Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942
by Hickam, Homer
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Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. 1st edition. As New. 8vo.. dust jacket xvi + 367pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, ÔIn 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-manoeuvred, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at seaÕ
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Homer H. Hickam, Jr., was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of Torpedo Junction , a Military History Book of the Month Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated, he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
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- Title
- Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942
- Author
- Hickam, Homer
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- WW2 Naval;
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