Hitler s Master Plan: Did Nazi U-Boats Plot Against the U.S. East Cost in 1945?
In March 1945, the Allies intercepted a message from German Admiral Godt dispatching seven long-range submarines to “attack targets in American coastal zone.”
Here s What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy responded with overwhelming force to the German threat.
In the closing weeks of World War II in Europe, American intelligence determined that a detachment of German submarines had been dispatched to launch a cruise missile attack on the East Coast of the United States. The U.S. Navy deployed forty-six ships and dozens of aircraft to annihilate the incoming submarine wolf pack. The battle that followed saw hundreds of lives lost at sea, and showed American intelligence services at their very best