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2017-07-24 10:38:59
[–]agoyalwmSpooked by Balkan Ghosts[S] 563 점 2 일 전에
Fair enough. No, I haven't found a source that specifically calls out the percentage, but here's what I can find:
The overall composition of the French army comprised 9% African soldiers in 1940. What we do know is that as French units faded or surrendered, many of the white soldiers could blend into the local population, and stayed, whether to join the resistance or stop fighting. Black soldiers, who could not easily do the same, continued to retreat with the army to Dunkirk, so of those 9% a disproportionately high amount were there (source on both of these). We also know that the core of the Free French Army, formed fairly soon after French arrival in Britain, was its African contingents. African recruitment to the French side remained high, to the point that the French army was 60% black or North African by the time they returned in 1944.
So, no specific number for the battle, but no reason it would be low given the numbers immediately before and after.
[–]FirstEstate 273 점 2 일 전에*
If they were portrayed in the movie, would it be more accurate to see them fighting alongside white soldiers, or in segregated units?
I hate that I have to clarify, but this is a genuine question. I have no agenda, except that I love learning new history.
[–]Yeti_Poet 159 점 2 일 전에
Not an expert, but I know a couple things from a good AskHistorians thread last week. One is that the french colonial troops were in their own units, but that unit cohesion was very low at Dunkirk, which would indicate a lot of mixing (men were commonly separated from their units). On the other hand, the colonial units were mostly being used to guard the rear, so they may not have been subject to as much of the chaotic mixing occurring at the shoreline. It is not clear and no one there know of any sources to give any good indication of how segregated or mixed the units would have been, largely because Dunkirk was a mess. :
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