What happened to the French navy in WWII?
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Do a google search for (Oran French Navy Churchill) and you'll learn about one of the greatest acts of perfidy of WWII.
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At 3 am on 6 June 1944, a huge armada of 6,000 ships – including 864 converted merchant ships and 4126 landing craft – set sail for Normandy in 47 convoys.   They carried 200,000 seamen, 185,000 soldiers and 20,000 vehicles.
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The French are one of the main countries that were helping arm Saddam and making illegal oil deals with him while he was under sanctions from the UN.I think you should find out what your own country has been up to before you comment on mine.
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Actually you might be able to argue that the answer is\n E) All of the Above\n\nFrance surrendered to the Germans in the first 6 weeks of the War.  The only thing France knows about War is how to retreat and surrender.  They haven't won a War since before The Battle of Waterloo.\nItaly was an Axis country under Moussolini that was allied with the Germans.  B is the answer you're looking for but all apply.\nChina fought independently against Japan.  We did pay China to build and use landing strips though, but no real collaborative effort.\nRussia received billions of dollars of American goods, supplies, military equipment, etc through the Lend-Lease Programs, but we didn't coordinate war efforts and battles with them.
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Europe was broke from two World Wars.  They were already in poor economic shape before the war.  France was once again devastated by fighting on its territories.  Germany, the greatest European power, was divided into two zones, one controlled by the Soviet Union, and the other by France, UK, and the US, though the US had all the power.  Though the USSR was also devastated by the war, the battle of Stalingrad being the most deadly of the war, they quickly rebounded by treating Eastern Europe as an essential colony and stripping war material from East Germany.  The United States had been on the assent for some time, and would have become a superpower regardless of the war, but it just made them that much more powerful that potential German or British challengers.  During the war, at the meeting of Yalta between Roosevelt and Stalin, it was agreed that the USSR would get de factor control over Eastern Europe to administer it as it saw fit.  Later agreements led to the division of conquered Japanese territory, such as Korea.  This division was intended to only be temporary. But because of the ideological differences between the two, it quickly became clear that the U.S. and the USSR would become competitors.  While this led to proxy war in Korea, in Europe it devolved into a stalemate.  KGB battled the CIA, with both rigging elections through the continent.  Berlin was blockade from receiving food, with the West airdropping food in response.  Eventually it became the situation of the iron curtain, with a divided Europe, each side reliant on a superpower to prevent from becoming a battleground between the two. Though some countries showed some independence, mainly France and Yugoslavia, they were largely required to toe the line or fear losing protection.
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I think like most of Europe between the wars, France had a lot of economic woes. They had gained Alsace-Lorraine back from Germany after losing the territory in the 19th century which was a moral boost. Still, the country was in great debt. As a matter of fact, I've actualy read that France still hasn't entirely paid back to the US money it borrowed during WW1.You have to understand, most of World War 1 actually took place on French soil so they had heavy losses- both economic and in terms of life.\n\nI think much of this set the stage for french defeat in World War 2. They didn't want another  long war and quickly gave up.
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france has a military?
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Have a look at the websites below!   Too much to put in this as the stuff is in a table and is also broken down into countries.\n\nI cannot find a breakdown of WWI military breakdown, however.   Part of the reason for this is because the RAF was set up in1918.\nAlso try the http://www.navynews.co.uk - you may be able to contact them to find out how many naval personnel were killed, especially from the last website I missed, which  says:\n\nNaval deaths recorded for national monument   16.02.04 10:25 \n A database containing details of all Naval deaths in service since the middle of the 20th century has been handed over to the Navy – and will be used to create a new national memorial.\n\nand as this was written in 2004, they may now have a list for you to refer to.\n\nGood luck in your research!\n\nHope these websites are useful.
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I don't think France can fight in any more wars, their white flag factory burned down, totally decimating their military.
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It wasn't fun, you can bet on that.  Who knew if we would win or not.  All of my friends went into the service.  So did I.  Some of my friends never came back.  Limited gas. Certain food not available. Hard to buy new clothes. However, life went on and we finally pulled out of it.  When I came home from Italy in 1946 things had already returned to 90% of normal.  After the war, things boomed.
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"Swords to plowshares"\n\nAfter the war Germany was under US-martial law. The Allies dissolved the German Army on August 20, 1946.\nAll military were disbanded an (almost) all equipment was molten and made into materials to rebuild Germany and surrounding countries.\n\nRailroads and bridges needed to be rebuilt. Then there was the Marshal-plan.\n\nAlso many tanks were used by their captors. France used some German Panther tanks as late as the late 50's.
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Shipped French Jews off to Concentration camps (Gare du Nord in Paris). There is a plaque to those shipped out from there. \n\nOK I know not what you meant but that is my answer
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Yes, I read about it.\n\nHere's the Navy's official version:\nhttp://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm
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I glad you mentioned that her last port-of-call was in 1965.  Apparently there were more than one HMS Bonaventure.  \n\nThe eighteenth “Bonaventure” is a 10-gun twin-screw cruiser, launched at Devonport in 1892.  She is of 4360 tons, 9000 horsepower, and 19 knots speed.  Her length, speed, and draught were 320ft, 50ft, and 21ft.  In 1900 the “Bonaventure” commanded by Captain Robert A Montgomerie, played a minor part in the third China war or “Boxer Rising.” She was subsequently converted into a sea-going submarine depot.\n\nThere was another in WWII.  Bonaventure served initially with the Home Fleet on completion, and escorted WS convoys. While on such duty with WS5a on 25 December 1940, the convoy was attacked by Admiral Hipper, although no damage was incurred or inflicted.\n\nAlmost immediately afterwards the ship was ordered to the Mediterranean. On 28 December 1940, Bonaventure intercepted the German blockade runner Baden (8204 tons) off Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. The German ship was en route from Tenerife to France. A capture was not possible due to the bad weather, so Bonaventure sank the ship with a torpedo.\n\nBonaventure was a part of Force "F" during the Operation Excess convoy to Malta in January 1941, she was attacked by the Italian torpedo boats Circe and Vega south of Pantelleria, but sank Vega on 10 January 1941. In March she escorted a convoy to Malta and was damaged by near misses while at Malta on 22 March 1941. She then participated in the Greek campaign, but on 31 March 1941, while escorting a convoy from Greece to Alexandria, she was torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Ambra south of Crete with 139 lives lost.\n\nThen there was another Bonaventure.  Another extraordinary sequel occurred in January 1947, when Midshipman Nicholson was posted to HMS Bonaventure for return to Australia. HMS Bonaventure was a submarine depot ship, coming to Australia to return those RN sailors in Navy detention or civil prison to finish their sentences in Singapore. The ship ran aground for 24 hours when transiting the Great Barrier Reef and once again the young Nicholson learnt at an early age the importance of safe navigation.  This may be the one you are looking for.\n\nAnd then there was the proud HMCS Bonaventure.  This Canadian Aircraft Carrier was put out of service sometime after late 1969.
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Sorry about that last answer. Nice answer on my Stalingrad question, by the way.\n HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier in the world. The design was based on that of a cruiser and the ship was intended for a similar scouting role. She was built by Armstrong Whitworth, laid down 15 January 1918 and launched 11 September 1919. She was subsequently commissioned in July 1923. After a distinguished wartime career she was sunk 9 April 1942. \n\n\nHMS Hermes was designed as a carrier from the start, although not with the benefit of operational experience. World War I slowed construction and although the ship was launched in 1919 she was not commissioned for another 5 years. \n  \n  At the commencement of war in September 1939, the British Home Fleet deployed aircraft carriers to seek out and destroy German submarines: HMS Ark Royal off the northwestern approaches to the British Isles, HMS Courageous and HMS Hermes off the southwestern approaches. Courageous was sunk on 17 September 1939 by a torpedo and Hermes returned to port. She maintained her brief service in Home waters for a while after the loss of both Courageous and Glorious. \n\n \nGun crew loading 5.5 inch guns, which in the Royal Navy are only found on Furious and Hermes \nwhere they are the main armament,  and on the battle cruiser Hood\n\nWith a small aircraft complement, light protection and anti-aircraft armament, limited high-speed endurance, and stability problems caused by the large starboard island, with fuel having to be carefully distributed to balance the ship, Hermes was deemed unsuitable for operations in European waters, and was consequently employed in trade protection in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans until March 1942.  As the French had no aircraft carriers Hermes was then posted to Brest to operate with the French navy out of Dakar, French West Africa for approximately six months. When Vichy France took over, the Admiralty ordered Hermes out of Dakar to patrol the immediate area to keep a close watch on Vichy French naval movements. Her only fleet operation was on 8 July 1940, when her Swordfish aircraft attacked the Vichy French battleship Richelieu at Dakar and scored one torpedo hit. \n\nShortly afterwards during the middle watch she was in collision with the AMC Corfu; lead ship of a convoy which came out of Freetown, which resulted in her steaming to Simonstown in South Africa for a more permanent repair. Following which she was deployed with our aircraft as shadow ship to prevent the pocket battleship Graf Spee from escaping to the South Atlantic. She then went on patrol on the East Coast of Africa and the Red Sea and finally to the Persian Gulf. Some of her crew members and ratings from other ships, were landed in Basra to take over the running of the port and man commandeered craft to patrol the river Shat-el-Arab, between Iraq and Iran. After about eight months, troops from the Indian and Ghurka regiments invaded Iran. They then had to take over the naval base at Khoramshah and to repair the sabotaged machinery. \n\n \nHMS Hermes sinking following the attack by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon, 9 April 1942\n\nHMS Hermes while heading in convoy from Trincomali to the Maldive Islands, was attacked by the Japanese First Air Fleet's 50 Aichi D3Al aircraft (soon to be named VAL by the Allies) from the Japanese carriers Akagai (flagship), Hiryu, and Soryu, which sank her and also sank a destroyer, corvette and two tankers, southeast of Trincomalee, Ceylon on 9 April 1942. Akagi had been the flagship for the Pearl Harbor attack in December 1941. \n\nThe Japanese Fleet went on to attack Darwin on its return to Japan. Akagi and Hiryu were later scuttled and sunk by US dive bombers and Soryu hit by three bombs and exploded on 5 June 1942 in the Battle of Midway. \n\nThe wreck of the Hermes is located in the Indian Ocean off Batticaloa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). \n\n \nHiryu burning after Battle of Midway: \nFor more information and phot
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Won the sea battle of Trafalgar against Spain but under Napoleonic France in 1805. Basically British sank a lot of Spanish ships at Trafalgar.
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The Marine Corps was not active in the European theater during WWII.  It's entire concentration was against the Japanese in the Pacific.  Nowhere in the archives will you find Marine units having been deployed on Eisenhower's side of the war.  The one exception may have been UDT teams, however, I don't believe the Marines were active in those units during WWII.