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With the fall and occupation of France in June 1940, the French Establishments in the Pacific were among the first to refuse defeat and to join forces with General de Gaulle. This territory held a decisive strategic importance in the context of the times.
In March 1942, an agreement was made between Free France and the United States for a base in New Caledonia. In July and August 1942 Seabees arrived and began building the Naval Base. The first project was building a vast fuel tank farm on the Ducos Peninsula, north of Noumea.
On 12 March 1942, 48 days after leaving New York, Task Force 6814 at last arrived at its terminal stop: Noumea, New Caledonia (see Google Map here). This French territory was a critical stop on the supply route to Australia, and also boasted precious raw minerals, a harbor, and an airfield.
17 kwi 2010 · New Caledonia, in 1940, was a ramshackle, relatively neglected, and militarily indefensible colony in the South Pacific backwater of the French overseas empire.
The Trials of the Free French in New Caledonia, 1940-1942 Kim MunhoUand Among the French colonies that decided to continue the struggle against Germany, following the defeat of 1940, was a remote and romantic tropical island with a Scottish name, New Caledonia. Lo-cated halfway around the world from London, where on 18 June
Itinerary. —The objective of this convoy was to land a sufficient force on the island of New Caledonia, to secure that island for the Allied cause, and to use it as a main base for operations on the Allied march to the northward. At that time the Japanese were advancing down the New Guinea coast, and shortly afterwards reached Guadalcanal.
New Caledonia ( / ˌkælɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) [nb 2] is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, [5] and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
