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Re: Uboat in New York?
Posted by: Captain George W. Duffy ()
Date: December 31, 2001 07:20PM

<HTML>Sounds like Hollywood to me. Years ago, they produced a movie titled, I believe, "The Mouse That Roared". The story line involved a band of Norwegians, or were they from Iceland Gummi? Anyway, seeing how well the United States was treating its defeated enemy Germany, these people wanted to get in on the booty so they declared war on the United States and sent a long boat to attack New York City.

The day these invaders sailed into New York harbor and landed in lower Manhattan, a great air raid drill was being held and the city was "shut down". No trams, no trains, no taxis, not even any people on the streets. They thought the Americans had abandoned the city and that they had won the "war" by mistake and there would be no "Marshall Plan" for them.

A U-boat entering New York in the midst of WWII and its crew going ashore is just about as far fetched.

GWD</HTML>

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Uboat in New York? Les Hubert 12/31/2001 05:33PM
Re: Uboat in New York? Captain George W. Duffy 12/31/2001 07:20PM
Peter Sellers Nathan Greenfield 12/31/2001 07:39PM
Re: Uboat in New York? J.T. McDaniel 12/31/2001 11:35PM
Re: Uboat in New York? Joe 01/01/2002 05:52PM
Re: Uboat in New York? Les Hubert 01/03/2002 11:57AM
Re: Uboat in New York? Jeff McBride 01/04/2002 01:40AM
Re: Uboat in New York? Jack 01/03/2002 01:57PM


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