Formerly the Royal Navy Colossus, the Arromanches aircraft carrier was built in 1944 at the Vickers Armstrong yard and sold to France in 1946. After exercises in the North Atlantic to train the new French crew, she sails from Toulon in 1948 for Indochina. Until 1953 she will be there four times and will give strong and efficient support to the French expeditionary force in Indochina. She participated in action during the Rivière Noire and Dien Bien Phu battles. Between each campaign she would return to France for careening and renewal of her planes.

In 1955, she was involved in allied exercises in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic and was an active participant in the definition of new hunter/killer attack procedures, anti submarine warfare and convoy air defence. She was awarded the War Cross with palm for service abroad while in Indochina.

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Model building : medium difficulty

Scale of drawing : 1/300th , one plan, two photographs, one notice (french).