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...wasn't sure I was in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, I would bet this was Bremen or a Munich beer hall...
...than 50 large ships sunk in the harbor. But damage to the docks was not so great as expected, and British minesweepers were busy clearing the channel. At Bremerhaven and Wesermünde it was believed that 20 Liberty ships could soon be docked. Eight ships could dock at Bremen...
Prize Ship. The United States Lines and Britain's great Cunard White Star Ltd. both began maneuvering to obtain North German Lloyd's 50,000-ton, blue-ribbon liner Europa, found in fairly good condition. Neither wanted the Europa's sister ship, the Bremen, so badly damaged that she was considered a total loss...
...under four occupation governments: Russia in Berlin and the East (less the Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
Twelve administrative sections will oversee every phase of German life. A transport section will supervise all traffic systems, and (with the Navy) handle port and coastal operations. (Although occupying an inland zone, the U.S. forces will have access to the North Sea port of Bremen.) The political section, presumably to be under the State Department's Robert Murphy, will direct both foreign and domestic affairs. Food, agriculture and forestry, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, industrial conversion and liquidation will be under a huge economics section. Brigadier General ("Wild Bill") Donovan...