✦ History

Battle of Gabon

November 7–12, 1940 · Gabon

Result Free French victory

Free French forces took Gabon from Vichy France. The victory gave the Free French control of all of French Equatorial Africa.

On the map Contemporaries

Free France

Vichy France

Other

Free France
Vichy France
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu military commander Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque military commander John Cunningham military commander
Marcel Têtu military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
20–100
Aircraft lost
c. 4
Strength
1,500
Killed
35
Ships
1
Ships lost
1

Units

1st Free French Division

Also involved 1