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Re: U-boat Sunk Off Tampa Bay, Florida
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: May 27, 2017 12:28PM

None of the details mentioned can be confirmed from original documents.

According to the war diary of USS NEUNZER (DE 150) the ship left New Orleans on 13 October 1943 and headed to Bermuda for her shakedown cruise and training, arriving there on 18 October. They did attack a suspicious sound contact in the evening on 15 October in four attack runs with 72 hedgehog rounds (the half of the 144 carried aboard) and 8 depth charges, but this happened east of Florida in position 27°48N/76°46W. Most likely the inexperienced crew attacked a non-sub target as no U-boat is known to have operated in that area on or around that date.

In my opinion the whole story is bogus.

Best regards
Rainer

Crew member of uboat.net

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U-boat Sunk Off Tampa Bay, Florida jliller 05/27/2017 03:49AM
Re: U-boat Sunk Off Tampa Bay, Florida Rainer 05/27/2017 12:28PM


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