The American public outside the families of the Merchant Marine were ignorant of the catastrophe that was playing out all along the U.S. coast in the first six months after the U.S. declared war on Germany. Six-hundred ships—many of them ferrying supplies to besieged Britain—were sunk. Those months …
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