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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...went so far as to forbid its exit, but if the sea empties, the radio guidance continues. Today, the Kawanishi H6K (Mavis) on patrol finally spot something - but they are P-38s of the 449th FS. It is quickly shot down and at that moment, the chances of finding the Surcouf really drop to the...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...maritime patrol is sent on the spot. But hours pass and no suspicious vessel isspotted. The Japanese are unaware that the submarine cruiser Surcouf, once its signal had been transmitted, had simply dived to spend the rest of the day on the bottom. Belgian Congo Air Force (Aeronautique...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...absence and the flak, very weak in these sectors, does not cause any casualties. Meanwhile, further south, guided by a radio signal from the Surcouf, the Americans of the Americans of the 449th FS and 490th BS pound the bridges and structures in the Tavoy area, while the Mustangs of Sqn 340...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    April 30th, 1943 Burmese Front - Assisted for a more accurate navigation by the submarine MN Surcouf, which acts as a direction-finding beacon, Manchester and Wellington attack the Moulmein sector and the areas close to the front during the night. However, the destruction caused is limited...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...coast of Burma - Monthly report by Col. d'Astier de la Vigerie. Installations - The second Falconet team (Burmese), disembarked from the Surcouf, settled on its site. Its orders, apart from a reconnaissance mission similar to ours, are to create a clearing that can be used as a Drop Zone and...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...de Beaucorps. "What a surprise it was for us this month to see our supplies being brought to us, not by small local ships, but by the famous Surcouf of our National Navy, which majestically surfaced in front of our island! In addition to the equipment, she disembarked an engineer section of a...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
    Threadmarks: 6488 - No need for torpedoes to sink a refinery [Tarakan-Bandjarmasin Raid]

    ...and lead local resistance networks. On the naval side, the heart of the operation was American-French, with the Narwhal, Nautilus and Surcouf for Tarakan and the Argonaut for Bandjarmasin. The Diamant was charged with mining the mouth of the Barito. The Dutch provided their only operational...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
    Threadmarks: 5249 - Makin Island Raid

    ...is only a secondary operation. The 222 men of the USMC's 2nd Raider Battalion are somewhat crowded on USS Argonaut, USS Nautilus and MN Surcouf. The luckiest Marines are those who embarked on the Surcouf. Indeed, the ship's prison was converted at Pearl Harbor into living quarters, while the...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...still considered one of the most important secrets of the US Navy. Pearl Harbor - The "submarine cruisers" USS Argonaut, USS Nautilus and MN Surcouf begin training for amphibious assaults with the 2nd Raider Battalion under Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlsons, USMC. The three large submarines are to...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...Salt-Lake City and San Francisco, DD Alwin, Dewey, Farragut, Monaghan and Phelps). ......... Pearl Harbor, 09:00 - The "submarine cruiser" Surcouf returns from operations in Tokyo Bay and along the Japanese coast. The ship is to be re-equipped to participate in "special operations" with large...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
    Threadmarks: 4270 - Blaison Raid

    ...no plane flew over Tokyo last night. It is not bombs that have hit the city, but large-caliber shells. At that moment, the submarine cruiser Surcouf (CF Blaison), whose two 203 mm guns are responsible for this panic, is already quietly leaving Tokyo Bay. "We dived to leave the area in...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...a moderately aggressive hunt, there was no question of attacking freighters or troop transports... Pearl Harbor - The submarine cruiser Surcouf (CF Blaison) leaves Pearl Harbor at the end of the day after having given its sailors plenty of time to talk about their return to Papeete in the...
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    February 6th, 1942 Pearl Harbor - The submarine cruiser Surcouf (CF Blaison) returns from the raid which took her from Papeete to the Bonin, a raid punctuated by its action at Wake and by a reconnaissance in the Mandates before the American air raid.
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    January 27th, 1942 South Pacific campaign - Returning to Pearl Harbor, the submarine cruiser Surcouf makes observations on the Marshall Islands (Wotje and Kwajalein), to prepare the American air raid.
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...detached from Australia arrive in the afternoon and are immediately camouflaged with care. Western Pacific - The "submarine cruiser" Surcouf (CF Georges Blaison) intercepts and sinks a Japanese freighter en route to Truk (west of the Bonin Islands) with a 400mm torpedo. Central Pacific -...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
    Threadmarks: 3390 - December naval losses, Comparaison to OTL

    ...Canadian and Australian Beauforts in Kuching (OTL sunk in May 1943) MM Ammiraglio Caracciolo (Cagni-class submarine), sunk by HMS Farndale in Karpathos Channel (OTL sunk earlier in December) IJN Tenryu (Tenryu-class light cruiser), sunk by the MN Surcouf off Wake Island (OTL sunk in December...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...resumes. The fast transport (a converted destroyer) is damaged. 01:15 - The bombardment stopped for good, while the "submarine cruiser" Surcouf resumes its route towards the west. It is indeed the one whose two 203 pieces caused panic on Otori Jima (name given to Wake by the Japanese). Seeing...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    December 6th, 1941 San Francisco, December 6th, 09:00 - The training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (CV Vidil) and the "submarine cruiser" Surcouf (CF Blaison), which have just undergone a "short visit" to the shipyards, receive from the Chief of Staff of the French Navy, Admiral Ollive, the order to set...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...of the signals, its pasha, Commander Fontaine, hoists the Union Jack on the starboard halyard and the Gwenn ha du of Brittany, in homage to Surcouf, on the port side. The pilot, as soon as he comes on board, presents him with the compliments of Commodore O'Driscoll who, he says, would come to...
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    Fantasque Time Line (France Fights On) - English Translation
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    ...obtain an Allied superiority of 6 to 5 for this category of ships. After the end of its refit and modernization by an American shipyard, the Surcouf will stay in Martinique for some trials before joining the light cruiser Jeanne d'Arc (which went there after a short but active participation...
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