One of the most unusual relationships that existed between an American ship and German U-boats through the early days of World War Ⅱ was that which surrounded the SS LIBERATOR. Somehow she had become a ship whose years of solid unspectacular service were interrupted briefly by occasional bizarre episodes of contacts with U-boats, resulting in the spinning of a complex and tangled web of circumstances involving undersea warfare. The strange story culminated shortly after the traditionally ominous Ides of March in 1942. The setting was the infamous Torpedo Junction, that stretch of the East Coast between Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout in North Carolina along which large numbers of ships were sunk by German submarines in the opening months of American involvement in World War Ⅱ, a period known as the happy time among the U-boat crews.
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