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Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942 (Bluejacket Books)
Homer Hickam
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Description for Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942 (Bluejacket Books)
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 42ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBTM; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area ""Torpedo Junction."" And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-manoeuvred, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war.
In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and ... Read more
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area ""Torpedo Junction."" And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-manoeuvred, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war.
In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781557503626
SKU
V9781557503626
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam (also known as Homer H. Hickam, Jr.) has been a coal miner, Vietnam combat veteran, scuba instructor, NASA engineer, and now a best-selling author.Show Less
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