Mers El Kébir
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Mers El Kébir is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War.
View of Mers El Kébir
Mers El Kébir, 1881 by Eugène Trutat, French photographer.
Attack on Mers El Kébir, 3 July 1940
Old photograph of Cimetiere street
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
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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.
Mers El Kébir
…al-Marsā al-Kabīr, lit. 'The Great Harbor' ) is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War. Originally a Phoenician port, it was called Portus Divinus under the Roman presence, Mers-el-Kébir became an Almohad…
Modern view of the harbour at Mers El Kébir in Algeria
French photograph of the bombardment
Bretagne on fire, still under bombardment