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Gr 8 Up—In this very fine production, the narrator states early on that one of its objectives is to remind Americans how close the Nazis came to our shores. During the war, more than 600 ships sank in American waters and 5,000 lives were lost. In 1942, the German U-boat U-166 sank a cargo ship and the passenger ship SS Robert E. Lee in the Gulf of Mexico. In retaliation, Commander Herbert Claudius of the submarine chaser PC-566 dropped depth charges, or underwater explosives, on the attacker, and Claudius claimed a hit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More