Helmuth sommer biography of abraham lincoln

When Abraham Sommer was born on 4 September , in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States, his father, Abraham Sommer, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Lehman, was He married Caroline Moser on 18 April , in Wayne, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years and Glendale Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in He died on 7 August , in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of

By Dave Kindy

Clary Edwards was rousted from bed at 5 a.m. by the sound of loud pounding. Wearing only shorts, he opened the front door of his home in New London, Connecticut, to find the unwelcome view of the Shore Patrol. “These two guys are telling me to get dressed because there’s a U-boat cornered off Block Island,” recalled Edwards, who was a Navy diver serving aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Penguin (ASR). “Well, I thought these guys were nuts. The war is over.”

Indeed, on May 6, , it certainly seemed like World War II in Europe was at an end. Hitler was dead, Berlin had been captured, and the once-vaunted Nazi military machine was all but finished. Just the day before, Hitler’s successor Adm. Karl Dönitz had sent an emissary to Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to negotiate Germany’s surrender.

However, rogue submarines lurking in the North Atlantic during the last weeks of the crumbling Third Reich, would deliver a final, fatal blow. On May 5, an American collier headed to Boston was sunk by a torpedo fired by a German submarine. Now, ships of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard were locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the U-boat just a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island. With the

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