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...Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, 66, British naval hero brought out of retirement by Winston Churchill for service in World War II; of coronary thrombosis; in Wells, England. Torpedo Expert Somerville was deputy commander of British naval units in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, led the British fleet into action at Oran, was skipper of famed Force H which helped keep the Mediterranean open for shipping...
...bear him out-although when TIME does make an error, we usually hear from the experts first. Recently, we heard from one five years late. He wrote in to say that in 1942 we ran a picture and captioned it Bizerte Harbor. It was not Bizerte at all, but Oran Harbor. He knew because he was there at the time and would have written us then if wartime security regulations had not intervened. Now that he was out of the Service, however, he thought he ought to set the record straight...
Four days after the Bermuda Sky Queen's forced landing, a Bristol land plane, operated by the French Compagnie des Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux, crashed in the Mediterranean on a flight from Marseille to Oran, Algeria. Forty-one died; two were rescued...
...reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with...
...Eberhard von Stohrer, German ambassador at Madrid, reported that Franco's price was Gibraltar, French Morocco and the Oran section of Algeria, plus military and economic assistance...