U-505 Captured On The Great Lakes

[Stearmen]

Not really! I found this great sight with a lot of fun U Boat myths, amazing what people will believe. On a side note, I new a lady that lived in northern California during the war, she 100% believed that Japanese American fishermen, were going out in their fishing boats and refueling Japanese submarines! I tried to explain that you measure submarine fuel by the ton not the gallon, and it would take a giant fleet of small boats to do so, and it was diesel fuel, which wasn't redly available during the war, she just said "I saw the flashing lights every night." Still, this sight is worth a good laugh! http://www.uboat.net/special/myths/

 

[Dudleydoright]

You can't beat a good conspiracy. It appeals to our untrusting of Government nature.

There's a similar one about a so-called German large-scale raid on the East coast of England which was nothing of the sort. But the belief still persists.

Dave

 

[p51]

These myths will never go away. I grew up near the northern Gulf Coast of Florida and there was quite a bit of activity in that area. I know for sure that the U67 sank the tanker “Empire Mica” off the coast of Panama City in 1942. The old timers who lived in the area during the war SWEAR that at least one U-boat crew came ashore and went shopping. For obvious reasons I seriously doubt that happened but several folks in Florida would swear on a stack of bibles it happened. I’ve met more than one that said they saw them walking around towns in their uniforms.

 

[Stearmen]

U-boat Shopping

These myths will never go away. I grew up near the northern Gulf Coast of Florida and there was quite a bit of activity in that area. I know for sure that the U67 sank the tanker “Empire Mica” off the coast of Panama City in 1942. The old timers who lived in the area during the war SWEAR that at least one U-boat crew came ashore and went shopping. For obvious reasons I seriously doubt that happened but several folks in Florida would swear on a stack of bibles it happened. I’ve met more than one that said they saw them walking around towns in their uniforms.

You must have missed that myth on the sight I posted! It is a fun read, on all the U-boat related myths, like sailing up the Colorado, to blow up Hoover damn!

 

[Story]

These myths will never go away. I grew up near the northern Gulf Coast of Florida and there was quite a bit of activity in that area. I know for sure that the U67 sank the tanker “Empire Mica” off the coast of Panama City in 1942. The old timers who lived in the area during the war SWEAR that at least one U-boat crew came ashore and went shopping. For obvious reasons I seriously doubt that happened but several folks in Florida would swear on a stack of bibles it happened. I’ve met more than one that said they saw them walking around towns in their uniforms.

[video=youtube;qOZuLD1u_K4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZuLD1u_K4[/video]

 

[James007]

There was Two German Spies dropped of In the Gaspe Quebec not far from my home town By a German U boat, The first one was quickly picked up buy the R.C.M.P. His mistake was he went into a bar/hotel and ordered a Beer in German! oops!! The bar made took his order and then went to call the Mountie's.
He of course gave up his buddy who was picked up in Ontario!

 

[Atticus Finch]

Interesting. I grew up in Beaufort, N.C. which was arguably ground zero for the Battle of the Atlantic. In my childhood, I recall hearing stories about a local, wealthy woman who was generally suspected of aiding the U-boat crews during the war. She was a pilot and owned a seaplane. Local folks said that she would frequently depart alone from her private airfield outside Beaufort and fly straight off shore. She would reappear later in the day but would never say where she had been or what she had been doing. People began to fill in the gaps with their imaginations.

Of course, if the military had ever seriously believed that she was contacting the enemy, she would have been easy enough to follow. By 1942, there were hundreds of antisubmarine aircraft and boats patrolling the east coast at any given time. It would have been darned difficult to land a seaplane in broad daylight near a surfaced U-boat without being noticed. Still, people love to believe in monsters and conspirators and she was an easy target. She was wealthy, middle-aged, had never married….and was a female pilot.

She was still very active in the community when I was a child in the late ‘fifties and early ‘sixties. I’m not sure when she died, but she always lived her life under a shadow because of the rumors about her being a Nazi collaborator.

AF

Post Edit: Well darn. One can never know what can be found by a simple google search. Please scroll down to the Yeatman biography.

http://trianglemodernisthouses.com/ncwomen.htm

 

[James007]

heres what i found on the Gaspe spy, What i have herd over the years i Guess has changed from this account!
http://gaspesie.quebecheritageweb.com/article_details.aspx?articleId=324

Cheers