| Battle of Gabon | |||||||||
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| Part of World War II | |||||||||
 Free French Hotchkiss H39 tanks during the Battle of Gabon | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
Naval support: United Kingdom | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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20–100 killed 4 aircraft destroyed |
At least 35 killed[3] 1 aviso destroyed 1 submarine scuttled | ||||||||
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