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In the book "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor, the German forces attack Willemstad, a city in the Caribbean island of Curacao, during World War II. The attack leads to the evacuation of the island's residents, including the main characters, Phillip and Timothy.
They didn't like the people and thought they could hold them captive so the ones they're against would give up.(Wrong)^The Top answer is wrong. The German's attacked Curacao to stop them from supplying the allied forces with oil, and then give the oil to there own forces instead.
Feb 16, 1942-Dönitz orders all available U-boats in the Atlantic to attack British and American shipping off the US eastern seaboard. German U-boats, with their deck guns, bombard oil storage facilities and refineries on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao in the southern Caribbean.
They will attack anywhere
not long
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the Germans used uboats and kept torpedoing cargo ships so the inhabitants didn't get the supplies they needed
No, but the German me boat did.
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Blitzkrieg.