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East African Campaign (World War II)

East African Campaign
Part of Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of the Second World War
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South African soldiers with a captured Italian flag, 1941
Date 10 June 1940 – 27 November 1941
(1 year, 5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location East Africa
Result Allied victory
Territorial
changes
Fall of Africa Orientale Italiana (Italian East Africa)
Belligerents

 United Kingdom

 Belgium

 South Africa
 Free Ethiopia
 Free France

 Australia

 Italy

Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom Archibald Wavell
United Kingdom Reade Godwin-Austen
United Kingdom William Platt
United Kingdom Alan Cunningham
Ethiopian Empire Haile Selassie
Ethiopian Empire Abebe Aregai
Belgium Auguste Gilliaert
Duke of Aosta
Guglielmo Nasi
Luigi Frusci
Pietro Gazzera
Carlo De Simone
Nicolangelo Carnimeo
Strength
  • Kenya, June 1940: 9,975
    November 1940: 70,000
    South African: 27,000
    East African: 33,000
    West African: 9,000
  • Sudan, June 1940: 9,000
    November 1940: 28,000
  • Ethiopian: Arbegnoch (from January 1941)
Casualties and losses
military operations to April 1941: 75,704
1,154 killed
sickness/accident: 74,550
(dysentery: 10,000
malaria: 10,000, fatal: 744)
Belgian: 462 dead
aircraft: 138
subsequent operations: Gondar, 32 killed, 182 wounded, 6 missing
15 aircraft
military operations to April 1941: 61,326
16,966 killed
25,098 wounded
19,262 POW
aircraft: 250
surrender: 230,000 POW
AOI casualties exclude Giuba and the eastern front

 United Kingdom

 Belgium

 South Africa
 Free Ethiopia
 Free France


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