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Description: Page from a British army publication highlighting episodes of the Allied land blockade of Vichy-controlled French Somaliland, enforced primarily by the King's African Rifles (KAR) from British East Africa. Top, left: Chief Officer of the KAR is interrogating a native blockade runner; Top, right: A KAR observation post at Warre Kafule; Center: Free French Senegalese soldiers deployed on the frontier across from Loyada; and Bottom: a truckload of Tanganyikan soldiers of the KAR.
Title: Djibouti blockade 1941
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Author: British Army (Crown copyright), 1941
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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