sentences:  It was only, on 17 May 1943, after the Allies had cleared North Africa of Axis forces that, the British Commander-in-Chief, Levant, received a letter from Godfroy, expressing the desire "to join the French Navy in North Africa".Docking of the French warships was at once started at Alexandria.René-Emile Godfroy died at Fréjus, southern France, in January 1981, aged 96.