Flashpoint in: Florida

By Colleen L. Perrault and Charles E. Perrault

From 1941 to 1943 the German submarine force was sinking Allied convoys bound for Europe at an alarming rate. The U.S. Navy chose Captain Jonathon Fletcher, from the Office of Naval Intelligence, to halt this slaughter. Fletcher would head the Joint Forces Special Missions (JFSM) team. With new technology, able to pinpoint radio transmissions from one point to another, the JFSM team was able to determine someone signaling intelligence data from the shore in Alabama to a submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. They were providing intelligence about convoys leaving American southern ports. The would then sail to a location off of the coast of Mexico and re-transmit the data to to a German-occupied island in the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean. Thee Germans would then relay the information to the German 'Wolfpacks' in the South Atlantic Ocean, who would lie in wait to sink the convoys. Fletcher and his team devised a plan to destroy the radio stations on the islands. They succeeded in destroying all of the radio stations and submarines in the Gulf and Caribbean, except the U-boat 3009. This sub managed to escape their trap and head to a small town on the west coast of Florida. The Germans captured the entire population of 'Craigsville' and force the people to help repair the damaged submarine. However, the towns people rose up and forced the Nazis to leave their town, before the repairs were completed. The town was the ONLY town on the U.S. mainland ever captured by German military personnel during World War II

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1085929779
• ISBN13: 9781085929776
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"