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...Sidon there was plenty of bloodshed. The Australians took it, lost it when Vichy's General Henri Fernand Dentz (who last year surrendered Paris) furiously counterattacked, took it again. While British naval units poured fire into Sidon, they were attacked by Axis bombers, and Nazis claimed a direct hit on a heavy cruiser. Vichy boasted it had dive-bombed two British destroyers and crippled them. Australian fighters shot down three German Junkers 88s with Italian markings, sent presumably from Dodecanesan Rhodes. After Sidon, the Australian troops pressed on up the coast to the outskirts of Beirut, at which...
While the top French officers in Syria were reported pro-Vichy, the younger officers and lower ranks were believed pro-Free France. Just prior to the British jump-off, General Henri Dentz, the Syrian High Commissioner, was yelping to Vichy for loyal aviators and anti-aircraft crews: "Germans, if necessary." General Dentz has been wrathful about the British ever since he had to turn over Paris to the Germans last June...
...case, materiel was still hopping across Syria, and the French in Syria showed signs of being hopping mad. Some were angry at the British for bombing Syrian airports. General Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife...