Hitler's U-Boat Fortresses

Name: Hitler's U-Boat Fortresses
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ISBN: 9780275981334

ISBN-10: 0275981339

ISBN-13: 9780275981334

Edition: 2003

Authors: Randolph Bradham

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The French naval bases at St. Nazaire and Lorient, occupied by the Germans in June 1940, quickly became the homes of massive U-boat fortresses--nearly indestructible submarine pens, built by mostly slave labor. From these bases, the U-boats struck merchant shipping at will from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Thousands of vessels were lost, along with vital war materiel destined for Britain and the Soviet Union. As a result, the Royal Air Force began an all-out bombardment of the two ports. Despite their extensive efforts--and those of the Americans who joined them in 1942, the fortresses would survive, surrounded by the decimated French towns and countryside. This is the story of what…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



1940


The Beginning


Aerial Bombardment


U-Boat Menace


Those Who Would Resist



1941


Expansion of the U-Boat Bases


Bombardment Continues


The Resistance



1942


U-Boat Destruction


Operation Chariot


Evacuation, Bombardments, and U-Boats



1943


Bombardment Intensifies--The Apocalypse


February 28, 1943--The Apocalypse


The U-Boats Meet Resistance


French Forces of the Interior--Origin



1944


Germans on the Defensive


The Resistance Mobilizes for War


The Resistance Movement in Morbihan and in the Loire Atlantic


La Nouette, 6 to 18 June, 1944


The Battle



1944--July, August, September


Breakout and Engagement


General Fahrmbacher's Report Post-War on Preparation of the Defense of Lorient


Hennebont


French Forces Mobilize for War


83rd Infantry Division Captures 20,000 Germans



1944--October, November, December


Ground War--94th Infantry Division Takes Over


Record of 94th Infantry Division


French Battle Germans South of the Loire River


Sinking of the Leopoldville



1945


Enter the 66th Infantry (Black Panther) Division


French Forces Reorganize and Strongly Hold the Line


Official Record of the 66th Infantry Division


History of the Pockets


Campaign of the Pockets


Evacuations



Surrender


Monuments


Bibliography


Index