OTD in 1942, four Nazi spies and saboteurs led by George Dasch disembarked their U-Boat on a Long Island, NY beach. 4 days later, a similar group landed on a Fla. Beach on a mission to create chaos in the US through bombings and sabotage for Nazi Germany. fbi.gov/history/famous… 
The Nazi saboteurs’ objective was to cripple America’s war machinery, primarily by sabotaging industrial manufacturers, hydroelectric power plants and by terrifying the American populace so they'd turn against the war. They were quickly spotted and reported by a Coast Guardsman.
The FBI discovered that the Nazi saboteurs’ buried their explosives, primers, and incendiaries at a Florida beach for an expected two-year sabotage campaign. They had been provided $175,200 ($2.7M today) to finance their ill-fated activities.
OTD in 1942: Found guilty, six of the eight condemned Nazi saboteurs were executed by electric chair in Washington, D.C after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a special military tribunal consisting of seven generals to try the saboteurs.
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