French warships refitted in U.S. ports to resume war on Axis. The 35,000-ton Richelieu, largest battleship of the French Navy, arrives at an East coast port of the United States after crossing the Atlantic from Dakar to be fitted out to resume the fight against the Axis. Three more French warships are in American ports for new equipment. Forty-two other units of the French navy are in action, or preparing to go into action, in the ranks of the United Nations