Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Royal Navy's bombing of the French fleet on July 3, 1940, at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria resulted in the deaths of 1,297 French ...
On the sweltering afternoon of July 3, 1940, the harbour at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria, was ablaze. In less than 10 minutes of ferocious shelling, 1,297 French sailors had been killed – not by the Germans ...
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