✦ History

East African campaign (World War II)

June 10, 1940 – November 27, 1941 · East Africa

Result Allied victory

British and Commonwealth forces fought Italian forces in East Africa. They took Italian East Africa and restored Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia.

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United Kingdom

Kingdom of Italy

Other

United Kingdom
British Raj
Union of South Africa
Kenya
Nigeria
Australia
New Zealand
Ethiopia
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Belgian Congo
France
French Equatorial Africa
Gold Coast
Free France
Belgium
Kenya Colony
Italy
Italian East Africa
Abebe Aregai military commander Archibald Wavell military commander Alan Cunningham military commander Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen military commander William Platt military commander
Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta military commander Pietro Gazzera military commander Guglielmo Nasi military commander

Strength and losses

Aircraft
80

Ethiopia Killed c. 5,000

Belgium Killed 462

Free France Aircraft lost 2

Killed
16,966
Captured
c. 230,000
Tanks
63
Aircraft
323
Aircraft lost
250

Units

1st Free French Division 2nd (African) Division 5th Infantry Division (India) 11th Indian Infantry Brigade Ghana Regiment King's African Rifles South African Air Force
40th Infantry Division "Cacciatori d'Africa"
Royal Corps of Colonial Troops 1st (African) Division

Battles 4

Also involved 1