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Caption | British General Edward Spears and French General Charles de Gaulle aboard Dutch ship Westernland en route to Dakar, French West Africa, Sep 1940 ww2dbase | |||||||
WW2-Era Location Name | Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria | |||||||
Date | Sep 1940 | |||||||
Photographer | C. Priest | |||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseImperial War Museum | |||||||
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Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
Photo Size | 1,036 x 758 pixels |
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