"otnmbrd" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"otnmbrd" wrote in message
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Wasn't the Oregon fire started by a balloon bomb?




And a Japanese sub sunk a tanker off San Simeon. Ship is still in
tack.
Local guy was the engineer on the ship, no lives lost.
Bill

Believe there was just recently a story on this in either the Star or
L.A. Times

otn

And for the East Coast folks there is a book by Homer Hickam "Torpedo
Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942" that I read last
summer. It details the slaughter of ships off the east coast,
especially along the outer banks by German Uboats. Really good reading.
I had no idea that many ships were torpedoed right off the coast. There
are two small cemataries, one near Cape Hateras and the other on
Okrakoke for some of the British who were killed helping defend us.

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