While on the west coast Japanese subs were shelling areas on the west coast.
Today, a small patch of land on Ocracoke Island where four English sailors are buried is permanently leased to Britain (Credit: Brian Carlton)
The answer was the building of the Intracostal Waterway.
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There is a book written by Michael Gammon entitled “Operation Drumbeat” which details Germany’s U-Boat attacks on the East Coast shipping at the start of WW II. The US Navy was totally unprepared for the U-Boat attacks.
A great read!
Very interesting.
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These Merchant Marine sailors are not given enough recognition IMO.
They sailed knowing full well that they had a very good chance of never getting to shore.
If their ship was sunk, they were nearly always left behind to die. The convoy never stopped.
Wanna talk about brave men? These were brave men. Without them, the war would have been lost.
Nice article, thanks for the link. (I think though it would have taken more than one ship load to feed Britain for a day - food rationing in Britain didn’t end until 1954!)
I’ve been on the island quite a few times. I didn’t know this. Thanks for the link.
FAKE NEWS.
Other than the mid-Pacific, the ENTIRE WAR was fought in Asia and Europe - nothing close to the US, and no, the Japanese were nowhere near the West Coast - otherwise our internment of the Japanese would have had at least some merit. I don’t who’s making this crap, but when I went to public school, that what they told us, and we all trust the public schools to tell the truth...well, at least enough to send our kids there.
(obviously I’m B.S.’ing, other than the last part)
