# Churchill, FDR: Logistics/travel arrangements for WWII conferences?

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> By September 1944, the Allies had captured all of the German submarine bases in France, so that also would be a major factor, wouldn’t it?

Not … exactly. Lorient, in particular, didn’t surrender until 2 days after the surrender of Germany in 1945. It was by far the biggest and most important U-boat base around.

OTOH, once it was surrounded in the summer of 1944, it was pretty useless.

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