Chronology of World War II
Friday, June 6th
Operation E
XPORTER
: The Syria-Lebanon Campaign
Movement of Allied forces into Syria and Lebanon, June 8 to July 14, 1941. Australians comprised the largest number of Allied combatants (18,000 men), followed by British (9,000), French (5,000), and Indian (2,000) forces. On the Vichy side there were 8,000 French and 25,000 Syrians and Lebanese.