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...time. He further pointed out that the Nazi air strength is widely dispersed: Air Fleet One in eastern Germany, Air Fleet Two under Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands all the way to Petsamo in Finland, two other air fleets based on Vienna and Rumania, and an independent unit in Italy...
Meantime winter fogs emboldened Nazi destroyers based at Brest to slip across the Channel by night, hunting British sea traffic creeping along the island's south coast. R. N.'s 5th Destroyer Flotilla, commanded by King George's cousin, Captain The Lord Louis Mountbatten, in the brand-new Javelin, fell upon three raiders before dawn, drove them off with angry shellfire. As they lit out for Brest, the Germans loosed a flight of torpedoes, one of which caught the Javelin. She had to be nursed to port while R. A. F. fighters circled out from the headlands...
...Royal Navy's patrols -fewer by far than in World War I-must now cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...
...only one point would R. N. agree: the war by sea is certainly going to be intensified, but the R. N. would be the intensifier. During the week R. N. warships indulged again in their bold practice of shelling "invasion ports" along the German held French coast*-Dunkirk, Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient. Paris heard that before long the Germans would be driven back from the coast, presumably by a British expeditionary force landed under R. N.'s guns and R. A. F.'s bombs...
...guns at Cap Gris Nez, blasting barges at Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage to score direct hits on small German naval units at anchor...