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Attack on Mers-El-Kebir

1940 CE · Algeria, Africa · War

Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
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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.

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