Modern era · 1940
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of 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.
- When
- 3 Jul 1940
- Where
- Mers El Kebir
- Era
- Modern
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