Henri Dentz
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Henri Fernand Dentz was a general in the French Army who served with the Vichy French Army after France surrendered during the Second World War. He was tried as a collaborator after the war.
Henri Dentz in 1940
Syria–Lebanon campaign
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The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War.
Henri Dentz
…mandates. On 8 June 1941, a force of approximately 20,000 Australian, Indian, Free French, and British troops, under the command of Sir Henry M. Wilson, invaded Syria and Lebanon from the British Mandate of Palestine and from Iraq. Fierce fighting ensued and the Vichy forces under Dentz progressively lost ground over a 13-day…
Australian troops among the ruins of the Sidon Sea Castle, Lebanon, July 1941
Captured French Martin 167F at Aleppo 1941
Indian troops outside Damascus
11 Squadron RAF Bristol Blenheim bombing Beirut, 1941