On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:58:53 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:53:51 -0500, DSK wrote:

Were they on the coast? The Japanese that were interred were the
coastal
residents.


IIRC the Americans... yes, native born Americans of Japanese descent...
interned during WW2 were not only from the West Coast.

Doug Kanter wrote:
Well...let's see...plenty of Germans lived in NYC, NJ and Long Island.
German subs got as close as a few miles off the coast of NJ & LI.


Heck yeah, there was a German sub sunk at the mouth of the Potomac River!


There is one sunk off of Newport which was a scuttle after being
attacked on the surface by the CG and another out by The Dump that is
a confirmed Uboat, but they don't have the documentation on it.

Is that the one the private divers discovered and researched? Show on PBS
one time about it.

Yes - they can't figure out which U boat it is. It could be one of
seven different boats.

It has also entered the Hitler lore as a possible treasure ship, much
like U-853 off Block Island.

Later,

Tom