sentences:  The French emptied their fuel bunkers and removed the firing mechanisms from their guns.Cunningham promised to repatriate the ships' crews.Controversially, after the collapse of Vichy authority following British and American landings in North Africa in November 1942 and the subsequent German occupation of Vichy France in November 1942, Godfroy refused to support the Allies even after all other French forces in North Africa had done so.