Word: oran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentiment of France's Ecole navale has long tended to be antidemocratic, and that sentiment was underscored in blood two years ago when the British attacked the French Fleet at Oran. But if most Vichy naval officers would probably fight Britain with gusto, French seamen are generally pro-British...
...Dakar, is reported unable to move, now serves as a floating fort for Dakar. Its sister ship, Jean Bart, towed to Casablanca at the war's outbreak while still incomplete, has possibly not yet had all its guns mounted. Fully repaired or nearly so, after the battle of Oran, are the 26,500-ton Strasbourg and Dunkerque, the 22,000-ton Provence, all in Toulon. There are also eleven heavy and light cruisers, six supposedly en route to Madagascar, two perhaps in Dakar, the rest in French home ports. There are some 40 destroyers, some 60 submarines...
Vice Premier Admiral Jean Franqois Darlan announced last week that the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque had put into the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon under her own power. Even after 18 months of repair work at Oran, where she was blasted at anchor by the British Fleet (TIME, Sept. 16, 1940), the Dunkerque is still too battered for active service. But Nazi Germany knows, as do Vichyfrance and the U.S., that eleven French cruisers are in European or African waters, handy for immediate action, that the Dunkerque's sister ship Strasbourg is fit & ready, that the balance...
...children made a game of Goebbels' informing Hitler afeout the sinking of the French ships at Oran. Child Hitler: "Bring me my carpet that I may bite it." Child Goebbels: "Which flavor, mein Führer?" Child Hitler: "Lemon, Joe. And I'll have a nibble at the raspberry...
...completion of the Axis-built highway from Oran to Dakar...