Talk:Battle of Madagascar

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[edit] Campaign length of six months plus one day

I remember hearing a story, for which I can cite no source, that the Madagascar campaign lasted for one day more than six months, because French military pensions got bigger if you had been in combat more than six months. This does sound suspiciously plausible. If anyone could provide confirmation and/or a source to go with this story, I think it would provide an interesting addition to the article. KiwiBiggles 10:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

If it is true they may have been disappointed, since I believe Annet at least was convicted of treason by the post-war French gov't. Grant | Talk 11:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'Rhodesia' Flag

The flag shown for Rhodesia was not the flag in use during WW2. That flag was used between 1968-79. The Blue Ensign was used (with the colonial arms in the fly) and the name of the colony back then was 'Southern Rhodesia' and not 'Rhodesia'.

http://www.fotw.net/flags/zw-sr.html http://www.fotw.net/flags/zw-hist.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.71.214.97 (talk) 08:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)