Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] mystery detectives

[Erik Muller <emuller@naic.edu>]

Ooooh,
Any boots sunk in the north Caribbean??
EM.


Juergen Guerrero Kommritz wrote:

> 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
>     fo! r 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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