Answering the question "Why did the French navy fight the US Navy at Casablanca in French Morocco in 1942?" is the subject of today's Channel Marker.

John Jordan & Robert Dumas, French Battleships, 1922-1956. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.

Morison, Samuel E. Operations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943, Vol. 2 in History of US Naval Operations in World War II. Reprinted by Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1947.

Philp Nord, France, 1940: Defending the Republic. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2015.

Capt. S. W. Roskill, RN. The Navy at War, 1939-1945. London: Collins, 1960.

Photo and Film Credits: United States Naval Institute and US National Archives.

Channel Markers, Ep. 3

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