On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:29:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

One thing is indisputable: The U-boats did track, and sink, merchant
convoys leaving NY harbor for Europe. The press accounts are well
documented and I have met people who grew up on the New Jersey shore
in that era. Finding bodys on the beach was a regular event.


My father was an avid wreck fisherman in the 1960's, and I still have
the book he had which charted the various wrecks off the Jersey shore.
There are more than one or two that were sunk as a result of "enemy
sub" activity. The tanker Varanger is one that comes to mind.

Dave