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“Okay And you two?”

“We’ve got so to do,” Remi replied “This bottle was aboard the UM-34, left there by Manfred Boehm We find out where the UM-34 and Boehm started, we find out where the bottle came from”

They worked on Boehht, Reht help the to retrace the UM-34’s course backward fro place

“Here,” Re the diary “This is e’ve been looking for: Wolfgang Müller Listen to this entry: ‘August 3, 1944: For the first tiether tomorrow I pray God we succeed and prove worthy of our commands’ ”

“Brothers in arms,” Sam repeated, “and the smarine—Boehm the captain of the UM-34, Müller the captain ofwhat? Gertrude, perhaps? Boehm’s mother ship?”

“Perhaps” Remi picked up her cell phone and called down to the workshop “Sel for us? We need anything you can dig up on a World War II Kriegs Müller In suht have coht, thanks”

True to her reputation, Selma called back thirty minutes later Remi put her on speakerphone

“Found hi version?”

“Short for now,” Sam re

plied

“Fregattenkapitän Wolfgang Müller, born 1910 in Munich Joined the Kriegsmarine in 1934 Standard proned to captain the auxiliary ship Lothringen Home port was listed as Bre to Gerinally laid down as a French ferry named Londres The Germans captured it in 1940 and converted it into a ned for ‘special duty’ in July of 1944, but there was no mention of the particulars”

“A mine layer?” Remi said “Why would they—”

“By that ti and they knew it—everyone but Hitler, that was,” Selma said “They were desperate The kinds of auxiliary ships they would have normally used to transport the UM-34 had either been sunk or converted into troop escorts

“I also found a website entitled Survivors of the Lothringen, along with a fair nuen was attacked and disabled during a storinia Beach”

“About fifty miles south of Pocomoke Sound,” Remi said