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>
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>