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Sinking of USS Cythera by U-402
Posted by: Mike McCarthy ()
Date: April 08, 2001 03:52PM

<HTML>I\'m looking for anyone familiar with the sinking of USS Cythera (PY-26) by U-402 (von Forstner) on May 2, 1942, east of Cape Fear, North Carolina. Cythera was the first US Navy warship sunk by a U-Boat in the Atlantic Frontier after the declaration of war between the U.S. and Germany, and the only known incident where an attacking U-Boat took U.S. Navy sailors (two survivors) onboard during Operation Pauchenschlag and transported them back to France as POWs.
(USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a U-Boat before the formal declaration of war off the coast of New Jersey).

U-402 was subsequently attacked and destroyed with all hands lost by aircraft from USS Card, west of the Azores, on October 13, 1943. I have much information on both incidents and am willing to share with interested parties.

Respectfully,

- Mike McCarthy -

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Sinking of USS Cythera by U-402 Mike McCarthy 04/08/2001 03:52PM
RE: Sinking of USS Cythera by U-402 Marc Haldimann 04/10/2001 01:44PM
RE: U402/USS Cythera Antonio Veiga 04/10/2001 09:39PM


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