Some primary sources:
- Association Mémoire du Tirailleur Sénégalais, See especially Témoinages, which are the eyewitness accounts by veterans
- David Killingray, African Voices from Two World Wars (* pdf)
- La marche des tirailleurs (paroles et musique)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor's Poem, "To the Senegalese Sharpshooters Who Died for France" (Translation and Essay)Ricci Shryock, Senegalese Soldiers Speak of Fighting for France
- Tirailleurs sénégalais - campagne de France (1940) sur le site cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr (It took a bit of searching to find this, but there are quite a few images on the site. There is a pdf version at Les Tirailleurs Sénégalais dans la campagne de France.) Check also on the site Chemins de Mémoire: Le Tata sénégalais de Chasselay and Historique des tirailleurs sénégalais.
Tirailleurs sénégalais (list of sources, references and images)
Some links and reference
- Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth, Forgotten Soldiers. African troops and the Liberation of France in the Second World War (*.doc)
- French Colonial Troops in 1940 (long post and comments)
- Les Compagnons de la Libération (has some information on individual tirailleurs sénégalais units)
- la Fondation de la France Libre (not much if anything on this site)
- Bertram M. Gordon, review of Raffael Scheck, Hitler’s African Victims, The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 (New York, 2006)
- Historique du 21e Bataillon de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (pdf)
- l’Inauguration bien discrète d’une exposition sur les tirailleurs sénégalais (at the LDH Toulon, France)
- David Killingray, African voices from two world wars (* pdf)
- Liste des unités de tirailleurs sénégalais
- Le Massacre de Thiaroye (See also, C.A.M.P: "Thiaroye".)
- Mike Thomson, Paris liberation made 'whites only' (BBC News)
- Tirailleurs Senegalais (An Online Reference Guide to African American History)
- Senegalese Tirailleurs (wiki); see also the entry for French Colonial Forces; if you are able, check out Tirailleurs sénégalais (French wiki) and Senegalesische Infanterie (German wiki)The Tirailleurs Sénégalais: Black African Troops in the French Colonial Army, 1857-1960 (a short overview)
- Tirailleurs Senegalais (long blog post)
- Michel Verger, Histoire des tirailleurs sénégalais, (pdf)
Some images:
- French Colonial Soldier 2 and French Colonial Troops (two images from WWII in Color)
- Visite des tombes de Tirailleurs Sénégalais [in France] (some images)
- Le fanion du 43e bataillon de tirailleurs sénégalais décoré de ka fourragère (wiki image)
- 1940: Tirailleurs Senegalais, for France (This is on the site Executedtoday.com with a really well done three-minute video.)
- Black French Troops of World War 2 (movie trailer)
