U-Boats Offshore: When Hitler Struck America

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The closest actual combat came to the continental United States in World War II was when German submarines stationed themselves off the East Coast and turned major shipping lanes into "Happy Hunting Grounds" for Hitler's torpedoes. Edwin P. Hoyt's 1978 history tells how this happened, and how it began to be reversed after more than a year of painful adjustment. Hoyt has ransacked the public libraries of the East Coast cities from Long Island to Florida, the Washington Naval Archives, Samuel Eliot Morison's WW II naval histories, Admiral Doenitz' biography, etc., and produced a chock-a-block history of U-boat action off the coast during 1942 and 1943 and American unpreparedness. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SYNOPSIS U-BOAT DIAGRAM 1 U-BOAT DIAGRAM 2 PREFACE SEA WAR UNEASY PEACE THE DRUMS BEAT ONSLAUGHT WHEN DEFENSE WAS NO DEFENSE THE ADMIRALS TAKE STOCK OIL ON THE BEACHES THE FATE OF JACOB JONES THE WINDS OF MARCH “SHUT OFF THAT GODDAM LIGHT . . .” “THE ANSWER IS NO.” THE Q-SHIP CAPER FUMBLING “NO MORE TANKERS WILL SAIL . . . “ THE FIRST U-BOAT THE END OF H.M.S. BEDFORDSHIRE HOW NOT TO FIGHT A U-BOAT THE SECOND U-BOAT THE JUGGLING ACT A MATTER OF INFORMATION THE MISADVENTURE OF YP-389 THIS HARBOR IS MINED! THE AMAGANSETT INCIDENT “GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS . . .” “WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYHOW?” A MATTER OF TRADITION THE LIGHTS OF MIAMI FORGING A WEAPON THE THIRD U-BOAT … AND FOURTH MYSTERIES OF THE SEA CONVOYS THE GREAT NANTUCKET U-BOAT HUNT MYSTERIOUS MINES— AND SABOTAGE THE TALE OF THE WANDERING YAWL THE DAY THEY CLOSED THE PORT OF NEW YORK THE SECOND COMING OF ADMIRAL DOENITZ THE MIRACLES OF THE SEA THE TENTH FLEET “A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME” AUTHOR’S NOTE CHAPTER NOTES PHOTOS