This page is a fledgling offshoot from the main France 1940 page and is just a convenient place to put some material that has been requested but doesn't quite fit in the 1940 time frame. This covers only Vichy forces for the time being but the Free French should make an appearance in a while.

VICHY FORCES :	[ Armée de L'Air ]	[ Aéronautique Navale ]	[ North Africa ]	[ Syria ]	[ Indochina ]	[ Madagascar ]
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Armée de L'Air [ Top of Page ]

Vichy Air Force Order of Battle, 1st September 1940

Aéronautique Navale [ Top of Page ]

Vichy Naval Air Service Order of Battle, 1st September 1940

North Africa [ Top of Page ]

Armée de l'Air and Aéronautique Navale Orders of Battle, 8th November 1942.

Ground forces in Tunisia Order of Battle, 8th November 1942.

Ground forces in Morocco Order of Battle, 8th November 1942.

Syria [ Top of Page ]

Armée de l'Air and Aéronautique Navale Orders of Battle, May-July 1941.

Off-site links : Bill Stone has posted some very good summaries of various campaigns on his site :

*Operation Exporter : Invasion of the French Levant* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Rashid Ali and the Golden Square at War* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

Madagascar [ Top of Page ]

Orders of Battle, May-July 1942.

*Operation Ironclad: Invasion of Madagascar* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Japanese Submarines at Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

Indochina [ Top of Page ]

Vichy France's Pacific Front presence, where its forces fought against Japanese, Thais and Japanese again.

Armée de l'Air and Aéronautique Navale Orders of Battle, Indochina 1940-42.

Ground forces Order of Battle, 1st February 1942.

French tanks and AFVs in Indochina, 1919-1945.

1941 Franco-Thai War situation maps and OB (large jpg files, requires a frame-capable browser)

Direct link for those without frame-capable browsers : Map 1 : Cambodia / Southern Laos Zone and Map 2 : Central and Northern Laos Zones (clicking on the units will bring up the relevant information at the top of a second window which is not very convenient).

Note : These maps are based on a variety of sources, I've tried to cross-check the information but some inconsistencies remain. The Thai units' location and strength are based on French intelligence estimates so could be very much off the mark.

*Vichy Indo-China vs Siam, 1940-41* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Siam Goes to War* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Vichy and Pearl Harbor* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Vichy Indo-China vs Japan, 1940* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

*Vichy OB in Indo-China, 1940-1945* (on Bill Stone's WW2 History site)

Misc. stuff [ Top of Page ]

Key to Organisation Charts and Abbreviations

If you have any comments, corrections, additions or whatever, tell me about it.

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