Word: brest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve feet of reinforced concrete protect Admiral Karl Doenitz' U-boats when they put into Lorient and Brest for rest, repairs and refueling. Some Allied sources say that constant air raids, by smashing more poorly protected surface shops and power stations, have lowered the efficiency of Lorient and Brest as much as 75%, but the U-boats in packs still prowl forth into the Atlantic...
While the British bombed Italy by night, American Flying Fortresses kept up their steady schedule of attack on Nazi arsenals in Occupied France. They blasted targets at Brest, the Nazis' Atlantic U-boat nest, where they shot down four Nazi fighters, lost one of their own fighter escort. Next day they struck at the factory-studded area around Lille where they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where...
...that is not enough to cover the entire coast against a major attack anywhere. But Panzers have mobility, and Rundstedt has placed them where they can use it. One of them is probably stationed near Rennes, for a quick dash up the roads to any threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe-Boulogne line to back up (last week it dashed to Dieppe to meet the Canadians). The third is reported to be quartered at Ghent, covers the Calais-Ostend-Flushing zone...
...Hitler is forearmed. He knows that the main blow of any full-scale invasion must fall somewhere between Brest and Den Helder, where The Netherlands had its chief naval base (see map, p. jo). Over the area where they first seek an invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic...
Three kinds of defeat were conceivable: 1) total defeat, the Red army smashed, all Russia overrun; 2) defeat ending in a negotiated peace such as Brest-Litovsk, which in 1918 left a Russia nominally independent but under Germany's economic thralldom; 3) partial defeat, with the Red army retreating behind the Urals and European Russia's people and resources abandoned to the Axis, at least for the present. The first possibilities seemed remote enough to be ruled out. The third was a real threat. Loss of European Russia would mean these things to the other United Nations...