On This Day - What happened 10 November 1942 AD

Hitler occupied Vichy France in Case Anton, which lasted from 10 to 27 November 1942, although Vichy forces did not resist this violation of the armistice, they managed to scuttle their fleet to prevent its capture by German forces.

As 1942 drew to a close, the tide of war began to turn with Allied victory in the key battles of El Alamein and Stalingrad. Until November, the Allies had always been on the defensive, but from November, the Germans were. Churchill ordered the church bells to be rung throughout Great Britain for the first time since early 1940. On 10 November, knowing that El Alamein was a victory, he delivered one of his most memorable war speeches to the Lord Mayor's Luncheon at the Mansion House in London, in response to the Allied victory at El Alamein: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning".