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RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA)
Posted by: Captain George W. Duffy ()
Date: July 30, 2001 10:37PM

<HTML>Dear Tom:

If you have read my web pages, you know I spent barely six weeks in the United States during all of the United State\'s participationWWII. Upon returning home I was literally assaulted by stories of local (i.e. New England coast) attacks by German submarines. My earlier today e-mail on this site delineates what I have uncovered over the past fifty six years. Not much.

Whatever your relatives saw, whatever the United States Army coast artillery saw,
whatever the coastal residents heard or saw, were figments of their imaginations!
Really!! There was no merchant vessel traffic along the Maine coast. There was nothing to attract a U-boat.

Twenty or thirty years ago, a columnist for a Maine newspaper wrote about pieces of pipe and metal fragments discovered in a small Maine port. Parts of a German submarine! Wow!!

Guess what? The date of the article was April 1. Fools Day!!

I stand on what I wrote a few hours ago.

Cordially.

GWD. </HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Tom 07/29/2001 11:44PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Robin Edwards 07/30/2001 01:12AM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Capt. George W. Duffy 07/30/2001 05:48PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Tom 07/30/2001 07:32PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) walter M 07/30/2001 08:09PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Tom 07/30/2001 08:39PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) walter M 07/30/2001 09:24PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Rich Mickle 07/30/2001 11:21PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Walt 07/31/2001 10:21AM
Bath Iron Works AL Wellman 07/31/2001 06:02PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Captain George W. Duffy 07/30/2001 10:37PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) J.G.Wilson 07/30/2001 11:07PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Capt. George W. Duffy 07/30/2001 11:34PM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Steve 08/01/2001 01:05AM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Chris Lee 08/01/2001 03:19AM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Steve 08/01/2001 09:23AM
RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA) Terry Andrews 08/01/2001 12:44PM


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