[lqclamar]

Now that I found the book and have given you more specific numbers, you can see that the earlier, rougher figures were also significantly lower than the more detailed evidence suggests.

And yet you still dabble only in percentages, and then only in certain countries while excluding others. Every time I press you for actual specific troop numbers and actual tasks, unit assignments, and places of deployment you retreat back into vague generalizations and demand I construct whatever present number you purport to be following from the litter trail of percentages, half-sourced claims, and guesstimates you've dropped all over this thread. It strongly suggests that you are trying to hide something, which would not be the first time you did so on this subject.

Contrast that to what I've given you for the 13th Waffen-SS, including the specific recruitment number, the specific muster numbers for 3 different dates in the war, and the specific places they fought.

Truly, that sort of information should not be at all difficult for you to produce:

1. State the total number of colonial FFL troops from 1939-1945.

2. State the total number of FFL troops from 1939-1945 supplied by colony, or in percentage by colony WITH REFERENCE to a precise total figure that those colonies provided collectively.

3. Provide some basic information about the capacity in which these troops served such as unit or division, along with a basic record of the dates and locations of battles in which those units or divisions fought.

[zimdog]

1. State the total number of colonial FFL troops from 1939-1945.

1,250,000 FFL troops by the end of the war.

2. State the total number of FFL troops from 1939-1945 supplied by colony, or in percentage by colony WITH REFERENCE to a precise total figure that those colonies provided collectively.

In World War 2 "The Tirailleurs Sénégalais made up the lion’s share of the colonial troops (275,354 men, total), followed by the Indo-Chinese units (88,898 men)." -- Raffael Scheck in his article on African POWs in the Second World War, in the Journal of Modern History, July 2005

3. Provide some basic information about the capacity in which these troops served such as unit or division, along with a basic record of the dates and locations of battles in which those units or divisions fought.

See above.