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Are there any circumstances under which a German WWII submarine might slip in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, sail down to Baltimore, torpedo a ship or two in the harbor, and still escape? My thought is that an especially daring raider might try it, traveling on the surface at night through the canal and down to Baltimore. After Baltimore, I think the channel is 60 feet or more and this might enable it to submerge and escape down the bay.

It wouldn't be easy, esp getting past Aberdeen Proving Ground in wartime, and even harder escaping down the bay with Norfolk at the mouth. Also a bit silly, considering how easy it was to pick ships off the Atlantic Coast, but it might be seen as a terror thing, like bombing Berlin, besides, you know what madcaps German sub commanders were.

Could a sub slip into the numerous side rivers in the daytime, sneaking down submerged at night? One peculiarity of the Eastern Shore is that it is a sedimentary deposit and thus has no rocks in its rivers to look out for.

Maybe have the commander an expatriate, raised in the Bay and knowing it intimately.
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