Wensleydale.
I agree with you entirely. As my late father (BEF and then four years as a desert rat) once said to me. There are people who like to question what happened between 1939 and 45 and try to bend history in an effort to make it justify their modern viewpoint. THEY WEREN'T THERE, I WAS.
So apologies to Cirrus if I go with my dad's opinion and not his.
That reminds me. One of my father's favourite recollections concerned some Vichy French battlewagons lying in Oran harbour. When invited by the allies to come out of their hideyhole and help us defeat the axis lot, they showed their true colours and refused.
So the Royal Navy sank em!