Hitler's Raketen U-Boote (Rocket Submarines), the True Story of the Steinhoff Brothers and the Nazi's First Submarine Launched Missiles

During the final days of German belligerence in World War II a little known chapter in naval history took place just off the American Northeast Coast. In response to the perceived threat of a U-boat launched missile attack against New York City, the U.S. Navy mobilized one of the most comprehensive anti-submarine operations of the war. For nearly six decades the story of the final patrol of the German U-boat U-873, and the mysterious death of her commander, Kapitanleutnant Friedrich Steinhoff, have been little more than a footnote in naval history. The memory of those events, however, and American concerns for national security, will forever remain as a prophetic vision of the terrorist attacks that wreaked havoc across the United States on September 11, 2001.