Word: biscay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
...feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days at sea, they...
...amphibious attack across the Bay of Biscay through northern Spain...
...Marshal of France," snapped Henri Philippe Pétain at his judges more than a year ago, "begs nobody's mercy!" A solitary prisoner now in France's Ile d'Yeu Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole...