Word: arn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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from doing the same. Until November a British containing force cruised outside the spacious (15 sq. mi.), deep harbor of Fort de France, bottling up the French warships inside: the old, waddly carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Bertin, a few lesser ships, and U.S. warplanes-now partly dismantled, salt-bitten, obsolescent but still useful if they were overhauled-which the Béarn had brought...
...Western Hemisphere, in Martinique, Guadaloupe and French Guiana, where 80% of the officials were reported for De Gaulle, plebiscites were planned. In Martinique harbor lay the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d'Arc, the aircraft carrier Béarn with 130 U. S.-made airplanes aboard...