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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1945,
PAGE THREE
7CIST11AZI SUB PRISDilERS CAPTURED
OFF CAROLINA COAST; NAVY REPORT SAYS
' CHARLESTON, S. C Rear Admi
ral Jules James, USN, disclosed to
day that Navy ships, planes arid
. .blimps investigated at least 157 re
'"ported probable contacts with Ger
'; Aian submariner off the coasts of
Carolina, Georgia, and the St. Johns
' River, Fla., during the Battle of the
' Atlantic.
Admiral James, commandant of the
': Sixth Naval District and of the
i Charleston Navy Yard, had directed
anti-submarine activities of the com
1 ' fcined American and British forces
: from the U. S. Naval Base at Ber
':... muda, prior to being ordered to
., Charleston, from where he directed
.anti-submarine activities off the coasts
' of the Sixth Naval District under the
1 .Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier.
; I The first German U-boat prison
ers captured in East Coast waters
iwere landed in Charleston after the
Coast Guard Cutter Icarus sank a
Nazi sub off the Carolina coast.
At least sixteen ships were hit by
torpedoes in the waters off the
Sixth Naval District coasts during
f the Battle of the Atlantic but so well
had anti-submarine patrols been or
ganized by May, 1942, that only three
(."ships were torpedoed off the Caro
(linas and Georgia after that month.
AA ship was lost in June, 1943, an-
Other in July, 1943, and the last was
torpedoed on Sept. 12, 1944.
i'" The story of submarine warfare
i 5 along the Sixth Naval District coast
5iis one of which the Navy can be
j proud. It also is a story of coopera-
At the outbreak of war, few
; fighting ships were available to es-
ort cargo carrying vessels. The
,Navy took over the tough little fish
Ing boats, outfitted them with ma
. chine guns and depth charges and
Xput them off the coast on subma
? line patrol.
These fishing boats, and pleasure
craft, hastily placed in Naval ser
vice, earned the nickname of the
"shrimp fleet." They took the rough
vtind cold weather, tossing about on
.the choppy seas to radio any sus-
a:..:.. i rrL i
wuuub acuvuy at sea. i neir snip
3$, young reserves with no prev
ia fftus experience, didn't hesitate to
Charges might conceiveably blow
attack when the occasion demand
cdy'.'even though their own depth
tHeir own ship up. (They didn't.)
Other fishing boats not taken over
were organized to furnish informa
tion. Rapidly the Navy installed guns
and armed guard crews on cargo
Vcarrying vessels. They materially aid-
ea in me war against ine sumnanne,
and many are the tales of heroism
which are told of the armed guard
officers and crew.
In the early days when their ves-
BaId marik kainilr ciinlr unliAcitafalir
louio v . i Dunn) uiuicoitavci ji
Vhey returned to sea on another ship.
Armed guardsmen were the last to
leave a torpedoed ship, firing rounds
at the submarine as long as they
Could.
In these early days, British ships
were helping convoy along the east
coast and the Royal Air Force joined
with the Army and Civil Air Patrol
planes in patrolling the ship lanes
on anti-sub patrol. Then, the Navy
brought the blimps into action and
its own Navy planes, as they became
available.
The most spectacular sub battle in
the Sixth Naval District coastal
waters was that in which the Ica-
trus sank the U-boat and captured 33
members of her crew, including her
captain.
The sub was detected by sound de
vices, and though the undersea craft
was much larger than the Icarus, the
butter blew the sub to the surface
with depth charges.
A portion of the submarine, includ
ng the conning tower, came to the
Surface for four minutes, just long
then dropped to the bottom, taking
with her the 12 remaining members
pf the crew.
The prisoners were the first Nazis
o be taken by an American ship in
Re sub warfare along the Atlantic
oast.
A a f Via onK st a wi a ts-k 4-V- omann
(he cutter's crew opened fire, attack
ing the U-boat with her three inch
deck gun and two machine guns.
They ceased firing on surrender of
the Nazis.
The prisoners were taken from the
water and quartered on the cutter
under guard until they c o u Id be
brought to port in Charleston. One
of the prisoners, who suffered in
juries from the gun fire as he was
leaving the conning tower, died
aboard the American vessel.
The cutter carried a crew of 49
men and every man conducted him
self with marked alertness, enthus
iasm and coolness during the en
tire action, according to Lieutenant
Maurice D. Jester, of Staten Island,
New York, skipper of the cutter.
Several minutes after the sub was
detected by the cutter, she fired a
torpedo at the American ship. The
torpedo exploded prematurely, how
ever, about two hundred yards off
the stern of the ship. It was at
this instance that the cutter began
dropping depth charges, all of which
damaged the U-boat and the 11th
of which blasted her to the surface.
Each Nazi was equipped with a
life jacket and was taken aboard
the cutter within less than an hour
after the sub sank. There were no
casualties or injuries among the;
American crew, nor any damage to
the cutter during the entire encount
er. The cutter was 300 yards from
the U-boat when the underseas craft
sank.
The discipline of the captured
Nazis was good and their manner
courteous, lgarus crew members re
ported. The Nazis were bearded and
looked as though they had been at
sea for some time. They spoke only in
German, although several of them
understood English and other lang
uages. They talked freely about per
sonal affairs.
The skipper of the 165-foot Ica
rus was awarded the Navy Cross for
this action.
One of the 33 German prisoners
taken in this battle off the North
Carolina coast was mortally wound
ed and was buried in Charleston. On
occasion, his shipmates have sent
flowers for his grave through the
International Red Cross from their
New Mexico prisoner of war camp.
April, 1943, was the high mark in
the reported submarine incidents in
this district's coastal waters, when
35 reported "contacts" were investi
gated. Not all reported contacts proved
to be submarines, however, Some
"submarines" seen underwater turn
ed out like this:
A plane made a depth charge at
tack off the Savannah Lightship in
April, 1943. The pilot let his cans go
at a swirl which appeared like a
submarine submerging. His report to
base said: "Result whale meat."
Busiest spot in the district for sub
marine patrol was Charleston. A re
ported 65 contacts were investigat
ed. Another 26 were reported and
investigated off Jacksonville, with
an additional 15 off Fernandina.
Twenty-two were reported off Cape
Fear, 16 off Savannah Lightship and
14 off St. Simons.
Quite often investigation proved
that the "contacts" were sunken
ships, schools of fish, or other ships
which civilian observation posts on
land had reported as probably sub
marines'. The same wrecks and same
shoals prompted U-boat warnings re
peatedly. Still other reports were
probably of submarines.
Depth charge attacks by ships,
blimps and planes were made.
Only one submarine was positive
ly sunk in the waters off Georgia
or the Carolinas. That was the one
the Icarus got. No U-boat was cap
tured and brought to port. Rumors
that had subs operating in conjunc
tion with confederates ashore, which
were frequent during the height of
the ship sinkings in 1942, were strict
ly rumors and nothing more. Kach
was investigated.
Only two of the many ships which
were routed by the Port Director's
office failed to make their first port
of call. One of these was sunk in an
accidental meeting with a home
bound submarine.
During the war, the Port Director's
Office, Charleston, has routed ships
directly to all major ports in Eu
rope, Africa and North America
from Newfoundland to Capetown. Be
fore a route was decided upon, care
ful study was made of submarine
activities and known locations by a
special section which the Port Di
rector maintained to keep this infor
mation up to date.
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