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* Sudan, June 1940: 9,000 November 1940: 28,000 4th Indian Division, January 1941. * Ethiopian: ''Arbegnoch'' (from January 1941) | strength2 = June 1940: 290,476 August 1940: 371,053 | casualties1 = battle: 1,154 sickness/accident: 74,550 (dysentery: 10,000 malaria: 10,000, fatal: 744) aircraft: 138 | casualties2 = 60,000+ 230,000 POW aircraft: 250 | notes = | campaignbox = }} The East African Campaign was fought in the Horn of Africa during World War II by Allied forces, mainly British Empire forces, against Axis forces, primarily from Italy, between June 1940 and November 1941. Allied forces, under the British Middle East Command, included units from the United Kingdom and the British colonies of British East Africa, British Somaliland, British West Africa, the Indian Empire, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, the Mandate of Palestine, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Sudan. Ethiopian irregular forces, the Free French and Belgian troops of the Force Publique also participated. Axis forces included units from the Italian ''Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali'' (recruits from Italian-occupied Abyssinia, Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland), Italian regulars, and the small ''Compagnia Autocarrata Tedesca'' (German Motorized Company). The majority of the Italian forces were colonial troops from the Horn of Africa led by Italian officers. Fighting began with an Italian bombing raid on the Southern Rhodesian Forces air base at Wajir in Kenya and continued until Italian forces had been pushed back through Somaliland, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. The remaining Italian forces surrendered after the Battle of Gondar in November 1941, except for scattered groups of Italian troops who refused to surrender fought a guerrilla campaign against the Allies for nearly two more years until the Armistice of Cassibile of 3 September 1943 ended hostilities between Italy and the Allies. ==Background== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East African Campaign (World War II)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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