The story notes the German submarine was dispatched to U.S. waters as part of Operation Drumbeat in 1942. The book of the same name, by Michael Gannon, is a good read on that operation. The numbers of German U-Boats in U.S. waters were very small early in the war, but they still wreaked havoc due to a lack of coordinated action by the U.S. Navy.
Used copies of ‘Operation Drumbeat’ are available for a few cents on Amazon and for anyone interested in WWII military history will provide hours of good reading.
Thanks. Requested it from the library.
I was just a kid during WWII but remember that the government closed off the beaches in New Jersey due to all the oil, wreckage and bodies coming ashore.