Sailors presenting Arms onboard Strasbourg. Mers-el-kebir, 1940.
Strasbourg’s aviation hangar is disassembled in Toulon by the Italians during 1943.
Strasbourg Le Havre, 1939.
Dunkerque and Strasbourg.
Battleship Strasbourg
Strasbourg with Colbert in the background at Toulon on 27 November 1942.
The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon was orchestrated by
Vichy France on 27 November 1942 to prevent Nazi German forces from
taking it over. The Allied invasion of North Africa had provoked the
Germans into invading the zone libre, neutral according to the Armistice
of 1940.
French battleship s"Dunkerque"and “Strasbourg”. 1937