“Richie, we just got an unbelievable letter from Coppock. He dropped an atomic bomb. You won’t believe it—” “Slow down!” Kohler said. “What’s it say?” “It says this: U-869, Horenburg’s boat, the one all the history books say was sunk off Gibraltar, was originally ordered to New York. And not just to New York, but just south of New York, right to our wreck site! It says that headquarters later changed those orders to Gibraltar. But get this, Richie, and I quote: ‘It is certainly possible that Control’s signal ordering U-869 to the Gibraltar area was not received by the boat.’”
