Word: lorient
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...Lorient-German submarine base some 60 miles west of St.-Nazaire; landings feasible on both sides...
...Brest-major port protected by permanent forts and an unusually rocky coastline. Possible landing beaches are southward across the bay; the most obvious attack would be from the Lorient area...
...Boat Bases: Eight of eleven operational bases attacked. Brest (very light), Lorient (considerable), St. Nazaire (very heavy), La Pallice (severe), Trondheim (most severe), Helgoland (very light), Bordeaux (very light permanent damage), Gdynia (negligible material damage, considerable morale destruction by shattering sense of security). Concrete pens for U-boats, heavily bombed many times, were damaged only at Trondheim...
...Summer Tide. The Allies conceded that their counter-measures were so far inadequate. Heavy bombers stormed over submarine repair and construction centers at Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Vegesack, but with limited success. A recent raid on Vegesack, touted as "possibly the heaviest single blow of the war against U-boat production," resulted in damage to seven of 15 unfinished U-boats. Germany's submarine production, to which all other naval building is subordinate, may be as high as 40 a month; Doenitz may already have upward of 600 raiders in his fleet...
...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...