"Torpedo Junction" is not far from where I sit....and the Battle of the Atlantic touched these isolated shores around me.
Four Crewmembers of the HMT Bedforshire are buried in the British Cemetery at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
There are other British Sailors buried at Buxton a bit further north of Ocracoke.
The Cemetery is maintained by members of the US Coast Guard and there is an annual ceremony commemorating those lost in the war offshore here.
My father told me of being able to see three smoke columns from burning Tankers that had been torpedoed by U-Boats.....suggesting just how close in the boats came despite the shallow waters.
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/ocracoke-british-cemetery.htm
https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/missions/battleoftheatlantic2/bedfordshire.html