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In the early morning of July 3, 1940, the French fleet stationed in the port of Mirsk Biel was surprised to find that their ally, the British naval fleet, had blocked the passage of the port in an attack formation and began to lay mines on the channel.
The magistrate on duty didn't know how to deal with it, so he could only remain vigilant and report the situation to the fleet's supreme commander, Admiral Jean-Sur.
A British destroyer sailed into the harbor and approached the French flagship Dunkirk. Lieutenant General Samuel sent his assistant, Colonel Holland, who was the military attache of the British Embassy in Paris, to Dunkirk to persuade him to surrender.
Colonel Holland had a good personal relationship with General Gensur, but the French admiral strictly followed Admiral Darlan's orders and did not allow Holland to board his flagship.
Holland then sent an ultimatum from the British Navy and a personal letter to the Dunkirk.
The British made the following demands to the French fleet:
First, continue to fight the "evil alliance" with the British.
Second, sail to a British port under surveillance and then disarm.
Third, leave here and sail to the West Indies, where the warships will be handed over to the Americans for safekeeping.
If you reject these reasonable suggestions, we ask you to scuttle all warships within six hours. Otherwise, the Royal Navy will use all means in accordance with the orders of the British Government to prevent your ships from falling into Germany or Italy
Human hands.
After receiving the ultimatum, General Jeansur immediately sent two telegrams to the Navy Department of the Vichy government asking for instructions on how to deal with it, and notifying in detail the conditions proposed by the British.
The French cabinet immediately held a meeting to study the conditions listed by the British. The Vichy government immediately notified the Armistice Committee, which was dominated by Germans and Italians, of the incident. Admiral Darlan, on behalf of the Admiralty and Cabinet meetings, gave instructions to let
General Suhr adopted a tough attitude and promised that all French warships in the Mediterranean would fully support Mirskbil's resistance. All General Suhr himself needed to do was to do his best to delay time.
In the afternoon, Colonel Holland was finally allowed to board the "Dunkirk", and Admiral Suhr refused the British request for surrender, but he was willing to use his personal reputation to guarantee that if the Germans threatened to seize
Warships, all were to take the entire fleet to the French West Indies, where it would be disarmed under American supervision.
Throughout the afternoon, Churchill had been sitting in the War Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street. At nearly 5 o'clock, the British Prime Minister issued a combat order to Lieutenant General Samuel: the French fleet must be scuttled by themselves before dark or destroyed.
Get sunk, or you'll be left alone to fight French reinforcements and even Italians.
Shortly after Colonel Holland returned to the flagship, Lieutenant General Samuel issued the order to attack.
At 5:16, the Hood first opened fire on the French fleet anchored in the harbor, and then two battleships of Fleet H also approached the harbor and fired artillery shells at the French.
Admiral Jean Soul has ordered the entire French fleet to set sail with all its strength in preparation for escape.
The large-caliber shells fired by the British warships exploded in the harbor. Suddenly, thick smoke rose everywhere.
The French battleship anchored in the port first fired back at the leader of the Hood. At this time, the British ship was only 14,000 meters away from the port. However, when the French entered the anchorage, they did not consider that the fleet would be attacked in the port.
Therefore, the ships still at the berth cannot aim out of the harbor at all, especially the Dunkirk and the Sturtsburgh. In order to make sailing easier, these two warships, which only have two quadruple forward main guns, have their aft decks
There is no way to fight back outside the harbor.
The British, who had been well prepared, were guided by several artillery-firing aircraft that took off in advance, and the hit rate was quite high. After several rounds of shelling, the bridge of the Lorraine behind the breakwater was hit by a 381 mm artillery shell.
The artillery fire director was destroyed, killing most of the personnel and part of the observation equipment. The "Lorraine" had to cease fire after firing only 22 rounds of 320 mm artillery shells.
At the beginning of the battle, Dunkirk and Lorraine were hit multiple times. The two warships struggled for a while and could only be stranded in the shallow water area of the harbor and used as fixed forts.
The "France" became a key target of attack by British ships. This old battleship, which was in service before World War I, exploded after a secondary turret in the middle of the battleship was penetrated.
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Carrier-based aircraft taking off from the Ark Royal launched an attack on the "Strasbourg". The French battle cruiser was hit by a torpedo when it was about to enter the channel. The hull was damaged and could only
Towed by a tugboat, it ran aground in the shallow waters of the harbor.
The battle only lasted less than two hours. Most of the French warships in the harbor were forced to run aground and lost their ability to move. However, only three Swordfish torpedo planes of the British Navy were shot down. The British won a complete victory.
The British continued to attack. After a while, the "France" was sunk in the port, and more than 300 French naval officers and soldiers were killed. Under the counterattack of the French fort, the British slightly opened up the distance between them and the Mirsk Biel port.
distance.
After several torpedo planes completed their attacks on the French warships in Mirskbil Port, they returned to the Ark Royal, which was less than forty kilometers away from the port. The pilot of a biplane torpedo plane that was circling and waiting to land suddenly found the northeast
A dense group of aircraft appeared in the sky in that direction.
"Enemy plane, enemy plane!" The pilot immediately woke up and shouted into the microphone.
96 Italian combat aircraft taking off from the "Skyhawk" and "Harrier" about 80 nautical miles away from the battlefield rushed to the battlefield. According to Fang Minghao's suggestion, Admiral Cavgliani ordered these fighters to first go all out
Attack the enemy's aircraft carriers rather than the seemingly more important battleships.
An Italian naval aviation formation composed of two squadrons of fighters and two squadrons of bombers was flying at an altitude of 1,200 meters. As the flight commander, Lieutenant Colonel Martini flew an fe2001 at the forefront of the entire formation. Beautiful flowers
White clouds decorated the sky, and there was a blue sea beneath him. Lieutenant Colonel Martini had no intention of admiring the wonderful scenery around him, and his eyes were entirely focused on searching for the enemy's target on the sea.
As an escort force, 24 HE2001 naval fighter jets flew about 10 kilometers in front of the entire formation, followed by the first wave of attack formations composed of 32 RE2002 Markey dive bombers, in addition to 24 escort fighter jets and 16 Capro
Nigerian torpedo planes formed the second wave of attack formation.
"Enemy aircraft found, everyone be prepared!" Captain Basio's urgent voice came from the earphones. Lieutenant Colonel Martini looked to the left and forward, and found an enemy aircraft carrier on the sea, and several aircraft had just taken off from it.
The fighter jets were flying towards their formation.
"At 10 o'clock, the enemy warship, Aquila, go over with the bombers and kill it!" Lieutenant Colonel Martini gave the order, "Leave the interceptor aircraft to us!"
A dozen Italian fighter planes accelerated towards the enemy plane.