Conquest of Italian East Africa

Издательство: HMSO

Год: 1942

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 148

Язык: English

Размер: 27.5 MB

The East African Campaign was a series of battles fought in Horn of Africa during World War II by Allied (predominantly British Commonwealth) forces against Axis forces, primarily from Italy, between June 1940 and November 1941.

Allied forces involved, under the British Middle East Command, consisted of units from: British Commonwealth states including British East Africa, British Somaliland, British West Africa, the Indian Empire, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, the Mandate of Palestine, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Sudan and the United Kingdom; and Ethiopian irregular forces, Free French forces, and Belgian troops from Force Publique. The Axis forces included: units from the Italian Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali (recruits from Italian-occupied Abyssinia, Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland), Italian regulars and the small Compagnia Autocarrata Tedesca ("German Motorized Company"). The majority of the Italian forces were East African colonials led by Italian officers.

Fighting began with the Italian bombing of the Southern Rhodesian air base at Wajir in Kenya, and continued, pushing the Italian forces through Somaliland, Eritrea, and Ethiopia until the Italian surrender after the Battle of Gondar in November 1941.