Nazi Saboteurs USA - Three Missions Landed By U-Boat!

The absolute shittiness of J. Edgar Hoover knows no bounds.

Moral of the story: Don't trust Hoover. Dudes one of the biggest gangsters to ever live.

One of my father's first posts after boot camp (1942) was guarding the train tunnels at Donner Pass in Truckee, California. He was told they were worried about sabotage of the tunnels shutting down the railroads. He said guarding the tunnels on Donner Pass in snowstorms was not pleasant work, but much better than being in North Africa or the Philippines!

Nobody...no YT channel puts out content so interesting, thorough and accurate as Mark.

@Mark - The Frenchman Bay landing was on Hancock Point, a few miles inland from Bar Harbor, ME. I still can't believe a UBoat came that far up Frenchman Bay! On that night in November 1944 29yr old Mary Forni was coming home from playing cards with friends around 11pm. It was snowing lightly when she turned down Hancock Pt Rd and noticed two men in trench coats walking towards her headlights.... fast forward to Sept 2003 and I "intruded" on Mary's privacy in her driveway on Hancock Pt Rd on a late summer afternoon. She offered to tell me the whole story if I would carry some of her groceries into her house which I gladly did. She not only told me her story buy also showed me the place where the spies landed with the rubber boat. GREAT STUFF, thanks Mark!!!

My dad was with 101st Yankee division. Before they went south to train his company guarded the beaches in Maine. While on duty he was approached by a couple telling my dad they worked for the Red Cross. they asked him about how many troops and positions there were so they could bring coffee to the unit. He went back to the O.D. ran the names with the Red Cross and found that couple didn't work for them. A platoon was sent out but couldn't find them.

lesson number one, never trust the FBI

Moral of this story: Don't trust the FB I to stick to their deals. Just don't trust the F BI at all.

On 12 May 1942, Lieutenant Alfred Langbein was landed @ St. Martin's, New Brunswick, Canada from U-213. He surrendered to Canadian authorities in 1944 when he ran out of funds. He spent the remainder of the war as a POW & eventually returned to Germany. On 9 November 1942, Lieutenant Werner von Janowski was landed @ New Carlisle, Gaspe, Province of Quebec, Canada from U-518. He was captured by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police & ended the war as a POW. His Kreigsmarine uniform, personal effects & transmitter are on display at the Canadian War Museum @ Ottawa. Since Canada has long been a part of North America these landings should be included in this discussion. - Courtesy of George Kush, UE, CD, Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.

I work for Norfolk Southern and go around Horseshoe Curve several times a week. I never thought I'd see it mentioned in a Mark Felton video!

Mark Felton videos are priceless

Hoover and his FBI takes the credit, when they knew and did nothing. That tradition lives on today.

Dr Felton: there was very interesting event in Wilmington NC during WW2 when a U Boat bombed an Ethyl Dow plant. An area south of Wilmington is known for the Confederate States’ last blockade and led to the Battle of Fort Fisher. But there was certainly German U Boats who bombed a munitions plant that disrupted the war effort. Would LOVE a proper story on that event

According to family lore my great uncle who was a ww1 veteran, stopped two Nazis saboteurs from entering a power plant in western Pennsylvania in 1943. He was a hired security team member who encountered these spies breaching a perimeter fence line, ordered them to halt, when they did not comply they were shot. Such goes the story and while I can’t confirm its validity it was a part of my childhood memories.

"come on guys, let's turn ourselves in. What's the worst that could happen.?" ( electric chair spawns ) ".................."

Ah the legendary Horseshoe Curve. It was one of the main thoroughfares of the Pennsy and a major freight route to New York City. During the war the Pennsy and other railroads moved huge oil trains coast to coast, to avoid the Uboat danger at sea. As well the Pennsy moved thousands of soldiers in military trains from points west

FYI, the name King of Prussia is a German American town founded in the US Revolutionary war near historic Valley Forge. Two hundred years on it was the location of the shopping plaza shown (picture circa 1968). Today it is the 2nd largest shopping mall in the US by square footage and the largest by number of stores. I wish I knew about this guy in the 1970's as K of P, as called by locals was my teenage hang out.

My Dad's father, who I never knew, worked in WWII supplying wood to the POW camp located in Wakulla County, Florida. Dad, as a youngster then, sometimes accompanied him, and saw the German POWs. A few of those Germans remained here after war, becoming naturalized citizens and marrying local girls.

Noteworthy that these plots failed not due to effective American counter espionage, but poor personell choices on the German side. The performance of the Abwehr seems a bit lacklustre at times.

Have you read Bruno Friesen’s book “Panzer Gunner”? Friesen was a Canadian born German whose parents elected to immigrate to Germany (the family was from a German enclave in Russia). He was a young teenager at the time. Before he completed his apprenticeship as an electrician he was conscripted into to Wehrmacht and because of his electrical training assigned to the Panzer Corps ending up as a gunner on a Jgdpz IV. He elected to return to Canada, but it took several years. After retirement he became a docent at a museum that had a Jgdpz IV. How many had similar fates from families that decided to immigrate to Germany during that period?