Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy submarine put out beyond the barges, was promptly attacked. The Admiralty Building-on that day the headquarters of visiting Admiral Jean François Darlan-was quickly cleared of the invaders. Vichy said that they were captured...
...military commander in North Africa, reported to Vichy that gunfire was nearing the town, but there was no detailed evidence that his native troops and French officers put up more than a token resistance. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, 16 hours after the U.S. troops landed, he and Admiral Darlan agreed to surrender Algiers. Over the docks, the flames and smoke were still rising...
...different at Mers-el-Kebir and in Oran's own harbor, where Darlan's Navy had only a few small ships, but manned the coastal guns around the naval base, the docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
...Marshal radioed to shrewd little Admiral Jean François Darlan, commander of Vichy's armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting...
Vichy's Admiral Jean François Darlan, the little officer with the big opportunism, returned last week from an inspection tour of Casablanca and Dakar, to which, said a Vichy spokesman, "circumstances give very special importance." Admiral Darlan professed himself satisfied with what he saw. Vichy's control over the forces at Dakar was strengthened by the arrival in France of a shipload of 1,300 wives and children of Dakar residents and soldiers. This brought the total number of such potential hostages in France...