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Pocket Place Garrison Allied assault began Surrendered Cherbourg pocket: Cherbourg: 15,000 men: 6 June 1944: 30 June 1944 Saint-Malo pocket: Saint-Malo: 12,000 men: 3 August 1944: 14 August 1944 [2] Le Havre pocket: Le Havre: 14,000 men: 10 September 1944: 12 September 1944 Brest pocket: Brest: 37,000 men: 7 August 1944: 19 September 1944 ...
The Royan pocket (French: Poche de Royan) was one of the Atlantic pockets towards the end of World War II, an isolated position held by German troops left behind as the German army retreated from occupied France. It became important to the German High Command that these pockets be held to deny port facilities to the advancing Allies.
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 1945 and was formed by the withdrawal of German troops from Loire-Inférieure (now Loire-Atlantique) during the liberation of the department by the allied forces.
Monument to the "pocket of La Rochelle" ("Mémorial de la poche de La Rochelle 1944-1945"), near Saint-Sauveur-d'Aunis.. US troops remained in the area around La Rochelle, as part of North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrangements, at the bases of La Rochelle, [13] Croix-Chapeau, Bussac-Forêt, [14] and Saint-Jean-d'Angély (Fontenet) until 1966.
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La Participation des Forces françaises de l'intérieur aux opérations des fronts de l'Atlantique et des Alpes et à la réorganisation de l'armée 1944–1945 [The Participation of the French Forces from the Interior in the Operations of the Atlantic and Alps Fronts and the Reorganization of the Army 1944–1945]. Les Grandes Unités Françaises.
Archaeologists believe that Saint-Nazaire is built upon the remnants of Corbilo, an Armorican Gaulish city populated by the Namnetes tribe, which (according to the Greek navigator Pytheas) was the second-largest Gaulish city, after Massilia (now Marseille).
Kieran jumped first, followed by Ricks and eventually at 2.20 am, Prentice jumped from the rapidly sinking stern and fell about 30 metres (100 feet) into the icy Atlantic, narrowly avoiding Titanic ' s propellers on the way down. When Prentice resurfaced, he was unhurt, having avoided hitting any debris or people when he landed in the water.