As soon as the German submarines appeared in the Strait between Key West and the Cuban Capital, the "invisibles" had the task of "persuading" the writer to finish his counter-intelligence activities and engage in the quixotic enterprise of pursuing Germans on board his yacht Pilar.
For this purpose, Hemingway initiates a strict antisubmarine training, with weapons given to him by the secret service of United States Navy; and the Crook Factory became immediately Operation Friendless.
For this new challenge, the novelist recruits a select group of friends, ready to stay at sea for months, in a mission extremely reckless: to locate a submarine on the surface, draw it toward the match, and with machine guns and grenades submit its crew, before proceeding to occupy the documentation that surely they brought, so as to contribute in this way to the anti-German counter-offensive that was being spread in the most varied seas of the world.
As in all wears, the events would not wait. In the night of March 12, 1942, very near to Romano, the Germans destroyed two merchant chips:the tanker Texán and the cargo ship Olga. They were sunk between Lobo Lighthouse and Key Confites. Both ships confidently navigated, when they were attacked at the zone known as "the narrowness". There, by night, it is possible to observe the clearness of both lighthouses from one and the other sides of the Channel, at a distance of scarcely twelve miles.
Enrique Circules in The Unknown Hemingway
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