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What warships did your country have in WW2?
Owen Foster
Lincoln Phillips
None
Jeremiah Turner
Evan Gonzalez
All of them.
Easton Thomas
Surcouf.
A submarine and heavy cruiser rolled into one.
It had torpedoes like a submarine, but also two 203mm (8") guns, plus some 37mm antiair guns and several machineguns.
It even had a hangar and recoverable seaplane.
Mason Kelly
Oliver Cooper
Lots of Japanese ones and a few American ones.
All under the sea though.
Jonathan Stewart
Two large dreadnoughts and many cruisers and submarines.
David Richardson
That's pretty neat.
Matthew Rivera
shitty ones
good torpedo boats tho
Julian Stewart
At least we were sunk with german guns.
David Lee
At conference which produced the London Naval Treaty of 1922, all other countries were scared of such a mighty ship, so they were forbidden, on the condition that France was allowed to keep the one that already had been built.
So Surcouf was the only one ever built.
During the German invasion in 1940, she fled to England (Plymouth).
As you easily imagine, le eternal Anglo tried to capture her for themselves, and tried to murder the crew by surprise.
Three of them were killed by the crew (including one shot by submarine's doctor) but later, things were sorted out, the Brits instead agreeing to refit her and the submarine resumed the fight as part of the Free French Forces, seeing that she could be a major asset for convoy patrol.
She was used for the recapture of St Pierre et Miquelon (small French island near Canada), which was the first French territory to be liberated, in 1941.
She was lost in 1942 in the South Atlantic under mysterious circumstances. It is speculated that she was sunk by an Allied plane mistaking her for a U-boat, being unfamiliar with such a huge submarine.
6th Heavy Bomber Group (US unit operating from Panama at the time) reported sinking an U-boat that day, but the Germans lost no submarine on that day.
Connor Martinez
thought we only had the mosquito fleet?
Christopher Long
This nifty 1/50th scale model at our Musée de la Marine in Paris shows the interior.
Matthew Parker
literally iron trash
Charles Hughes
Battleship Richelieu.
Completed just before the German invasion, she ended up in Mers-El-Kébir in Algeria where she, also, was attacked by le eternal Anglo.
But she suffered only piddling damage.
She was then moved to Dakar in Sénégal where she, a few months later, again was targeted by le eternal Anglo.
This time some repairs were needed and she sailed to the US where she was repaired and benefited from the usual modernization of battleships during that part of the war (radars and extra AA armement).
She then fought the Japanese in the Pacific until the end of WW2, and later the Viet Minh during the Indochina war. Removed from active service in 1952.
47,700t displacement, so I believe she (and her sister ship Jean Bart) still are the largest French warship ever built to date (Charles de Gaulle is less than that. Our future carrier is planned to be more than twice that though).
Nolan Rivera
>the only fight the french did in ww2 was again anglos
autism
Michael Lopez
there is something wrong with your reading comprehension...
Both Surcouf and Richelieu fought on the Allied side (against the Germans for the sub and the Japanese for the battleship).
Yet, the Brits assaulted the former (causing one casualty) , and attacked the later, on two separate occasions.
Benjamin Price
this sub survived
Justin Cooper
>give the French more than reasonable terms
>negotiate all day
>they still tell us to fuck off
>French use the rest of the navy that wasn't destroyed to attack the Americans
>blame the Anglos anyway
Austin Lopez
>they still tell us to fuck off
That is the French way, and you would never have accepted such "reasonable" terms yourselves
>to attack the Americans
errrr, those ships were attacked while stationed in French territory. Which was they had been built to defend.
If we send an invasion force and land on the English coast tomorrow, I'm pretty sure the Royal Navy will fight it.
And if we sneakily attack your ships in your ports, claiming that "we have reason to believe you will join the Russians' side", I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it.
Adrian Gray
>blame the Anglos anyway
He wasn't blaming anybody really - merely stating the facts.
You did assault an allied submarine and killed one of the crew.
You did attack neutral fleets on several occasions.
And if you're 100% cool with that, then why do you take offense?