Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "'Free' Navies of World War 2 - Small but Deadly (and a little crazy)" video.

  1. They had a CV, MNS Bearn - not a great one, she served in the valuable role as an aircraft transport under the Cross of Lorraine, not a carrier, but it was a job that needed to be done and she freed up a CVE or two.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Béarn
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  2. What about these Free French Sailors....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Régiment_Blindé_de_Fusiliers-Marins
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  3. COL BEAUSABRE 1 second ago Two French BB's 1) HMS Richelieu which was refitted at New York Naval Shipyard https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h3L_Fb_PvCs/XJZ4H91Ok3I/AAAAAAAA6Fc/OqMgmPsQLwo5iT65yFYOVw1N7HeFFMvYgCLcBGAs/s1600/Richelieu-New-York-819x1024.jpg - that's the Brooklyn Bridge in the background - (notably radar, 50 X 20mm and 56 X 40mm guns added and a wrecked 15-incher replaced) supplied with US made ammunition for its French guns and sent to join the British East Indies Fleet where she teamed with HMS Renown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Richelieu 2) and the WWI super-dreadnought Lorraine, modernized in the Thirties, which supported Operation Anvil-Dragoon and then blockaded and bombarded French Atlantic ports still occupied by the Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Lorraine and http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/france/battleships/lorraine/1946_00_00_lorraine_a.jpg
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