Hemingway and the Hooligan Navy on Patrol: With U-boats sinking dozens of ships each month, Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters.

The article reports that Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters, with U-boats sinking dozens of ships on the U.S. civilian response to the Nazi U-boat threat appeared in American Heritage. Topics include chasing enemy U-boats, with at least the tepid cooperation of the military, from which Hemingway had wangled; and distant ship that the writer tracking through his binoculars outlines of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter around Havana Harbor.