From Wikipedia Ships Sunk Off North Carolina.
The submarine war off the coast continued in May 1942.
May 2: USS Clythera, patrol boat torpedoed by U-402.
May 4: SS Byron D. Benson, tanker, torpedoed by U-552
May 8: U-352, sunk by depth charges from the USCGC Icarus.
May 11: HMT Bedfordshire, anti-submarine trawler on loan from U.K., torpedoed bu U-588 off Ocracoke Island.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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