Many students of 20th-century military history know about German U-boat operations off the American coast during World War II. Fewer are aware of U-boat activity reaching North Carolina during the final year of World War I.
Michael Lowrey, a John Locke Foundation analyst and Carolina Journal associate editor who also has earned international recognition as a U-boat expert, discussed for JLF’s Shaftesbury Society the two U-boats that caused damage to ships off the N.C. coast in 1918. In the video clip below, Lowrey details the first ship.
2:55 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 43:13 event.
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