Word: lorient
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Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North...
...ought to know. Last week, to please and appease Londoners who had lost much, British planes bombed Berlin for four and five hours a night. But the main heat of R. A. F. attack still licked at German-held ports, all the way from Stettin on the Baltic to Lorient, the port below the cape of Brittany where France built much of her Navy...
German concentrations as far south as Lorient led to a revival of the suspicion that Ireland might receive the first blow. Nothing had been heard from the huge concentration of troops and planes in Norway, except for an unconfirmed rumor that Aberdeen had been cut flat by bombs. Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down...
...west, German armored columns thrust steel fingers around one seaport after another-St. Malo, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, St. Nazaire, La Rochelle-reaching for Bordeaux. German and Italian bombers repeated at Bordeaux their performance of last fortnight at Tours, dumping death into the overcrowded city to panic the populace and complete France's demoralization. This stopped only when white flags were flown in a wide circle around Bordeaux...
...soon heard a story that Michel Henriot, 23, married less than two years, had insured his wife's life for 800,000 francs. A few hours of questioning and Michel Henriot confessed. The boy's father, cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot is prosecutor for the department of Lorient. Pale and shaken by the news he resigned, announcing that he would undertake the defense...