Word: brest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swift strokes that reached into Brest. drove close to all of Brittany's other main ports (Saint-Nazaire, Lorient, Nantes, Saint-Malo...
...Brest. Saint-Nazaire, Lorient were the fattest of the prizes now within his grasp. Brest (pop. 74,000) and Saint-Nazaire (42,000) were deep-water ports the Americans sorely needed. They had been there before-in 1917 and 1918. From Saint-Nazaire's riverside wharves a vast flow of heavy material had been run to the front over a U.S.-built railroad 27 years ago. At Brest many a U.S. division had poured ashore. At least two of those divisions-the 4th and the 79th-were close to Brest again this week...
...Brest and Saint-Nazaire might be speedily put to use. The swiftness of the American advance had probably given the Germans little time to clog their harbors with destruction. But even if these ports and Lorient had been blocked and shattered, they were prizes of immediate value. They were the Germans' chief Atlantic U-boat bases. The Battle of the Atlantic, already beaten down to nuisance proportions, might be close...
...Germans had one good Atlantic base in France that was still not threatened by Allied soldiers: Bordeaux. Toward it last week, as U.S. troops entered Brest and closed on Saint-Nazaire, steamed seven German ships. Their presumed cargoes: key personnel and key supplies from the U-boat.base at Saint-Nazaire...
East of Warsaw, the great fortress of Brest-Litovsk finally fell, days after it was completely encircled and Rokossovsky's tanks had sped 'on across the Polish plain...