Word: biscay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...
When traveling by train on postal business, he wrote on a portable desk with a lamp (almost the whole of Bar Chester Towers was so written). En route to Egypt, to conclude a Postal Treaty with the Egyptian Government, he wrote his way across the Bay of Biscay, pausing between paragraphs to rush to the rail and vomit...
...Southeast Asia and in the great islands of Indonesia, half a million enemy troops were thus cut off. They would remain, as a giant hedgehog behind the Allied front, just as the German garrisons in Channel and Biscay ports remained after the sweep across France. They would remain for a similar purpose : to deny such ports and bases as Singapore and Saigon, Batavia and Suerabaja to the Allies. Others like them would remain in major Chinese ports, such as Canton, Amoy and Swatow...
...bonanza for a storybook. There 20,000 Germans were handed over to U.S. troops as stubby Major General Erich Elster, bemedaled and sticking to the Prussian amenities, flourished his pistol in surrender. His big force was the remainder of a German army that had held the Bordeaux-Biscay area. Cut off hundreds of miles behind the Allied lines, harried by Maquis, raked by aircraft on the roads, they had laboriously marched to the safety of U.S. custody...
...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...