Sania Ramel Airport welcomed him and Franco assumed command of the Spanish Army in Morocco. They held an improvised conference around the plane. The most important contribution of the Sania Ramel airfield to the Nationalist war effort during the Spanish Civil War was its role in the airlift that flew most of the Army of Africa into mainland Spain. It was the world's first long-range combat airlift. At that time, the rebels in Spanish Morocco were being blocked by the Spanish fleet which remained mostly loyal to the government and the Army of Africa, the only professional army in Spain, was key to
SS Commissaire Ramel SS Commissaire Ramel SS "Commissaire Ramel" was a French cargo-passenger ship, launched in 1920, that was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the during World War II. The ship was built by the "Société Provençale de Construction Navale" in La Ciotat under the name "General Duchesne", but was renamed "Commissaire Ramel" before launching, in honour of Paul Ramel, the purser of the ship , who was lost when his ship was torpedoed on 11 February 1917, and posthumously awarded the légion d'honneur. Displacing 16,620 tonnes, and 8,814 gross register tonnage, the ship was 152.50 metres long, with a beam of