An item reported that the German (unless otherwise mentioned submarines) were believed to be positioned as follows: around 4 in the area off the North American coastline north of latitude 37 North (which is the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and west of Longitude 50 North (around 100 miles east of Newfoundland; 2-3 in the Chesapeake Bay-Charleston area-Bermuda, 1-2 near the Bahamas or to the eastward; 1 westward of the Florida Straits; 2-5 (included 2 Italian submarines) in the Caribbean (1 near Aruba, Dutch West Indies, 1 near the Virgin Islands); 2 eastbound well east of Nova Scotia; 3 eastbound well off Bermuda; 3-4 south west of Rockall [islet in the North Atlantic Ocean; 2 off Lisbon, Portugal and finally 2 near Freetown, Sierra Leone. Estimated total 34-40 submarines.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 86 dated 6 March 1942.
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