| U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight Contributor(s): Bunch, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1467137677 ISBN-13: 9781467137676 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - Naval - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: 940.545 |
| LCCN: 2017934929 |
| Series: Military |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Germany - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. German U-boats sank ships in |
Contributor Bio(s): Bunch, Jim: - Jim Bunch is the leading authority on the U-85, the first German U-boat sunk by a United States warship in World War II. He is the author of Diving the U-85 and U-85: A Shadow in the Sea, a Diver's Reflections. He earned degrees in marine biology (BS) and oceanography (MS) and worked as an oceanographer for the federal government for many years. As a former dive business owner and a NAUI scuba instructor for eighteen years, he equipped and certified hundreds of divers interested in visiting North Carolina's shipwrecks. In 1994, he received the Scuba Schools International Pro 5000 award for making five thousand or more logged open water dives. Bunch is a Road Scholar speaker with the North Carolina Humanities Council, a past chairman of NOAA's Monitor Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council and serves on the board of Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. |