War Zone WWII Off North Carolina's Outer Banks - (1plus2of2)(2001).txt
WAR ZONE, by North Carolina filmmaker Kevin Duffus, is two 90 minute videos of archival footage and contemporary inerviews showing Outer Banks people and scenes, war action at sea and the personal stories of witnesses and victims of the German U-boat assault along the East coast of the United States in 1942 with its epicenter at Cape Hatteras.
The United States suffered one of its worst defeats of WWII not in Europe or the Pacific but along the nation's eastern seaboard. Three hundred ninety-seven ships were sunk or damaged and nearly 5,000 people were killed. The loss of lives, ships and raw resources represents one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.
For six months, sixty-five German U-boats hunted Allied merchant vessels practically unopposed within view of American coastal communities. The greatest concentration of these attacks occurred off North Carolina's Outer Banks. War Zone is a story of infamy, irony and innocence lost.
Featured in Part One are the heart-rending stories of torpedoed Merchant sailors and young Coast Guard lifesavers unable to come to their rescue. Viewers will marvel at the courage of a young mother who delivered her newborn son in a lifeboat on the storm tossed waves of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Learn how Germany surprised America's defenses despite Britain's warnings.
Part One.
The eastern seaboard holds little of the symbolic power that such moments of WWII such as Pearl Harbor or Iwo Jima contain. Yet, much of the war was fought here and the American casualties neared 5,000. This documentary takes a look at the battles of 1942 that took place here, particularly those off the coast of North Carolina. Tales of incredible courage and heartbreaking tragedy are told about a battle that could have been considerably less devastating had the America heeded the warning the English gave about Germany attacking. Part one of two.
Part Two.
The battles in the eastern seaboard of the United States may not be a part of America's conscious like Pearl Harbor, but these battles were an integral part of the battle between the U.S. and Germany in the second world war. Nearly 5,000 people lost their lives in this sector of the war and much of that bloodshed occurred off the coast of North Carolina. This documentary from North Carolina historian and aficionado, Kevin Duffus, takes a look at North Carolina's role in hosting many of World War II's battles. The second of two volumes.
Video cassette source ripped 14 years ago, so don't expect High Definition :)
(Not my rip)
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07/02/2015
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