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    base of Saint-Nazaire is one of five large fortified U-boat pens built by Germany during the Second World War in occupied Saint-Nazaire, France. Before...
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    German submarine U-552 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    home base until she was transferred to the occupied French port of St Nazaire in mid-March 1941. U-552's first official war patrol began on 18 February...
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    German submarine U-461 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    March 1943. Having departed St. Nazaire on 13 February, she returned there for the last time on 22 March. She left St.Nazaire on 20 April 1943, but was attacked...
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    military, is implanted in Saint-Nazaire (Chantiers de l'Atlantique), Lorient and Brest; Airbus has plants in Saint-Nazaire and Nantes; and Peugeot has a...
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    German submarine U-96 (1940) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    destination, U-96 made for the port of Saint Nazaire. On the way she encountered the Spanish SS Cabo de Hornos, which returned from South America, after...
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    Pallice (Base sous-marine de La Rochelle [fr]); it was started in April 1941. Similar building techniques to those used in St. Nazaire were employed. Due to...
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    Erich Topp (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Leaving Saint-Nazaire on 9 June, Topp sank five ships totaling 15,825 GRT before returning to port 10 days later. Topp formed part of a strong wolf pack against...
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  • immediately before the Allies can react. Fairburne deploys to the town of Saint Nazaire where the U-boat pen is kept under tightened Kriegsmarine security, where...
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    German submarine U-462 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    her first patrol, U-462 departed Kiel on 23 July 1942 and arrived at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 21 September of the same year, having travelled by...
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    RMS Lancastria (category Saint-Nazaire)
    leave. Lancastria was sunk on 17 June 1940 off the French port of St. Nazaire while taking part in Operation Aerial, the evacuation of British nationals...
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  • 2024. D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 21, 2023). "Sony Dates Apple's 'Wolfs' & 'Project Artemis' For 2024". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 21...
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  • small numbers of U-boats active there again saw the employment of the lone wolf approach by the U-boat Arm. Although the wolfpacks proved a serious threat...
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    17 April 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022. DeLong & Eichengreen 1993, pp. 190–191 Balabkins 1964, p. 212. Wolf 1993, pp. 29–30, 32 Bull & Newell 2005, pp...
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    March 2020. Oakley, Captain Derek. "The Origin of the Green Beret". St Nazaire Society website. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved...
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    Cuxhaven Germany U-510 48? Alfred Eick May 9 May 9 Surrendered in St. Nazaire Germany All forces on Jersey 11,671 Vice Admiral Friedrich Hüffmeier May...
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    Ateliers et Chantiers de France at Dunkirk and four from Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët at Saint-Nazaire. The two At. & Ch. de France ships are listed...
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    collapse. His memory was of marching day and night in the summer heat to St-Nazaire. There, in June, the regiment was disbanded, the officers abandoning their...
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  • June 1938. In September 1940, the flotilla relocated from Kiel to St. Nazaire in France and was subsequently renamed the "7th U-boat Flotilla". During...
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  • medicine at the École de Médecine. At 19, he joined the French Resistance as a medic, working at the Atlantic seaport of Saint-Nazaire, where he helped smuggle...
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    Liberation of France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    OCLC 1037916970. Retrieved 23 July 2020. "Charles de Gaulle biography". Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. Wolf, John B., "Will the French Republic Live...
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    The 1999 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 3 to 25 July, and the 86th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although...
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    Schutzstaffel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Italy, opening a two-front war for Germany. Alarmed by the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe in 1942, Hitler had ordered the construction of fortifications...
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  • German submarine U-607 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    another. On 24 April 1943, U-607 departed St Nazaire on active patrol under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Wolf Jeschonnek. Jeschonnek had served on U-607...
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  • German submarine U-463 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    U-463 departed Kiel on her first patrol on 11 July 1942, arriving at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 3 September. She had gone the 'long' way round the...
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    Karl Dönitz (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    or 'wolf packs' which were coordinated by radio from land. With the fall of France, Germany acquired U-boat bases at Lorient, Brest, St Nazaire, and...
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    German submarine U-99 (1940) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was assigned to the 7th U-boat Flotilla based in Kiel and later in St Nazaire. U-99 was one of the most successful German U-boats in the war, sinking...
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    people from Saint-Nazaire on 17 June. Sources disagree whether she took these to Falmouth or Plymouth. Arandora Star's trip to Saint-Nazaire was fairly uneventful;...
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    Mommsen, Reichhardt & Wolf; The German Resistance to Hitler; B. T. Batsford Ltd; London; 1970; pp. 198–99 Graml, Mommsen, Reichhardt & Wolf; The German Resistance...
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  • 1093/bioinformatics/btw354. PMC 5039924. PMID 27312411. DeLuca DS, Levin JZ, Sivachenko A, Fennell T, Nazaire MD, Williams C, et al. (June 2012). "RNA-SeQC: RNA-seq...
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    designed by Dominique Presles is built of aluminium by the N2A shipyard in St Nazaire, under the control of Bureau Véritas. During their voyage several team...
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