British/ French monument

Intrigued by both British and French flags flying we made our way past the end of the parapet to that monument. Turned out this was to commemorate the act of HMS Unbroken (P42) - Royal Navy U-class submarine. Commissioned in January 1942, she spent most of her wartime career in the Mediterranean. She landed saboteurs under the command of Captain Peter Churchill at Antibes - hense the monument at the place if landing. She then proceeded to Malta to reform the 10th Flotilla in June 1942.
As Fate would have it, Unbroken was transferred on loan to the Soviet Union on 26 June 1944, where she was renamed V-2 (Cyrillic: В-2). Sailing under Soviet flag, she sank the German submarine chaser UJ-1220 on 12 October 1944. She spent four years in Soviet service before being returned to the Royal Navy in 1949. She was scrapped at Gateshead from 9 May 1950.
We spent some time watching the windsail surfers and checked out a square in the Modern section of Antibes, which was perhaps 3-4 blocks from "our neighborhood"Read more