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U-Boats in New England - Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45 (Hardcover)
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U-Boats in New England - Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45 (Hardcover)
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Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in
mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all
but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England
waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape
Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied
counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were
sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off
Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result
that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in
New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell.
There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs,
one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the
Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the
water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were
killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long
Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston
was mined. Very little was known about this.
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