I knew an old guy who said during WW2 he joined the army and went to Africa. What was he doing there? (I didn’t know him very well and he’s probably dead now so I can’t ask him directly). Was there any war related stuff going on in Africa?
I knew an old guy who said during WW2 he joined the army and went to Africa. What was he doing there? (I didn’t know him very well and he’s probably dead now so I can’t ask him directly). Was there any war related stuff going on in Africa?
Alongside the north Africa campaign someone else posted there was also combat in west Africa pushing the Italians out of Ethiopia and Somalia. There was also fighting to take control back from Vichy France’s colonial holdings with the main one coming to mind being the invasion of Madagascar in 1942.
Minor correction… Ethiopian and Somalia are in eastern Africa on or near the Horn.
I thought the horn was the southern tip of Africa. If it’s that eastern thing, what is the southern tip?
The Horn of Africa
Cape of Good Hope (Capetown)? That’s obviously there, but that’s the item I remember form school in regards to global sail routes
That’s it. And now I see that the southern tip of south america is cape horn. So we have cape horn, cape of good hope, and the horn of africa… couldn’t they be just a little bit more original on the horns…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War
I only know about this because of Paradox grand strategy games