WW II: When even the pigs turned on the pro-Axis French!

Sound like some fantasy scenario created by UTEP's Animal Concerns of Texas?

Or by the UTEP Philosophy Department's Militant Vegetarian Liberation Front?

Or an actual slice of WW II combat history?

Source: Tomkins, Peter. The Murder of Admiral Darlan, A Study in Conspiracy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Scene: The port of Casablanca, Morocco. Old French North Africa. World War II. Early November of 1942. Pro-Axis French Admirals are putting up a ferosciously heroic -- albeit ultimately futile resistance --against a US-led invasion force approaching their shores.

By sacrificing their own ships and men, these typically French Vichy admirals were able to buy desperately needed time for their NAZI overlords to enlarge their bridgehead far to the east, beyond Algeria, in Tunisia. As a U.S. Army website dealing with Tunisia at this time has it, "The Axis buildup began at [a] frenzied pace." http://www.army.mil/CMH-PG/brochures/tunisia/tunisia.htm .

Forced into fighting back, the American fleet didn't hesitate to clobber all and sundry. Finally, it became the turn of one of the remaining French warships to recieve the fury of the American onslaught.

That unlucky ship was the Primaguet.

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"The Americans now concentrated their fire on the Primaguet, which was hit again and again.

"An aerial bomb hit the bridge, killing half of those on it. Soon only 106 of the ship's complement of 300 hands remained alive, and of those the majority were suffering wounds or burns, or both.

"According to one French account, as the captain and most of the officers lay wounded, a horrible scene developed:

The ship's pigsty had been shot to pieces, and the animals wandered over the ship, attacking those who lay suffering and helpless. The roar of the guns prevented the cries and moans of the men from being heard, and before their plight was noticed most of the wounded sailors had been mauled to death by the beasts, who seemed to be possessed of a sanguinary rage against the helpless men ... The surviving sailors of the crew had just fnished killing off the pigs when fire broke out between decks.

"Just as gruesome was the plight of the wives and children of these French sailors, who, from the top stories of Casablanca buildings, could see, especially with binoculars, not only the familiar silhouettes of their ships but details of their death throes.

"By nightfall Admiral Michelier informed [the Pro-NAZI mainland French Government of ] Vichy that all the [French] ships of the 2nd Squadron were either sunk or out of commission.

"Some 1,000 French sailors were casualties in the defense of Morocco.

"Michelier then rounded up the survivors, armed them with rifles and five rounds each of ammunition and formed them into battalions with which to defend Casablanca from land.

"Leaning on a cane, Admiral de Lafond passed them in review before loading them aboard trucks ot move up to the front.

"Under their surviving officers the sailors were ordered to oppose the Americans on the road from Fedala."


Note: You know, it just might due to remember that many such French in 1942 hated the Americans far more than they ever did the NAZIs.

More to the point, sixty-four years later, that hatred still holds true. No matter how much some well-meaning UTEP faculty members such as Philosophy Professor William Cajetan Springer claim that the US "blew it" after 9/11 and so "lost" the support of the French, the so-called support of those French bastards has never amounted much to anything in the first place, or at least not that of their so-called "leaders and opinion makers."

In fact, from roughly 1932 to roughly 1962, the only thing the French did with any degree of success was the sporadic wholesale murder of Frenchmen by fellow Frenchmen, whether in war or in peace, at home or abroad.

Long after the last major upheaval in the Mexican Revolution that took place in San Luis Potosi in around 1940, the French were still going strong in the heady task of killing fellow Frenchmen up to the early summer of 1962. And their military firing squads were kept busy until even later.