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The failed Nazi plot to bomb a Pennsylvania railroad

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Posted By: Calvinesq, 3/14/2024 7:11:07 AM

In a plot fit for an Indiana Jones film, Nazi U-boats once ferried saboteurs to the United States, dropping them off in rubber dinghies along the East Coast under cover of darkness. Their mission was dubbed “Operation Pastorius” and targets included factories, plants, and rail lines — namely Altoona’s famous “Horseshoe Curve,” a railroad engineering marvel built in 1854 vital to the U.S. shipments of steel, medicine, rations, and even troops. The saboteurs, who landed in Long Island and Jacksonville, Fla., had also set their sights on Newark’s Penn Station and a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: smak90 3/14/2024 7:31:59 AM (No. 1677287)
Today they could just fly to Mexico, walk across the border, then catch a free flight to Pennsylvania with no ID required. Ain't America great?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: privateer 3/14/2024 8:48:10 AM (No. 1677359)
FTA: '...100 people were taken into custody during the raids in Altoona and other cities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for hearings before the “Enemy Alien Boards.” The majority of those rounded up, The Inquirer reported, were Germans.' We could use 'Enemy Alien Boards' right now. And those rounded up would be amazingly low on Germans.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: PChristopher 3/14/2024 9:08:30 AM (No. 1677377)
These days, Nazi saboteurs are unnecessary when we've got Democrats doing their job from the inside.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 3/14/2024 9:13:22 AM (No. 1677381)
I have seen actual proof; there is a U-Boat sunk 120 feet down off Morehead City, NC. and it's in relatively good condition after having the conning tower blown off by our Coast Guard.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 3/14/2024 9:14:12 AM (No. 1677382)
Oh, dear - if Joe gets wind of this, he'll start interjecting himself into the story as the person who single-handedly stopped them. True story, no joke. And shhhhh....we don't let pesky details like him being a toddler at the time get in the way of another heroic tale of Joey, American Bada*s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: formerNYer 3/14/2024 10:46:41 AM (No. 1677448)
FTA: Two of the eight saboteurs, according to Frederick, got cold feet and may not have been true believers in Hitler. One of them, George John Dasch, allegedly called the FBI to report the plot. “They didn’t believe him,” Frederick said. Even then the FBI was stupid,
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 3/14/2024 11:21:19 AM (No. 1677473)
We need to treat criminal illegal aliens just the way we treated these Nazi saboteurs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mc squared 3/14/2024 12:30:53 PM (No. 1677576)
There are hundreds of ships off our east coast sunk by U-boats delivering food and goods to England before Dec 7th. After the war, German sailors told of sitting a couple of miles off shore watching the lights, and picking off ships.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 3/14/2024 12:45:19 PM (No. 1677601)
Re #8, relatively quickly all the coastal cities were blacked out at night, but my 8th grade history teacher (imagine, they actually taught history then) told the class, on the second story of an old brick school house in Jacksonville Beach, Florida......"Right out there, you can see it from here, the German submarines torpedoed ships. As a little girl, I saw them explode and burn. Right out there." And we were about a half a mile from the beach itself, and could easily see the ocean and imagine the mayhem wrought "right out there" just 21 years earlier. We gave these German invaders, because they weren't in uniform, quick military tribunals and executed them. This is EXACTLY what we need for the violent cartel invaders of today. Short, swift military tribunal, and quick execution.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Hazymac 3/14/2024 12:47:35 PM (No. 1677603)
Re #9: Perfect last paragraph.
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