By Jayantha Somasundaram “British Prime Minister Winston Churchill considered the most dangerous moment of the Second World War, and the one which caused him the greatest alarm, was when news was received that the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon.” –The Most Dangerous Moment by Michael Tomlinson (1976) William Kimber, London. It is 80 years […]
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Dead Battleships: In 1940, the British Preemptively Sunk the French Navy
Most of the remaining French Fleet had been scuttled at Toulon on November 27, 1942, following the Allied invasion of North Africa, to prevent its seizure by Germany after the Nazi takeover of Vichy France.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Mers-el-Kebir attack was, of course, received poorly in Vichy, and it led to lingering tensions between the British and the Free French, who, Vichy or otherwise, were the countrymen of the sailors that it had attacked. But the raid also communicated loud and clear to Berlin that Britain, which had appeared to teeter, wasn t out of the war yet.