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Germans are certainly prepared for, and have recently begun talking about, an Allied attack on the Lowlands or the French submarine coast from Brest to the south. The Germans themselves might take the great gamble of trying to knock Britain out. Success would not win the war for Germany (there would still be Russia), but the same sort of reasoning which impelled Hitler to turn on his Russian rear in 1941 might impel him to turn on his British rear...
...Fortresses and Liberators precisely planted bombs in Wilhelmshaven and Brest. By night R.A.F. Sterlings and Lancasters pattern-bombed Cologne and St. Nazaire. German targets were getting around-the-clock pounding such as they had never had before...
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...
...command of all Hitler's naval forces, may fear a bold attempt to seize the coast of Brittany, smash the submarines at their source, just as Allied air raids on Germany have attempted to choke off submarine construction. German broadcasts announced that civilians had been ordered out of Brest and Lorient. From Brest alone the evacuation of 22,000 nonessential civilians already was under...
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...