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Shadow Divers Exposed - The Real Saga of the U-869 (Paperback, New)
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Shadow Divers Exposed - The Real Saga of the U-869 (Paperback, New)
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The U-869 was one of more than 1,200 U-boats that were constructed
for the Nazi war machine. It was sunk off the American eastern
seaboard by a combination hedgehog and depth-charge attack. There
were no survivors to tell the tragic tale. Now, for the first time,
the real saga of the U-869 can be told in full. Archival documents
have established that the U-boat was sunk by two American destroyer
escorts. Seven crewmembers of those aggressive warships have
supplemented the official record with their personal recollections.
Shadow Divers Exposed works on a multitude of levels. It presents
the actual circumstances that surrounded the loss of the U-869. It
puts the discovery of the U-869 into perspective with other U-boats
that have been found in American waters. It provides an overview of
the U-boat war through accounts of other U-boat losses. And it
corrects some of the gross errors, wild exaggerations, and
deliberate distortions that filled the pages of Shadow Divers. The
author interviewed a number of witnesses whose testimony
contradicted the theatrical plot and boastful embellishments that
formed the essential ingredients of Shadow Divers. Some of these
witnesses actually performed the deeds for which the chosen
protagonists of Shadow Divers were given credit. These witnesses
disputed many of the fictitious elements that ran rampant through
the pages of Shadow Divers. By means of forensic analyses of
shipwreck collapse, torpedo mechanics, and U-boat survivors'
accounts, the present volume explains why the U-869 could not have
been sunk by a circular run of its own torpedo - as Shadow Divers
had its uninformed readers believe.
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