Nazi U boats landed 'sabatours' on US soil

[SteamWake]

in 1942. First I have heard of this story..

The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1310640/The-New-York-Nazis-U-boats-landed-saboteurs-U-S-coast.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline) states that this surprising information come from a German documentary titled Attack on America - Hitler's 9/11. The documentary shows how Nazis, using their U-boats, successfully landed four saboteurs near Manhattan, the men carried "armfuls of weapons, explosives and primers."

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978515554

[tater]

They did this more than once. The first group was tried by military tribunal and executed even though they did no sabotage. The later group was not executed.

We should have solved the gitmo issue by doing the same long ago.

[Jimbuna]

IIRC there was a film made of this many years ago...black and wide unfortunately.

[bookworm_020]

Like most of Germany's WW2 spy efforts, it was a total failure. :doh:

[TLAM Strike]

They did this more than once. The first group was tried by military tribunal and executed even though they did no sabotage. The later group was not executed.

We should have solved the gitmo issue by doing the same long ago.

I think one guy from the first group wasn't executed. He turned himself in to the FBI.

A lucky Coast Guardsman spotted the first group coming ashore, they bribed him to stay quiet and he pretended to agree. He went back to the barracks and called his superiors. Then as I said one guy didn't want to go through with the mission and turned him self in and helped the FBI capture the others.

All the saboteurs were selected because they had lived and worked in the US before the war.

Also the Germans set up a automated weather station in Canada that wasn't discovered until several decades after the war.

[tater]

Yeah, the one guy testified in return for not getting bumped off.

[bradclark1]

I believe there is a section on this in the book 'Operation Drumbeat'. About the Uboats off our coast.

[TLAM Strike]

Here is the Wikipedia page on the German weather station I mentioned. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt)

[GoldenRivet]

I believe there is a section on this in the book 'Operation Drumbeat'. About the Uboats off our coast.

it receives mention in "Torpedo Junction" by Homer H. Hickam

[TarJak]

IIRC there was a film made of this many years ago...black and wide unfortunately.
http://www.tu-torial.com/images/photoshop/designing/unique_media_player/3.gif
I saw this on youtube the other day. It was very black and quite wide.:O:

[Capt. Morgan]

CBC's The Doc Zone broadcast a very good documentary-The Spies Who Came From the Sea last spring (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/spieswhocame/index.html)

It covered the mission of U-537 to build Weather Station Kurt in Northern Labrador in '43, as well as a spy insertion by U-518 into Quebec in November '42. Their submarine set looked just like it does in SH3;).

The spy was arrested a couple of days after landing, in part because he still stank of diesel from his voyage - even after showering. He also paid for his hotel with a wallet full of currency which had been out of circulation since 1917.:oops:

An earlier German spy simply took all the cash he'd been given to maintain his operation (equal to about a hundred thousand today), and went off to try and spend the war night-clubbing in Montreal.

Alas, I think the show is no longer available for viewing on their site, probably because they're selling it as a DVD (http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=FTSRC00464&Variant_ID=FTSRC00464〈=en-CA (http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=FTSRC00464&Variant_ID=FTSRC00464&lang=en-CA)). CBC does tend to re-broadcast a lot so it may come around again.

P.S. I am in no way affiliated with CBC, etc.

[Rhodes]

http://www.tu-torial.com/images/photoshop/designing/unique_media_player/3.gif
I saw this on youtube the other day. It was very black and quite wide.:O:

Damn, you beat me...

[Jimbuna]

http://www.tu-torial.com/images/photoshop/designing/unique_media_player/3.gif
I saw this on youtube the other day. It was very black and quite wide.:O:

LOL :DL

[Penguin]

Actually two of the 8 spys turned over, the other 6 were fried.
The whole operation was called Unternehmen (Operation) Pastorius. Some infos and pics of their equipment are on the FBI site: http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/nazi/nazi.htm

Very interesting facts about the unmanned weather station, never heard of it before. The last Germans who surrendered were on a (manned) weather station in Spitsbergen, their capitulation was on September the 4th 1945.

[TLAM Strike]

The last Germans who surrendered were on a (manned) weather station in Spitsbergen, their capitulation was on September the 4th 1945.

Wussies... The last Japanese to surrender was an Army Captain named Fumio Nakahira on Mindoro Island (Philippines) he surrendered in April 1980 (http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/list.html). :haha:

:03:

[Jimbuna]

I remember that story....I wonder if he felt stupid when the realisation hit him :DL

[Penguin]

Wussies... The last Japanese to surrender was an Army Captain named Fumio Nakahira on Mindoro Island (Philippines) he surrendered in April 1980 (http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/list.html). :haha:

:03:

Pff, everybody can hold out on an island in a warm climate like the Phillippines!:O:

However according to the definition of the linked site the German soldiers were no hold-outs as they were connected to the European mainland via radio, so they knew the war was over. The allied forces just had other problems than sending a out a ship to some Krauts-on-ice! :88)

[Pioneer]

There are several book on the subject, the best one I have read is a chronological account by Michael Dobbs.

http://www.amazon.com/Saboteurs-Nazi-America-Michael-Dobbs/dp/1400030420/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284685615&sr=1-8

If you decide to buy it, please click the Subsim Amazon link first before selecting the book.