[lqclamar]

Funny comment, coming from someone who tries to sneak Gabon's 1% muslim population into a description of all of French Equatorial Africa.

Typical lie from a chronic liar. I "snuck" no such thing in, unless, of course, you deny that Gabon is only 1% muslim.

Here are the average recruitment breakdown from 1920-1947

1. What's your source?
2. What are the precise numbers? 22.01% means very little without the number it is a percentage of.
3. 1920-1947 is a long time, most of it OUTSIDE of the WWII period. The troops in question were 1939-1945 only, so provide those numbers.

[zimdog]

I "snuck" no such thing in, unless, of course, you deny that Gabon is only 1% muslim.

You focused on Gabon's miniscule Muslim population in #255, willfully eluding the much larger Muslim populations in other French Equatorial Africa colonies.

1. What's your source?

Myron Echenberg, Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 (Portsmouth and London, 1991), p. 53.

Echenberg's sources for the numbers are the annual recruitment reports of the 2G, 4D, and 5D series in the Senegalese National Archives, Fondes Modernes.

2. What are the precise numbers? 22.01% means very little without the number it is a percentage of.

This issue was addressed in #274, which you clearly did not read.

3. 1920-1947 is a long time, most of it OUTSIDE of the WWII period. The troops in question were 1939-1945 only, so provide those numbers.

From the numbers published in Echenberg's book, recruits from the French Sudan (approx 22% of West African military recruits, as demonstrated above) numbered 3163, 6950, 7558, 8550, 11000, 6429, and 5109 for the respective years in question.