WED 3 JUL 1940
Operation Catapult: British warships attack French naval vessels at Mers-el-Kebir, near Oran, Algeria, sinking battleship Bretagne and damaging battleship Provence and battlecruiser Dunkerque, and sinking seaplane tender Commandant Teste and destroyer Mogadore; French men-of-war in British ports (principally Portsmouth or Plymouth) are seized.
Heavy cruisers Wichita (CA-45) (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) and Quincy (CA-39) depart Montevideo, Uruguay, for Brazilian waters.
Light cruiser Phoenix (CL-46) reaches Balboa, C.Z. (see 5 July).
Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) departs Santos, Brazil, for Para, Brazil (see 9 July).
Destroyer Dickerson (DD-157), attached to Squadron 40-T, departs Bilbao, Spain, for Lisbon, Portugal (see 5 July).
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