East African Campaign (World War II)
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| Part of Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of the Second World War | |||||||||
 South African soldiers with a captured Italian flag, 1941 |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Australia
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Archibald Wavell Reade Godwin-Austen William Platt Alan Cunningham Haile Selassie Abebe Aregai Auguste Gilliaert
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Duke of Aosta Guglielmo Nasi Luigi Frusci Pietro Gazzera Carlo De Simone Nicolangelo Carnimeo |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| military operations to April 1941: 75,704 1,154 killed sickness/accident: 74,550 (dysentery: 10,000 malaria: 10,000, fatal: 744) Belgian: 462 dead aircraft: 138 subsequent operations: Gondar, 32 killed, 182 wounded, 6 missing 15 aircraft |
military operations to April 1941: 61,326 16,966 killed 25,098 wounded 19,262 POW aircraft: 250 surrender: 230,000 POW |
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| AOI casualties exclude Giuba and the eastern front | |||||||||
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