The official Atlantic evacuation ran to 25 June, while British forces continued extracting personnel from French Mediterranean ports into August. British Mediterranean Fleet ships therefore remained involved after the formal end of Aerial. This activity overlapped the 3 July attack at Mers-el-Kébir. The chronology complicates any claim that the attack produced an immediate and complete end to practical cooperation in every French port.
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Evacuations continued after Mers-el-Kébir
The operation's unofficial Mediterranean continuation complicates any simple claim that Mers-el-Kébir immediately ended practical Anglo-French cooperation.