Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] mystery detectives

[Juergen Guerrero Kommritz <groplias2@yahoo.com>]

Hello William

German submarines were also patroling the caribbean and were very famous among the smuglers because they paid well and in gold for fruits, rum (very important) and other stuff they needed for their long trips far away from home.  But some of them were lost, at least one was sunk in the south caribbean.

Best wishes

Juergen

William Alford <walford@dbtech.net> wrote:

> Don't know if listmembers are aware of USA PBS TV show "mystery detectives"
> which airs locally on Monday nights 8:00 PM. It's had several sub shows
> recently and tonight's was about a Uboat sunk off the coast of Maine in 1945.
> The props from this sub were recoved by a mysterious treasure hunter and the
> question of their origin was the mystery solved by this episode. I didn't know
> the amazing extent of uboat action off the east coast during ww2. Apparently
> much of it was kept secret to prevent public alarm and some info only recently
> declassified such as that covered by this segment. The navy even denied that
> one of its ship was attacked by this particular uboat, claiming instead that it
> sank because of a boiler explosion. This show said over 400 ships were sunk off
> eastern coast by uboats which cruised along the coastline and that one reason
> for the
>  secrecy was to conceal an intercepted plan by Germany to use uboats to
> haul sea-launchable V2s to attack the interior of Manhattan. Apparently that
> plan was more imagination than substance. Great show.
>
> William Alford
>
>
>
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