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    La Pallice (also known as grand port maritime de La Rochelle) is the commercial deep-water port of La Rochelle, France. During the Fall of France, on...
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    separate La Rochelle and La Pallice so they are usually considered as one port. An unnamed bunker was built at La Pallice (Base sous-marine de La Rochelle [fr]);...
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    on the Atlantic coast and sent the AASF anti-aircraft batteries to La Pallice and La Rochelle, the least important embarkation harbours. Nantes and St...
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    Doré, a native of La Rochelle. During the Second World War, Germany established a submarine naval base at La Pallice (the main port of La Rochelle). A German...
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    Siege of La Rochelle, plate 1. Plate 2: the sea wall and Les Minimes. Plate 3: Aytré. Plate 4: area of La Pallice and Laleu. Plate 5: overview of La Rochelle...
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    hit on 6 April 1941 and Scharnhorst on 24 July 1941, after dispersal to La Pallice. In late 1941, Adolf Hitler ordered the Oberkommando der Marine (OKM;...
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    German industry. After repairs were completed in July, Scharnhorst went to La Pallice for trials on the 21st, where she easily steamed at 30 knots (56 km/h;...
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  • January 1942 U-333 was transferred to the 3rd U-boat Flotilla based at La Pallice for front-line service. The U-boat made 12 combat patrols in the next...
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  • conditions, the submarine was eventually towed to La Pallice and then to the harbour (Bassin à flot) of La Rochelle On 14 February 1864, during trials in...
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  • Buchheim to join its mission of carrying naval officials to La Pallice, the port for La Rochelle, which succeeds despite the submarine being greatly...
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    to hunt ships. The German bases in France at Brest, Lorient, and La Pallice (near La Rochelle), were about 450 miles (720 km) closer to the Atlantic than...
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    "Oropesa" shipping company "Pacific Steam Navigation Company, from La Rochelle (La Pallice) in France. The majority of migrants were born in the Netherlands:...
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  • arrived at her new home port of La Pallice on the French Atlantic coast on 9 December 1942. The U-boat departed La Pallice on 16 January 1943 for a patrol...
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  • soldiers from French ports of Cherbourg, St. Malo, Brest, St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Nantes, and Le Havre. 17 June: Petain asked Germany for armistice terms...
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    and arrived Brest on 11 September. Upon returning to New York City from La Pallice on 17 October, the ship again sailed for France with a United States Army...
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    Everett's mission #3 was to the sub pens at La Pallice, France on July 4, 1943. On the mission to La Pallice, a total of 71 B-17s hit the target with the...
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    Germans would not destroy the port installations of La Rochelle-La Pallice. In effect, La Rochelle was surrounded efficiently enough, and suffered enough...
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    France, Germany acquired U-boat bases at Lorient, Brest, St Nazaire, and La Pallice/La Rochelle and Bordeaux. This extended the range of Type VIIs. Regardless...
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    Smaller strikes were made at Rennes naval depot and U-boat yards at La Pallice. In the attack, seven YB-40s were dispatched to Saint-Nazaire; they were...
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    Instead Keroman Submarine Base was the primary target. 8 August 1944 – La Pallice Flight Lieutenant Thomas Iveson dropped one Tallboy. 28 August 1944 –...
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    German-occupied Channel Islands 9 May 1945 La Rochelle/La Pallice Ernst Schirlitz 11,500 Allied siege of La Rochelle 9 May 1945 Le Havre Hermann-Eberhard...
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    Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen,...
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    Société des autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France, Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône and Autoroutes du Sud de la France 2007 Entry of Thales into the capital...
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  • unarmored bow. Scharnhorst was attacked by British bombers while stationed in La Pallice; she was hit by five bombs, all of which penetrated the ship's armored...
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    Chantiers et Ateliers de Saint-Nazaire, Penhoët. She was sunk by a mine off La Pallice, France, in 1940—one of the earliest passenger ship losses of the Second...
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    1940, Sosabowski with approximately 6,000 Polish soldiers arrived at La Pallice, whence they were evacuated to Great Britain. Upon his arrival in London...
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    Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen,...
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    and supplies quickly and efficiently. The French harbors of Bordeaux, La Pallice, Saint Nazaire, and Brest became the entry points into the French railway...
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  • Institute of Technology. 1946 – Le Corbusier draws up plans for La Rochelle-La Pallice, while his efforts to redesign Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (both cities...
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    waters. The sister ships visited the French ports of Royan, Île-d'Aix, La Pallice, and Brest from 23 June – 25 July, before returning to Tompkinsville in...
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