Q: In addition to attacking shipping, why didn’t German U-boats surface and shell military or civilian targets on shore? James Goodwin Lake Ridge, Va. A: German and Japanese submarines did halfheartedly attack American land targets. Shore bombardments were risky, and the submarines’ light deck guns were intended to sink undefended merchant ships at short range. …
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