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Word: brieuc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby on Wheels | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

LONDON--American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, escorted by a strong cover of British Spitfires, attacked the enemy airfield a St. Brieuc, on the Brittany coast of France, last yesterday, an Air Ministry communique said today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAF Hits St. Brieuc | 3/16/1943 | See Source »

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