1942 Nazi U-Boats Reach New York!!!

The Second Happy Time (codenamed Operation Paukenschlag or Operation Drumbeat), also known among German submarine commanders as the American shooting season, was the informal name for a phase in the Second Battle of the Atlantic during which Axis submarines attacked merchant shipping along the east coast of North America. The first “Happy time“ was in 1940/41. It lasted from January 1942 to about August of that year. German s
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