Chesapeake or Sausalito?

Posted by Fall Guy from pool0275.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (216.244.43.20) on Thursday, April 04, 2002 at 11:18pm :

In Reply to: None of those sharks got past the Gibraltar of the Chesapeake! posted by graml from user-2iveuq4.dialup.mindspring.com (165.247.123.68) on Thursday, April 04, 2002 at 9:10pm :

I like the first, you prefer the latter. ;)
Didn't the British nab an Enigma, cipher keys etc. from U-110 in '41?
Stupid U-571 Hollywood fantasy... :p
FG

: Call it hometown pride, or my job at the western hemisphere's largest maritime library, but I'm pretty sure no U-boats snuck past Fortress Monroe or the Navy's nets. But the coast near Hatteras was lousy with Nazi subs in the early days of the Battle of the Atlantic. Four definite kills were made off NC, with a few possibles.
: Okay, I'll get off the soapbox now. ;)
: "Let's be delicious chewy nougat out there."
: -graml
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