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Originally Posted by Rochard
Which islands did the French take away from Japan again? I must have missed that.
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I think he's referring to Indochina 1940,
my grand father fought there, as well as Algeria years later...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...ench_Indochina
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In September 1940, the Japanese invaded French Indochina (仏印進駐 Futsu-in shinchū?) in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan.[1] The fighting, which lasted several days before the French authorities reached an agreement with the Japanese, took place in the context of the ongoing Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Japan was able to occupy northern Indochina, tighten the blockade of China and make a continuation of the drawn-out Battle of South Guangxi unnecessary.
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