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Oran and Mers-el-Kebir, the nearby naval base where the British attacked parts of the French Fleet in 1940, were also flanked. The main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other...
It was 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...
In the West there was a problem right off the bat. The capitulation of the French deprived Britain of important ports at Toulon, Oran, Bizerte, Algiers, Corsica; and the laying down of French arms left the flanks of the British in the Eastern basin bare. Accordingly a British squadron put...
Last fortnight, off the Mediterranean pirates' 15th-Century stronghold at Mers-el-Kebir, France's Navy added its own postscript. It was put down in the blood of a thousand French gobs, gay in their red pompons and striped shirts, who had frolicked with British seamen on shore...
Jayvee; Harris, f.b.; Lardner, l.w.; Mers, l.c.; Parker, r.c.; Cogawell, r.w.; Wheeler, s.o.h.; Ossorio, s.o.h.; Bocking, f.; McFadden, f.; Conant f.; Knapp f.; Dockery, f; Gorman, f; Van V. Veeder, f; Hoguet, f.