U-166 - Gulf of Mexico 1942

In the summer of 1942, Americans believed the Gulf waters were safe. They were wrongThe warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico became an unexpected underwater World War II battlefield. A deadly German U-boat, U-166, prowls the shipping lanes near New Orleans, Mobile, and the Texas coast, sinking merchant ships and spreading terror just miles from America's shores. When the passenger freighter SS Robert E. Lee, filled with refugees and civilians fleeing earlier U-boat attacks, came under fire, a lone U.S. Navy patrol craft raced to defend her. What followed was a dramatic naval battle in the Gulf - and a mystery that remained hidden beneath the waves for more than 60 years. Based on the true story of the only German U-boat ever sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, award winning Author Tom McAuliffe creates U-166-Gulf of Mexico 1942 a gripping semi-fictional tale of courage, tragedy, and survival unfolding beneath the waves during World War Two. Tom McAuliffe is an award winning Author living on Florida's Emerald Coast. He's a former Photojournalist with the US Navy's Combat Camera Group and a graduate of the DOD's Mass Communications program at Syracuse University as well as a magazine Editor and Writer with more than 25 years of by- lines.