Word: lorient
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...supplies every week -- food and fuel as well as weapons. For this it required the services of some 3,000 merchant ships, and in this summer of 1940, Admiral Karl Donitz's submarine fleet not only acquired access to the Atlantic at the captured French naval base in Lorient but also started a lethal new tactic known as wolf packs. Instead of one lone U-boat sniping at an Allied convoy, three or more subs would attack simultaneously from different directions. On the night of Sept. 21, for example, a wolf pack attacked a convoy of 41 ships and sank...
Foreign Ministry spokesmen refused to link the latest expulsions specifically with the arrest of Bernard Sourisseau, who is alleged to have made regular trips to the Atlantic ports of Lorient and Brest to observe French naval movements. But wellplaced sources indicated the cases were linked...
Soviet interest in the Brest-Lorient region in northwestern France was cited in November 1983 by Brest Mayor Jacques Berthelot. He suspended a friendship agreement with the city of Tallinn in Estonia, saying Brest was becoming a key point for Soviet spying...