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TIL about Operation Catapult. After the fall of France in 1940 Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to seize or destroy the French Navy to prevent Hitler from using it. In one British attack 1,297 French sailors were killed. This proved to US that Britain would resist Nazi Germany whatever the cost

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