Author: Naisawald, L. VanLoan,
Title: IN SOME FOREIGN FIELD - Four British Graves and Submarine Warfare on the North Carolina Outer Banks.
Description: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, North Carolina, USA, ND (copyrigh 1997), 3rd revised edn., paperback, [vi], 99pp, half tone photo ills. and map in text, photo-pictorial card wrappers, format about 9 x 6 inches, in 1942 the US Navy was desperately short of anti-submarine escort vessels and many merchant vessels were being lost on the US east coast. From its own meagre fleet Britain sent 24 deep sea trawlers converted for anti-submarine duties to help out, one of which was HMT Bedfordshire. Within a few months she, too, had fallen victim, to what after WW2 transpired to be a German submarine U-558, with the loss of her entire crew some of whom were washed ashore on the Outer Banks off North Carolina. This is the story of Bedfordshire's brief visit to USA, of the friends made by some of her crew, of the strange coincidence of those friends being in a position to identify the bodies and of the respects paid to them by the citizens of Ocracoke as they lie at rest in the British Cemetary there, appendices include details of the fate of German U-boat, a complete Bedfordshire crew list, updated and expanded from the first edition without the Order of Service but with additional images and details of the discovery and identification of the wreck, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
Keywords: war ww2 rnps a/s atlantic battle us east coast u-boat u-558 submarine hmt bedfordshire north carolina outer banks ocracoke morehead city
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Title: IN SOME FOREIGN FIELD - Four British Graves and Submarine Warfare on the North Carolina Outer Banks.
Description: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, North Carolina, USA, ND (copyrigh 1997), 3rd revised edn., paperback, [vi], 99pp, half tone photo ills. and map in text, photo-pictorial card wrappers, format about 9 x 6 inches, in 1942 the US Navy was desperately short of anti-submarine escort vessels and many merchant vessels were being lost on the US east coast. From its own meagre fleet Britain sent 24 deep sea trawlers converted for anti-submarine duties to help out, one of which was HMT Bedfordshire. Within a few months she, too, had fallen victim, to what after WW2 transpired to be a German submarine U-558, with the loss of her entire crew some of whom were washed ashore on the Outer Banks off North Carolina. This is the story of Bedfordshire's brief visit to USA, of the friends made by some of her crew, of the strange coincidence of those friends being in a position to identify the bodies and of the respects paid to them by the citizens of Ocracoke as they lie at rest in the British Cemetary there, appendices include details of the fate of German U-boat, a complete Bedfordshire crew list, updated and expanded from the first edition without the Order of Service but with additional images and details of the discovery and identification of the wreck, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
Keywords: war ww2 rnps a/s atlantic battle us east coast u-boat u-558 submarine hmt bedfordshire north carolina outer banks ocracoke morehead city
Price: GBP 15.00 = appr. US$ 21.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 42418
- Book number: 42418
See more books from our catalog: WW2 - Navy - RN Patrol Service, Mines and Minesweeping