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| Keywords: View of scuttled ships in Toulon in late 1944.jpg The Toulon Naval Dockyard France photographed from the Coaling Station circa late 1944 showing wreckage left from the scuttling of the French fleet on 27 November 1942 plus subsequent bombing damage The destroyers sunk just off shore are from left to right Tartu Cassard and L ' Indomptable all sunk upright Vautour nearly fully submerged and Aigle capsized and blown in two In the right center distance is the partially dismantled old battleship Condorcet A number of heavy guns many damaged are in the left center foreground with a large bomb crater adjacent to them Several other bomb craters are in the right foreground Official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g-k/80-G-K-02000/80-G-K-2012 html 80-G-K-2012 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command late 1944 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon Toulon in the 1940s Vauquelin class destroyers Aigle class destroyers Fantasque class destroyers Danton class battleships World War II color photographs of the Mediterranean Middle East and Africa World War II color photographs in France | ||||
