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Approaching Brest at night, the Atlantic traveler gets his first winking, warning sign of his destination from the lighthouse of He d'Ouessant, better known as Ushant. Poet Conrad Aiken has never seen Ushant, but he has thought & thought about it. To him it stands for Europe, the wide world, a life of physical and spiritual voyaging...
...party would probably put up bumbling, hard-boiled Andre Marty of Spanish Civil War notoriety as the front man. The government, which had already jailed scores of Stalinists amid general applause, went on a hunt for big game. Pinay's men said that they raided Communist centers in Brest, Lorient and Bordeaux, and announced that they had broken an espionage case at Toulon...
...ship's cargo was not coffee and pig iron, but "diverse war materials, including a large number of optical sights and parts of V-2 rocket bombs," all made illegally in West Germany. Fearing that the French might learn of this if the Flying Enterprise put into Brest, the U.S. Defense Department ordered Captain Carlsen to weather out the gale, and sent two destroyers to take off the war cargo. They lost the ship because they were not as efficient at salvage as the Russians...
Restelli served two years with the Army Engineers. Another high-flying rookie, the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting third baseman, Eddie Kazak, was a paratrooper and combat infantryman; he was bayoneted by a Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha...
...Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted by aircraft at Brest. Before Sir John got within range, the Bismarck had been crippled by a carrier-plane torpedo attack. It was 8:47 on the morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away...