War Shipping and Shipbuilding

Archive Report

Axis efforts to blockade american coasts

Early on the morning of January 14 the tanker Norness, registered under the flag of Panama, was torpedoed and sunk 60 miles southeast of Montauk Point, Long Island, close to the approaches of New York Harbor. In the five months that have elapsed since that initial attack, Axis submarines, ranging from the ...

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