Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Twenty Log Cabins

 

Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. Shortly thereafter, Hitler authorized a mission to sabotage the American war effort. The undertaking was named Operation Pastorius, after the man who organized the first German settlement in America. Eight men were recruited; all had formerly lived and worked in the United States. All eight were given three weeks of training in the manufacture and use of explosives. In June 1942, four saboteurs were deposited by U-boat off the coast of Long Island, and four more swam ashore in Florida. Before any sabotage was actually committed, two of the agents turned themselves in to the FBI. They provided information that led to the capture of the other six. In July, a military tribunal was held. All eight were found guilty and sentenced to death. President Roosevelt commuted the sentences of the two who had confessed. The others were executed in August. 

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