France Dedicates First Super Carrier to WWII Resistance Forces

French President Emmanuel Macron dedicated France’s first super carrier to the Free French Forces of World War II, announcing Wednesday that the 80,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be named FS France Libre (R92). Paris’ next-generation flagship will be the latest in an unbroken chain of domestically designed and built catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) carriers since the 1960s. The French Navy is one of three nations – the other two being the U.S. Navy and China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy – with an active CATOBAR aircraft carrier. France is also the only operator of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers aside from