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The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, at Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy French ships to prevent them from falling into German hands after the Allied defeat in the Battle of France. The British bombardment of the base killed 1,297 French servicemen, sank a battleship and damaged five other ships, for a British loss of five aircraft shot down and two crewmen killed. The attack by air and sea was conducted by the Royal Navy, after France had signed armistices with Germany and Italy, coming into effect on 25 June. Of particular significance to the British were the five battleships of the Bretagne and Richelieu classes and the two fast battleships of the Dunkerque class, the second largest force of capital ships in Europe after the Royal Navy.

The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, at Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy French ships to prevent them from falling into German hands after the Allied defeat in the Battle of France. The British bombardment of the base killed 1,297 French servicemen, sank a battleship and damaged five other ships, for a British loss of five aircraft shot down and two crewmen killed. The attack by air and sea was conducted by the Royal Navy, after France had signed armistices with Germany and Italy, coming into effect on 25 June. Of particular significance to the British were the five battleships of the Bretagne and Richelieu classes and the two fast battleships of the Dunkerque class, the second largest force of capital ships in Europe after the Royal Navy.

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Zero evidence france would turn them over to Germans.

Zero evidence Germans could crew them a d run those ships.

What you are quoting is post murder excuses written by unquestioned Victor's

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Armistice was signed June 25, the bombing took place July 3 in a French port. They had a week plus to leave but they didn't. And let's not forget this major fact:

Darlan repeatedly refused British requests to place the fleet in British custody.

I patiently await your response.

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? So to be clear. Zero evidence of french fleet collusion is to be ignored.

But unless the usn navy surrenders control of every warship tomorrow to the rn the rn has every right to sink usn warships?

Are you a fuking retard?

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Great, another public school trained npc.

I didn't say anything about collusion. The evidence of needing to bomb them is right there in the article and in the three sentences I typed.

The US and Russia are not at war right now and even if they were it has zero similarities to what we are talking about. But please, please tell me why you think that has anything to do with what we are talking about. Please, I'm curious to know how the mind of a public school trained npc "works."