• Thumbnail for Saint-Nazaire pocket
    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...
    18 KB (2,079 words) - 19:29, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint-Nazaire
    Saint-Nazaire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ nazɛʁ] ; Breton: Sant-Nazer/Señ Neñseir; Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique...
    37 KB (4,732 words) - 19:18, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Baule-Escoublac
    France. This episode is called Poche de Saint-Nazaire from the French expression poche de resistance. Chapelle Saint-Anne La Baule-Escoublac railroad...
    15 KB (1,457 words) - 12:52, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3rd Parachute Chasseur Regiment
    September, before regrouping at the beginning of October south of Poche de Saint-Nazaire. The 2nd squadron of Captain Pierre Sicaud was first parachuted...
    19 KB (2,368 words) - 04:28, 22 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bouvron, Loire-Atlantique
    "beaver") and onnos (= "river"). Monument of the surrender of the Poche of Saint-Nazaire 11 May 1945 This monument is a reminder that the Second World War...
    6 KB (658 words) - 12:39, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Allied siege of La Rochelle
    campaigns were launched. La Rochelle and other harbours such as Royan and Saint-Nazaire, became "Atlantic pockets" still occupied by the Germans, which were...
    10 KB (935 words) - 07:02, 1 April 2024
  • Holland, Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and the Gironde estuary. In February and March 1944 three...
    5 KB (425 words) - 03:41, 26 December 2023
  • entire Pays de Retz. Owned by a small family group, it ceased to appear in 1944 at about the same time as Paimboeuf fell within the Saint-Nazaire pocket....
    6 KB (468 words) - 17:34, 15 April 2023
  • His Wandering Star Film Company (2015) Chaplin in Bali (2017) La Poche de Saint-Nazaire, une si longue occupation (2019) The Voyages of Matisse - Chasing...
    13 KB (1,420 words) - 17:18, 17 March 2023
  • around the Saint-Nazaire pocket : 16,500 men under command of colonel Raymond Chomel. South, pockets of La Rochelle, Royan and Pointe de Grave, 12,000...
    6 KB (677 words) - 08:41, 14 November 2023