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U-boats off the Outer Banks : shadows in the moonlight / Jim Bunch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bunch, Jim W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--North Carolina--Outer Banks.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Atlantic Ocean.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German.
- Submarines (Ships)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Submarines (Ships).
- Submarines (Ships)--North Carolina--Outer Banks--History.
- Outer Banks (N.C.)--History, Naval--20th century.
- Outer Banks (N.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439661734
- 1439661731
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