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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...
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...
...Brest-Litovsk, the great Nazi fortress in Poland east of Warsaw, was almost encircled at week's end, and Red artillery was pulverizing its garrison. Joseph Stalin & Co. would no doubt find a saturnine pleasure in dictating peace terms at Brest-Litovsk. It was there, on March 3, 1918, that the Kaiser's men, "sword in hand," laid down their harsh peace terms to the representatives of Trotsky and Lenin...
Marsh Job. Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper. Then he started to erase the German salient in the marshes, at the base of which lay Brest-Litovsk...