Yes, I am a card carrying member of Shark Hunters and the Naval Submarine
League.

DSK wrote:
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