Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II by Michael Gannon
1991 | ISBN: 0060920882, 0060161558 | English | 528 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
1991 | ISBN: 0060920882, 0060161558 | English | 528 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
In the first eight months of 1942, German submarines sank nearly 400 Allied freighters and tankers along the U.S. Atlantic coast with a loss of more than 5,000 merchant seamen and sailors–twice the number of fatalities at Pearl Harbor. This book helps readers understand the complexities of the long Battle of the Atlantic by examining those disastrous early days of war and following the U-boats into action.
The book traces the voyages of five U-boats to their destinations as they sink twenty-five ships unmolested by the U.S. Navy, which failed to follow through on British intelligence warnings. It also provides a compilation of personal stories from crewmen and officers of U-123 and from the Allied sailors and merchant seamen cast adrift in lifeboats by the U-boat's torpedoes.