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RE: U-boats and Maine Coast (USA)
Posted by:
Rich Mickle
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Date: July 30, 2001 11:21PM
<HTML>Walter,
I assume you were joking, but I don\'t believe Italian submarines ever sailed that far north. At least by the end of 1940, the Italian patrol areas were to the south
of the main German patrol areas. They even made some of the first patrols into the Carribean areas and off of Brazil. The subs did not receive these assigned areas until late 1940, so it may well be that Italian subs patrolled off Newfoundland and perhaps Maine before then, but since the incident described supposedly occured in 42, I doubt it was Italian.
Any thoughts on it being a French sub? I read somewhere they may have had a couple of subs based at one of those two islands in the North Atlantic they own (I always forget the names)?....ah, you\'re probably right, probably wasn\'t French either.
V/R,
Rich
walter M wrote:
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Dear Tom,
an U-boat is an expensive piece of hardware, she could not take such a chance. In 1943 any U.S. American was a patriot that would have fought against that German vessel with stones and clubs: they were regarded as the rattlesnakes of the Ocean, not as interesting pieces of engineering. If a submarine was spotted, most likely she was an US boat on training patrol. I could even conceed she was an Italian one that was temporary unsure of her position and this could explain the crew\\\'s funny aptitude.
Greetings
walter M
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I assume you were joking, but I don\'t believe Italian submarines ever sailed that far north. At least by the end of 1940, the Italian patrol areas were to the south
of the main German patrol areas. They even made some of the first patrols into the Carribean areas and off of Brazil. The subs did not receive these assigned areas until late 1940, so it may well be that Italian subs patrolled off Newfoundland and perhaps Maine before then, but since the incident described supposedly occured in 42, I doubt it was Italian.
Any thoughts on it being a French sub? I read somewhere they may have had a couple of subs based at one of those two islands in the North Atlantic they own (I always forget the names)?....ah, you\'re probably right, probably wasn\'t French either.
V/R,
Rich
walter M wrote:
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Dear Tom,
an U-boat is an expensive piece of hardware, she could not take such a chance. In 1943 any U.S. American was a patriot that would have fought against that German vessel with stones and clubs: they were regarded as the rattlesnakes of the Ocean, not as interesting pieces of engineering. If a submarine was spotted, most likely she was an US boat on training patrol. I could even conceed she was an Italian one that was temporary unsure of her position and this could explain the crew\\\'s funny aptitude.
Greetings
walter M
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