Attack on Mers-El-Kebir

When

3 Jul 1940

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

35.72° N, 0.69° W

Description

1940 battle

War

World War II

1940 British attack on the French Navy

The attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. The attack was the main part of Operation Catapult, a British plan to neutralise or destroy French ships to prevent them from falling into German hands after the Allied defeat in the Battle of France.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Attack on Mers-el-Kébir: British naval units sink or seize ships of the French fleet anchored in the Algerian ports of Mers-el-Kebir and Oran, to prevent…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “destruction à Mers el-Kébir d’une partie de la flotte française par les Britanniques”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000