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This is a list of French ship Classes of World War II. This includes ship Classes used by the French Third Republic, Vichy France and Free France.The sections of the last are in chronological order with the first ships into service being first and the last ships into service being last. Due to there being three French factions in World War II I ...
World War II merchant ships of France (21 P) C. Cargo ships of France (4 P) F. ... French ship Duc d'Aquitaine (1754) E. Émilie (1793 ship) SS Empire Adventure;
Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of France" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
United States. Vichy France Germany. The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a series of naval engagements fought between American ships covering the invasion of North Africa and Vichy French ships defending the neutrality of French Morocco in accordance with the Second Armistice at Compiègne during World War II.
Recruitment in liberated France led to an expansion of the French armies. By the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, France had 1,250,000 troops, 10 divisions of which were fighting in Germany. An expeditionary corps was created to liberate French Indochina, then occupied by the Japanese. During the course of the war, French military losses ...
Georges Leygues (Free French) HMS Glasgow. HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson) Montcalm (Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard) HMS Orion (which fired the first shell of the coastal bombardment) HMS Scylla (Rear Admiral Philip Vian 's flagship, mined and seriously damaged, out of action until after the war) HMS Sirius In ...
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of 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, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. [3][a] The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy French ships to ...
The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was orchestrated by Vichy France on 27 November 1942 to prevent Nazi German forces from seizing it. [2] After the Allied invasion of North Africa, the Germans invaded the territory administered by Vichy under the Armistice of 1940. [3] The Vichy Secretary of the Navy, Admiral François Darlan ...