Rochester (tanker)

The Rochester was an American oil tanker sunk by a German U-boat in January 1942. Thirty men survived, others were killed. When the rescue boat put to port in Norfolk, Virginia on January 31, it was met by newsreel reporters. One of the Rochester crewmen told a reporter that the sub attacked in broad daylight. As he tried to tell his story further, the reporters had to run away from Naval officers who were coming to confiscate the footage. The reporters got their footage into circulation, and it ran in movie theaters on February 5. The newsreel narrator asked, "And how many U-boats has the Navy sunk? Any at all?"