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Until last week Plouvien was just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...
When Caesar's legions first saw the granite-bound harbors of Armorica (ancient Celtic for Brittany, meaning near the sea) they built their forts on the high ground nearby. The Bretons who came five centuries later fortified its coasts. Through the centuries Norsemen, Norman dukes, British and French kings battled in long sieges of Breton bastions...
Omar Bradley got his good weather on July 25 and touched off his rocket. It swooshed through the chute, burst out of Normandy, burned a path to Avranches and the north corner of the Breton peninsula...
...Sweeps that shot across the 100-mile base of Brittany to the Bay of Biscay in four days; a 138-mile thrust westward that reached into the tip of the Breton peninsula. Brittany was cut off, then cut in two from...
...Channel was kinder now. The crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...