OT German U Boats of the coast of Boston WWII

[Bil522]

Had lunch with the neighbors today and the guy is a Pilot boat captain. Said he was a part of a Treasure hunting operation off the coast of Cape Cod for a ship that was sunk by a German U Boat. It was full of hundreds of million/Billion now of jewels and gold and other valuables.

I thought the guy was full of shit. There were no German U boats that came all the way across the Atlantic. So I thought. Did you guys know this. I usually know my history but this is the first I have EVER heard of it.

https://www.bostonharborbeacon.com/2012 ... l%20Harbor.

The US actually only lost 2 ships during Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma.The other 17 ships were damaged but they all returned to action within 7-8 months. So, the Germans only had to sink 3 to make it a true statement.

Did you know that Oregon was actually bombed by a Japanese plane?

https://www.brookings.or.us/291/Fujita- ... 20occurred.

People forget that some of the Japanese subs had airplanes.

Also, there were 27 ships sunk off of the West Coast

http://www.usmm.org/shipsunkdamaged.html

[D-train]

Had lunch with the neighbors today and the guy is a Pilot boat captain. Said he was a part of a Treasure hunting operation off the coast of Cape Cod for a ship that was sunk by a German U Boat. It was full of hundreds of million/Billion now of jewels and gold and other valuables.

I thought the guy was full of shit. There were no German U boats that came all the way across the Atlantic. So I thought. Did you guys know this. I usually know my history but this is the first I have EVER heard of it.

https://www.bostonharborbeacon.com/2012 ... l%20Harbor.

The US actually only lost 2 ships during Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma.The other 17 ships were damaged but they all returned to action within 7-8 months. So, the Germans only had to sink 3 to make it a true statement.

Did you know that Oregon was actually bombed by a Japanese plane?

https://www.brookings.or.us/291/Fujita- ... 20occurred.

People forget that some of the Japanese subs had airplanes.

Also, there were 27 ships sunk off of the West Coast

http://www.usmm.org/shipsunkdamaged.html

I am writing a book on “U-Boats off New England.” So far I’ve documented 73 German submarine, or U-Boat patrols from Montauk to Maine, which attacked and/or sank 34 Allied ships.

[Donn Beach]

During the first three months of 1942, German U-boats sank more than 100 ships off the east coast of North America, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea. Some of those ship losses were within site of land.

As the USAAF and Navy gained experience and better equipment, such as long-range, radar-equipped B-24s, Nazi U-boats withdrew from coastal areas to the safer mid-ocean convoy lanes.

[D-train]

During the first three months of 1942, German U-boats sank more than 100 ships off the east coast of North America, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea. Some of those ship losses were within site of land.

As the USAAF and Navy gained experience and better equipment, such as long-range, radar-equipped B-24s, Nazi U-boats withdrew from coastal areas to the safer mid-ocean convoy lanes.

Talk about History's Mysteries....I wonder what % of Americans know this. Can't be more than 5%.

[D-train]

Reminds me of this. Concentration Camps on British Soil. Inconvenient truths swept under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_ ... occupation.

[Big_Maple]

Reminds me of this. Concentration Camps on British Soil. Inconvenient truths swept under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_ ... occupation.

Interesting. I had never heard about that. Of course they were Nazi camps built by Nazis, but on British soil. And I just Googled the islands on which the camps were built, and they are just off the coast of France in the English Channel. Alberney is about 10 miles off the coast of Normandy, but 20 miles of the coast of Great Britain. Must have an interesting history given that it belongs to England and not France.

It's also worth noting that the Bombardment of Ellwood in California caused mass panic and widespread evacuations - all of which eventually led to the development of Japanese internment camps. 120,000 US citizens were held against their will for no reason other than their ethnic background. There's another inconvenient truth that we speak of rarely.

[Donn Beach]

Puyallup fair grounds was the site of an interment camp

[D-train]

Reminds me of this. Concentration Camps on British Soil. Inconvenient truths swept under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_ ... occupation.

Interesting. I had never heard about that. Of course they were Nazi camps built by Nazis, but on British soil. And I just Googled the islands on which the camps were built, and they are just off the coast of France in the English Channel. Alberney is about 10 miles off the coast of Normandy, but 20 miles of the coast of Great Britain. Must have an interesting history given that it belongs to England and not France.

It's also worth noting that the Bombardment of Ellwood in California caused mass panic and widespread evacuations - all of which eventually led to the development of Japanese internment camps. 120,000 US citizens were held against their will for no reason other than their ethnic background. There's another inconvenient truth that we speak of rarely.

This is how I first heard of it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/forgotten ... 024-04-21/

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Reminds me of this. Concentration Camps on British Soil. Inconvenient truths swept under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_ ... occupation.

Why do you say "inconvenient"?

[D-train]

Reminds me of this. Concentration Camps on British Soil. Inconvenient truths swept under the rug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_ ... occupation.

Why do you say "inconvenient"?

The US and English Governments had no interest in either situation being widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Many of the ships lost during these six months were leaving the Fore River Shipyard in Weymouth. I think this is a less often taught point in American History, as it could have compromised the American psyche and challenged the perception of security through geographic isolation.