Significant1940

Italian conquest of British Somaliland

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Tug Argan · Berbera

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Italian forces under Guglielmo Nasi forced the only British colonial-territory loss of WWII at Tug Argan and Berbera.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
United Kingdom

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)

Conflict graph

PART OFEast African Campaign (World War II)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Italian conquest of British Somaliland (1940). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/italian-conquest-of-british-somaliland · Sources & methodology