DD730 wrote:
Yes, he crossed the sound, before heading for Delaware. For a good read:

Gannon, Michael: Operation Drumbeat; Harper & Row

Thanks for the reference. Have you seen
http://www.uboat.net/
this is a great web site


From Jan 14 to June 28, 1942, 43 tankers were sunk off the U.S. Eastern
Seaboard , by U-boats. In 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico, 99 tankers were sunk
by U-boats.

In total, from Dec 1941 through August 1942, (8 months) German U-Boats
carried out 184 patrols in American waters, sinking 609 ships (3,122,456
tons).

The U-boat campaing nearly won both World Wars... in fact it seems the
German strategic planners really handicapped themselves by not building
more U-boats in the build-up to WW2... maybe they overestimated how
effective they'd be? IIRC for most of the war the Kriegsmarin only had
10 U-boats at sea at any given time, and never more than 20.

Regards
Doug King