JOE BILBY'S NEWEST BOOK- A HISTORY OF SUBMARINE WARFARE ALONG THE JERSEY SHORE

JOSEPH G. BILBY AGAIN VISITED US TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST BOOK- A HISTORY OF SUBMARINE WARFARE ALONG THE JERSEY SHORE.  AS ALWAYS, HE GIVES MUCH INSIGHT ON NJ HISTORY ALONG WITH HIS HISTORIC COLLECTION OF PICTURES FROM THE PERIOD.  HIS LATEST BOOK IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON EITHER IN THE PAPERBACK VERSION OR THE KINDLE EDITION.  JOE HAS DEGREES IN HISTORY FROM SETON HALL UNIVERSITY AND SERVED AS A LIEUTENANT IN THE FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION IN VIETNAM.  HE IS ASSISTANT CURATOR OF THE NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD AND MILITIA MUSEUM IN SEA GIRT AND PUBLICATIONS EDITOR FOR THE NEW JERSEY CIVIL WAR HERITAGE ASSOCIATION.  US HISTORY OF SUBMARINES GOES BACK TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WHERE IN THE SUMMER OF 1776, A SUB CALLED THE TURTLE UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO DRILL A HOL IN A BRITISH SHIP IN NY HARBOR.  DURING WWI (1918), THE GERMAN U-151 SUBMARINE SUNK MULTIPLE SHIPS OFF THE NJ COAST AND LAID MINES NEAR CAPE MAY.  DURING WWII (1942), THE OIL TANKER R.P. RESOR ON IT WAY FROM BAYTOWN, TX TO FALL RIVER, MA WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF OF BARNEGAT LIGHT. THE ONLY TWO SURVIVORS WERE TAKEN TO THE MANASQUAN COAST GUARD STATION.  THE NORWEGIAN TANKER NORNESS SUNK OFF OF MONTAUK POINT, THE BRITISH TANKER COIMBRA WAS SUNK 100 MILES FROM SANDY HOOK, THE VARANGER WAS SUNK TWENTY-EIGHT MILES FROM BRIGATINE WITH THE EXPLOSION HEARD IN ATLANTIC CITY AND THE GULFTRADE WAS HIT THREE MILES OFF OF BARNEGATE INLET.  IN LATE SUMMER OF 1942, THE U-BOAT ACTIVITY ALONG THE NEW JERSEY COAST DECREASED DUE TO INCREASED DEFENSIVE MEASURES TO INCLUDE CONVOYS, MORE BOATS ON PATROL AND BETTER RADAR AND SONAR  DETECTION.