The ABSOLUTELY essential key to the postal history of the overseas empire is the date of the switch from Vichy French fealty.

• The ABSOLUTELY essential key to the postal history of the overseas empire is the date of the switch from Vichy French fealty.
• TABLE I: Switched FROM Vichy France by Date
• August 26, 1940: Chad* and French Equatorial Africa (included Chad, Cameroun, French Congo,

Ubangi-Chari, but not including Gabon.

• Sept., 1940 French India, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Condominium of New Hebrides,
• November 1940: Gabon
• July 1941: Syria, Lebanon
• December 1941 St. Pierre and Miquelon
• May 1942: Wallis and Futurna Islands
• November 1942: Algeria*, Dahomey*, Togo*, Madagascar, Ivory Coast*, French Guinea*, Morocco*, French Sudan*, Senegal*, Tunisia*, Gabon, Reunion
• (* but not fully Free French for another year).
• December 1942: Somali Coast/Djibouti
• March 1943: French Guyana/Inini
• July 1943: Martinique, Guadaloupe
• March 1945: French Indochina, Guangchouwan (Kouang-Tcheou Wan)
• See next page for form of change and specific dates