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Chief of these objectives was Brest...
...chief port with everything they had. Waves of bombs broke over the harbor, destroyed a German light cruiser, heavily damaged a destroyer and 14 cargo ships. England's ancient and honored battleship War spite, serenely standing 18 miles out, in 150 minutes plunked 212 rounds into Brest's forts, knocked out four big-gun batteries...
Toward the other German-held Brittany ports-Saint-Nazaire and Lorient -U.S. soldiers plugged at a less spectacular pace. The British, ready to close on Le Havre, hoped it would not become another Brest. But they had little hope that the Germans, if they were squeezed out, would not first clog its deep port with destruction, as they had Cherbourg...
...Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire, Germans still held out, but elsewhere in Brittany German resistance was battered down. This week the besieged ports were more than ever prizes worth the price in casualties and time; their deep harbors were sorely needed for the vast stream of supplies to the swiftly expanding Allied front in northern France...
Plouvien had been left behind by U.S. tank columns bearing south to the siege of Brest, ten miles away. By the time their vanguard had passed, Plouvien's 2,500 citizens had decked their cottages with the tricolor and with homemade U.S. flags, The men came in from the fields to celebrate liberation...