Название: The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Автор: Ed Offley
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465029612
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion.