Enrico Cernuschi a écrit:According Gen. Weygand (and he was never attacked about htese points) in the French North Africa in June 1940:
there were no ammunition
no munitions factories
no chances for the British to deliver the necessary munitions (they were asking them in USA and accepted to pay cash for old WW I weapons and munitions of differen calibre, from rifles to guns)
no logistical facilities to recover and save in efficiency the whole of the French Navy and Air Force which had yet sailed for North Africa. The British arsenals too were unable to guarantee thar same efifciency (the FNFL were, until 1943, a tiny force; the USA only could manage the Dakar ships and even them had problems with that sort of logistical nightmare which was Richelieu, with her metre measures for any piece in comparison with the yard anglosaxon system)
Heu désolé, c'est surement intéressant, mais malheureusement, je ne parle (et ne lis pas l'anglais.![]()
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Lee Enfield
In a word it was impossible to run the French army in North Africa and the same logistical autonomy of the last colonial forces active there was quite a shot lived one, weeks at best, not a single month, then the lack of ammunitions, spare parts ect would have opened the doors of North and West Africa not to a 1940 DAK but at the simple Fire Brigate of Hamburg or Turin.
Bye
EC


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