[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Sounds plausible. I can easily picture a gang of German sailors violating the blackout, landing on a Long Island beach, enjoying a kegger, roasting wieners and singing Muss i’ Den until the cops come to put them to bed.

[2banana]

Don’t send in sailors to do the job of Special Forces.

And the Germans had Special Forces in WWII that did some amazing missions...

[therightliveswithus]

Think of all the things we still don’t know

[Buckeye McFrog]

this case set the precedent by the way for enemy combatants to receive trials by military tribunals instead of in civilian court (FDR told the SCOTUS he’d go ahead and do that even if they ruled against him)

[Rio]

Well, they did make a comedy movie much like that:

[mad_as_he$$]

I think this was made into movie.

[Bernard Marx]

This is very, very old "news." I remember the incident, along with another like it in Florida. Most of the participants were executed.

See NAZI SABOTEURS

[jdub]

I saw a documentary about this on tv recently. In that story, the ringleader was a German American who grew up here, and his mom returned with him to Germany. He didn’t have a choice about the mission, and when he voluntarily gave it up, was executed anyway.

[Larry Lucido]

Wow.

[BluH2o]

Germans did not have a great deal of luck when U-boats dropped off spies along the coast of Canada and US. One German spy who went ashore near New Carlisle, Quebec (Gaspe Coast very remote at that time) in 1941 was captured within a couple of days. A local hotel owners son noticed the Canadian currency used by the German agent was dated, older than currency being used in Canada at the time. The clincher was a book of matches used by the spy (everyone smoked in those days) that were from Belgium or Holland. Aside from the fact that every one knows everyone in that area (especially in those days) and this guy just shows up out of nowhere ... and has to take a hotel for a night while waiting for the next train ... is laughable.