The Beacon On Kill Devil Hill

by Thomas J. Morrow, James H. Martin

In early 1942, some 82 Allied ships carrying vital war materials to England were sunk by German U-boats along the North Carolina coastline known as "The Outer Banks. This story focuses on one particular German U-boat and the interaction of some of its crew and a country sheriff's deputy from Dare County along the Outer Banks. The authors have meticulously researched the operational capacities and intricacies of the Class 7 U-boat, as well as how poorly protected the eastern coast of the United States was from January to August 1942, the time-frame of this story. Kill Devil Hill is the large sand dune on which Orville and Wilbur Wright began their first glider flights at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks

303 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009