World War 2 remains shrouded in ignorance, and none more so than the actions of Winston Churchill during that time. On July 3, 1940, Churchill ordered the bombing on the French navy at Mers el-Kebir, on the coast of Algeria. Churchill feared that the fleet would fall into the hands of Hitler and then used against Britain, so he took preemptive action by firing upon the French navy, killing 1,300 sailors in the process. The action was dubbed Operation Catapult, and has been lost to the public mind, aside from France, where resentment festered for years afterward. The War is nowhere near the black-and-white battle of good vs evil that we’ve been told.
