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From 5 May to 6 November 1942, another major operation by British forces against Vichy French territory was launched, the Battle of Madagascar. The British feared that Japanese Navy might use Madagascar as a base and thus cripple British trade and communications in the Indian Ocean. As a result, Madagascar was invaded by British and ...
L'aviation de Vichy au combat: les campagnes oubliées 3 juillet 1940 – 27 novembre 1942 [The Vichy Air Force in Combat: The Forgotten Campaigns]. Grandes batailles de France. Vol. I. Paris: C. Lavauzelle. ISBN 978-2-7025-0092-7. Jenkins, E. H. (1979). A History of the French Navy: From its Beginnings to the Present Day. London: Macdonald and ...
Vichy is an unincorporated community in southern Maries County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on U.S. Route 63 , approximately 10 miles north of Rolla . The community was founded in 1880 and is named after Vichy , France . [ 2 ]
The Battle of La Ciotat was a naval engagement in August 1944 during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon. Allied forces, engaged at the main landings in Vichy France, ordered a small flotilla of American and British warships to make a feint against the port city of La Ciotat as a diversion.
British and French troops landed in Saigon on September 12, with their commander, MG Douglas Gracey, arriving the next day. Gracey's headquarters instructed him, on the 13th, to exercise control only in limited areas, at French request, and after approval by the Southeast Asia [theater] Command under Field Marshal Sir William Slim. He was ...
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy, lit. 'Vichy regime'; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established after the French capitulation after the defeat against Germany.
Anglo-French War (1202–1204) – French invasion of Normandy; Anglo-French War (1213–1214) – conflict between King Philip Augustus and King John of England; Anglo-French War (1215–1217) – the French intervention in the First Barons War; Anglo-French War (1224) – known as the Poitou War; Anglo-French War (1242–1243) – known as ...
The British destroyer Havock ran aground off Kelibia. Her crew and passengers were captured and interned by the Vichy French. The Indian sloop HMIS Indus was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft off Akyab. Naotake SatÅ, the new Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, presented his credentials to Vyacheslav Molotov. [1]