This would explain why “This is the first time ever that French fighter-bombers have landed on an American carrier and used its facilities.”
But, Frogman, that doesn't help explain you…are you sure you are not American? Maybe a great-great-great grandfather was conceived on American soil…French and Indian war maybe? Foot soldier under Lafayette? I just can't believe you are of the same France as those that would build their carrier deck too short.