Word: dakar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official announcement, broadcast from Vichy over Germany's Transocean wireless, said that the six warships were bound for Dakar, on the coast of French West Africa. Later Vichy announced their arrival at Dakar. What was their object? Did they intend to put down the swing to De Gaulle in French Equatorial Africa? Whatever they were up to, the British must have known or the French would not have passed unchallenged. And whatever it was, the British must have felt safer with the French ships out of the Mediterranean, where they might have been seized by the Axis...
...stubborn fight against the Germans. They did not understand how Americans could regard the Petain administration as a German puppet. For their own part, they hated Hitler who beat them, Reynaud who led them to defeat, but most of all the British for attacking their fleet at Oran and Dakar...
...already knocked out or taken over by Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting eight 15-inch guns and a bristling mass of lesser armament, lay somewhat ahead in the tropic darkness, inside a net-boom in the harbor of Dakar. Smaller French warships lay there, too, to protect her, and all were well warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander had been signaled and had refused surrender terms similar to those offered Vice Admiral Gensoul for his squadron at Oran last fortnight. As the deadline approached...