The Saint-Nazaire Pocket (German: Festung St. Nazaire, French: Poche de Saint-Nazaire) was an Atlantic pocket that existed from August 1944 until 11 May...
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Die Festung ('The Fortress') is a German-language novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, the sequel to his 1973 Das Boot. It was published in 1995 by Hoffmann...
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Holland, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Gironde estuary. In February and March 1944 three...
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Saint-Nazaire submarine base (not in R633) North of Utah Beach Oye-Plage Wn Lo25 Le Locmiquel, west of Lorient Ra230 Fort de la Cite d'Aleth, Saint-Malo...
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moving east, towards Germany, much faster. Other ports were Saint Malo, Lorient, and Saint Nazaire in Brittany and Cherbourg and Le Havre in Normandy (which...
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Admiral Karl Dönitz. The officers talk about the Hotel Majestic near the Saint-Nazaire submarine base, a real place, a U-boat hang out. Life on the U-Boat...
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pictures, plans and descriptions of the fortifications in the island, Festung Guernsey. Many major ports and positions were incorporated into the Atlantic...
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aircraft. Unable to reach her destination, U-96 made for the port of Saint Nazaire. On the way she encountered the Spanish SS Cabo De Hornos, which returned...
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Atlantic Pocket of Lorient surrendered on 10 May. The Atlantic Pocket of Saint-Nazaire surrendered on 11 May. The Battle of Slivice, the last battle in occupied...
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"Tourism policies in French post-2nd-World-War-reconstructed cities: Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre & Lorient." City tourism 2002: Proceedings of European Cities...
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