From Fri Jun 06 22:01:43 1997
>From: John Snyder
>Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:44:18 -0700
>To: mahan@microwrks.com
>Subject: Re: Refits of RN ships in USA
>Organization: MacNexus, the Sacramento Macintosh User Group
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>Brooks Rowlett wrote:
>
>positng there a list of major French warhisp of WWII. It should be
>noted that the following major French warships had refits in the US in
>1943-44:
>
>Battleship RICHILIEU
>Carrier BEARN (to aircraft transport)
>heavy cruisers DUQUESNE and TOURVILLE
>CL’s EMILE BERTIN, GLOIRE, MONTCALM, and GEORGES LEYGUES
>Training CL JEANNE D”ARC
>LE FANTASQUE class destroyers (nameship), LE TERRIBLE, and LE MALIN.>>
>
>SNIP
>
>GLOIRE emerged from her refit painted in the USN’s zebra-stripe “Adaptor”
>camouflage, a scheme normally associated with USN PTs.
>
>John Snyder
>John_Snyder@bbs.macnexus.org

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