Thank you again, Luc, for your very detailed account of Allied bombings of the sub pens at Lorient. Also for your note that after the war British leaders observed that they should have hit Lorient harder during that period. Here's some other material I've been able to gather to answer my own question, “Why weren't the new Keroman sub pens at Lorient bombed in a concentrated wa
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Well, thank you very much, M. Braeuer. I was just heading to a college library to find books about RAF operations 1940-43 to see whether I could figure this out. I greatly appreciate your helpful description. I think your last sentence is the explanation. I'm guessing the RAF at that period had too many Europe-wide targets and too few planes; and they were just realizing that their bombing w
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Okay, thanks very much. Do you know of an English-language book which includes this topic? I'm surprised that constant bombing didn't prevent the construction of these important targets, during a period when Britain had an active bomber force, the target was close, and Churchill considered the Atlantic lifeline Britain's most worrisome problem. Thanks again, Don
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Does anyone know why the new German submarine pens at L'Orient were not bombed by the Allies when the pens were being constructed for 2 years, 1941-43? It seems to me the construction would have been vulnerable. Does anyone know books which cover this? Thanks. Flaccus
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