“The navy sent a hunter-killer group for U-869 but they never got her, never even spotted her—we’d know it if they had. U-boats didn’t get away from hunter-killer groups in 1945, John. This Neuerburg must have been some commander.” For a moment there was silence on the line. “We didn’t find U-857 at all,” Kohler finally said. “We found U-869.” “We found U-869,” Chatterton said. “It was U-869 all along.”
