File:View of scuttled ships in Toulon in late 1944.jpg

Original file(5,812 × 3,792 pixels, file size: 7.8 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description 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.
Date late 1944
date QS:P,+1944-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40719766
Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-2012 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy

Licensing

Public domain
This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:35, 10 May 2016Thumbnail for version as of 16:35, 10 May 20165,812 × 3,792 (7.8 MB)Cobatfor== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=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 following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: