A larger Free French fleet would have offered the Allies more useful ships. Supporting them without access to France's domestic supply and maintenance systems would still have been a logistical problem. One open possibility is that a larger early transfer might also have brought more sustainment infrastructure, including French North African facilities. A second question concerns how the destroyers would have performed if more had been available for the tactical roles intended before the war. These counterfactuals remain open for consideration.
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Could a larger Free French fleet have supported itself?
A larger Free French fleet raises two unresolved questions: whether its support infrastructure would have followed, and how its destroyers would have performed in their intended roles.