My mother's family owned a cottage right on the oceanfront on Carolina Beach's Southern Extension. She said that at night there were constantly military patrols going up and down the beach looking for U-boats.
You also were not allowed to have wet clothes on. U-boats lurking offshore would surface and send people ashore on reconnaissance missions. They'd get wet in the process.
The story continues that one time a German U-boat was sunk and one of the crew members was found to have a movie ticket to a Wilmington theater dated just a few days earlier.
Also, they were extremely strict on the blackout at the beach. Lights onshore would silhouette Allied merchant ships plying the offshore waters, making them easy targets for a torpedo.
--GreGen
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.
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