From the Dec. 14, 2012, Listverse.
10. Civilian Air Raids
9. OPERATION TEARDROP-- Intelligence was received that a fleet of German U-boats with V-1 Flying Bombs was on its way to the east coast of America. The United States and Canada sent out an anti-sub task force with four aircraft carriers and 42 destroyers.
In one month,this force sank 5 German subs and captured on other one. They lost one destroyer.
Five crew members of the U-546 were brutally interrogated and one officer committed suicide.
It was later found that the fear of the V-1s was unfounded.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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