The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Battle of Atlantic Off NC Coast, April 1942

Another four ships were sunk before April ended. And, there was an eight day lapse before the last one. Possibly because the U-boats had returned to base to resupply? //// April 20th-- CHENANGO, freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-84, 31 killed. //// April 20th-- AGRA, freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-654, 6 killed. //// April 21st-- BRIS, freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-201, 5 killed. //// April 29th-- ASHKHABAD, tanker, torpedoed and sunk by U-402. //// That amounts to 27 Allied ships sunk during April 1942, just off the coast of North Carolina. //// The War At Our Front Door. --GreGen

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