Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II by Gannon Michael

Author:Gannon, Michael [Gannon, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062039064
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

In Hardegen’s shooting report the diagram depicting the relative courses of the two vessels, U-boat and target, shows that the torpedo hit on the target’s port side. The accompanying narrative repeats the data in the KTB except to say that the vessel went under in thirty-five seconds(!). There is no mention of survivors in either account. What “ghost” ship this was that was sunk by the “ghost” U-boat is a mystery. Could Hardegen have been mistaken in claiming the sinking? He had been mistaken once before, in the case of Aurania. But that sinking he had not witnessed. This one he did, as also did IWO Hoffmann, who cosigned the shooting report. No notice of a missing ship in the geographical vicinity or of a ship’s failure to make a port of destination in this general time period is on file in the pertinent archives. Is there a wreck at that position, CA 5756, which corresponds to map coordinates 37-50N, 74-10W? The Wreck Information List compiled by the U.S. Hydrographie Office in 1945 contains no unidentified wreck at that or nearby coordinates.14

Another ghost ship stood just over the horizon.

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