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Update: U-boats off Maine
Posted by:
Tom Desjardin
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Date: August 30, 2001 09:42PM
<HTML>The article listed below details the U.S. Navy\'s change of status for an American boat sunk within site of Portland Head Light (Casco Bay, Maine) in 1945.
[www.portland.com]
The most intriguing portion is the following paragraph.
------Enter Bernard Cavalcante, senior archivist at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., who spent much of his early career in the 1960s studying Germany\'s World War II submarine movements. Cavalcante had long known about the Eagle 56 and, unlike the Navy\'s board of inquiry, had seen long-classified transcripts of decoded German communications clearly showing the presence of a U-boat in the Gulf of Maine throughout April 1945.------
If there was German U-boat activity off the Maine coast that late in the war, there must certainly have been more during the years prior.
Still looking and will report...
Tom</HTML>
[www.portland.com]
The most intriguing portion is the following paragraph.
------Enter Bernard Cavalcante, senior archivist at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C., who spent much of his early career in the 1960s studying Germany\'s World War II submarine movements. Cavalcante had long known about the Eagle 56 and, unlike the Navy\'s board of inquiry, had seen long-classified transcripts of decoded German communications clearly showing the presence of a U-boat in the Gulf of Maine throughout April 1945.------
If there was German U-boat activity off the Maine coast that late in the war, there must certainly have been more during the years prior.
Still looking and will report...
Tom</HTML>
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Update: U-boats off Maine
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