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...port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...
TIME does produce great changes, but one of the strangest things it has accomplished is moving Dogger Bank from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay (TIME, May 8). Where are all your accomplished researchers...
...crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...
...nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
...Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME, Jan. 3). Last week it paid off once more: in the Bay of Biscay, two British warships closed with and sank three enemy destroyers, damaged several others, also sank a heavily laden blockade runner...