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Subject: Zeebrugge articles in US Marine Corps Gazette

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Joe Osman

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Date Posted: 10:20:29 03/30/06 Thu

BLOCKING THE BELGIAN BASES
Author: H A De Weerd
Date: May 1935
Start Page: 10
Text Word Count: 4373
Excerpt:
Almost immediately a controversy arose over the effectiveness of the blocking operations. The British reported the harbor completely blocked and fortified their contention with aerial photographs showing the position of the block ships. In view of the generally conservative character of British Admiralty reports this view was widely accepted.

ST GEORGE FOR ENGLAND
Author: Robert B Asprey
Date: Jul 1959
Start Page: 36
Text Word Count: 4219
Excerpt:
Only one-half mile west of the canal Zeebrugge Mole curves almost one and one-half miles into the ocean. Connected to the mainland by a 300 yard road and railway viaduct, the outer Mole is an 80 yard wide stone structure. On its seaward side a pathway runs 16 feet above the base, 360 yards beyond the Mole proper, to a lighthouse at the tip. A seaward parapet three and one-half feet high borders this pathway.

Combined Operations, 1918
Author: Lord Keyes
Date: Nov 1943
Start Page: 51
Text Word Count: 4441
Excerpt:
Zeebrugge harbour is connected by a ship-canal with the inland docks at Bruges, which communicates again by means of a system of smaller canals with Ostend harbour. The whole forms a triangle with two sea entrances. The eastern side, which is 8 miles long, is the ship-canal from Zeebrugge to Bruges; the southern side, which is 11 miles long, consists of smaller canals from Bruges to Ostend; the base, facing northwest, is the 12 miles of heavily fortified coast line between Ostend and Zeebrugge.

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