Free French Hotchkiss H39 tanks during the Battle of Gabon
Date
27 October – 12 November 1940 (2 weeks and 2 days)
Location
Gabon, French Equatorial Africa
Result
Free French victory
Territorial changes
Free French Forces gain control over Gabon and the remainder of French Equatorial Africa from the Vichy regime.
Belligerents
Free France
French Chad
French Congo
French Cameroon
Naval support: United Kingdom
Vichy France
French Gabon
Commanders and leaders
Philippe Leclerc
Georges d'Argenlieu
John Cunningham
Georges Masson †
Marcel Têtu (POW)
Strength
Free French: 1,060 men[1] 1 aviso 1 minesweeper 1 cargo ship Royal Navy: 1 heavy cruiser 1 sloop
1,500 men[2] 1 aviso 1 submarine
Casualties and losses
20-100 killed 4 aircraft destroyed
At least 35 killed[3] 1 aviso destroyed 1 submarine scuttled
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Free French campaigns
Africa and Middle East
Dakar
Gabon
Keren
Exporter
Kufra
Bir Hakeim
Run for Tunis
Torch
Tunisia
Europe
Eastern Front
Husky
Corsica
Monte Cassino
Glières
Ist
Mont Mouchet
Overlord
Paris
Elba
Saint-Marcel
Vercors
Dragoon
Toulon
Marseilles
Lorraine
Dompaire
Strasbourg
Nordwind
Colmar Pocket
Alps
Indian Ocean and Asia
Réunion
Crimson
Indochina
North America
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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Military actions of Vichy France during World War II
1940
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
Gibraltar
Battle of Dakar
Battle of Gabon
Japanese invasion of French Indochina
1940 Bắc Sơn uprising
Franco-Thai War
1940 Cochinchina uprising
Đô Lương mutiny
Battle of Yang Dang Khum
Battle of Phum Preav
Battle of Ko Chang
1941
Battle of Angkor
Bombing of Phnom Penh
Syria–Lebanon campaign
Capture of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
1942
Battle of Madagascar
Operation Torch
Case Anton
Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon
Battle of Réunion
1944
Battle of Glières
Battle of Mont Mouchet
Battle of Vercors
Liberation of Paris
Battles of Khai Phat and Na Ngan
1945
1945 Ba Tơ uprising
Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
The Battle of Gabon (French: Bataille du Gabon), also called the Gabon Campaign (Campagne du Gabon),[4] occurred in November 1940 during World War II. The battle resulted in forces under the orders of General de Gaulle taking the colony of Gabon and its capital, Libreville, from Vichy France, and the rallying of French Equatorial Africa to Free France.
^"Histoires de Français Libres – Ordres de Bataille de la 1ère DFL – Gabon".
^Yannis Kadari, " The epic of the Royal Cambouis: The FFL tank company in combat (1040-41 – first part) ", Batailles et Blindés , Caraktère, n o 1,november 2003, pp. 4–15
^Jackson, Julian (2018). De Gaulle. Harvard University Press. p. 155.
^Kennedy, David M. The Library of Congress World War II Companion p. 466
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