U Boats Off The Outer Banks
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U Boats off the Outer Banks Shadows in the Moonlight
Author | : Jim Bunch |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781467137676 |
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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. 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. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. 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.
U Boats off the Outer Banks
Author | : Jim Bunch |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439661734 |
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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.
Taffy of Torpedo Junction
Author | : Nell Wise Wechter |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781469601366 |
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Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. For readers of all ages, the book brings to life the dramatic wartime events on the Outer Banks, where German U-boats turned an area around Cape Hatteras into 'Torpedo Junction' by sinking more than sixty American vessels in just a six-month period in 1942. Taffy has been enjoyed by young and old alike since it was first published in 1957.
Torpedo Junction
Author | : Homer H Hickam |
Publsiher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1996-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612515786 |
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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-maneuvered, 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 rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
The Burning Shore
Author | : Ed Offley |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780465080694 |
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The untold story of two men—an American pilot and a German U-boat commander—whose clash off the coast of North Carolina brought the horrors of World War II to American shores
Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks
Author | : James D. Charlet |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493035892 |
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More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama, and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous coastline and shifting underwater sandbars spells disaster for even the most seasoned sailor. These are the stories of daring rescues, tragic failures, enduring mysteries, buried treasure, and fascinating legends.
The Keeper s Son
Author | : Homer H. Hickam |
Publsiher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1417691336 |
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Separating himself from his family of lighthouse keepers in order to work for the Coast Guard, World War II Outer Banks resident Josh Thurlow searches for his brother, lost at sea twenty years earlier, in the wake of invading U-boats.