There are a number of ships down in the "Pablo Beach" area. Mayport and
Jacksonville were home to anti-submarine aircraft during the war. There are
at least 2 U-boats and 11 cargo ships sunk offshore of Jacksonville that I
know of. Oil is still coming up from them. Once in a while during a storm,
muniions will wash ashore, and the Navy rushes out with their orinance
disposal guys. It is all very exciting for the folks that live in the area.
(My cousen does.)

There is also a termendous hole in the bottom of the river where a 600
pound depth charge fell from an aircraft and expolded on the bottom.

Ponte Vedra Beach (Jacksonville) is site to a clandestine landing by Nazi
spys, seeking to infiltrate Mayport and blow stuff up. A U boat dropped them
off. They were caught by a suspicious bus driver when they tried tp pay the
"exact change" fare with a $100.00 bill. No one had 100 dollar bills during
that period.
--
Capt. Frank

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Perhaps a bit of further explanation, to those who have followed
some of
JAXAshby's posts in the past... recently in another discussion he
claimed that a U-boat had been sunk by the USCG in Long Island Sound
and
was the cause of much unjustified bragging by the USCG, that a
U-boat
had patrolled the Potomac River and was a charted obstruction there,
and
that a Japanese submarine had shelled Seattle and that this last
incident was 'well known.' It turns out that there may be a
smattering
of near-truth in some of this, but my reaction was that this was one
of
Jax's funniest posts in a while.

I vaguely remember seeing reports that a Japanese sub launched some
kind of
balloon carried bomb off the coast of Oregon during WWII. If I recall
correctly
it landed in the forest of southern Oregon, was discovered by hikers
and caused
casualties when they accidentally set it off.

A quick search turned up the following....

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/jbb.htm

http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwfug2.htm

I thought they were launched from a sub but apparently they were
released from
Japan!

-rick-


During WW2, my mother being about 13 yrs old then lived on the upper
east coast of Florida. She remembers going out to the beach to watch
a torpedoed tanker burning not too far away.

A year or so later, my father who had just made Lt in the navy was put
in charge of an armed shrimpboat operating out of Mayport, Fl looking
for subs. He said that if they had ever found one thye would have
been goners cause all they had was a 50 cal. machine gun and a single
depth charge.