Oh sure lady, we just ran around interring people for no reason. Besides charting the US and Canadian coastline and military installations for the Japanese, here’s a history lesson:
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-attacks-on-u-s-soil-during-world-war-ii
To BluePlum.. Nice summary of Japanese attacks on MAINLAND US, not including the Aleutian campaigns/Alaska.
Re the German saboteur George Dasch, who turned himself in to the FBI in NY City, here’s something you probably won’t find in most history books.
Dasch, after landing near NY City, decided he wanted to turn himself in, so he found a phonebooth and called the FBI office.
The rookie FBI agent who took that midnight call was William “Bill” Furcolow (his brother was also an FBI agent).
Bill, thinking that this was a trick being played on him as a rookie, by some fellow agents, almost hung up on Dasch.
But, as he told me/our class at No. Va. Community College (in Police Science which he taught), his training kicked in and he put Dasch on hold.
Then he went downstairs to talk to his superior SAC who had gone there for a late dinner while Bill tookover the office.
His superior came up and took the call, and the rest is history.
Now, just to tease you late night Freepers, one of my other friends (and Board of Advisors to a newsletter I was Associate Editor of), was Ray Wannell, a former Assistant Director of the FBI for Counter-Intelligence. He ran the “SOLO” operation for decades until it was finally released to the public in another one of our luncheon group’s members, John Barron of Reader’s Digest.
John had been working on Operation SOLO for 10 years before the FBI allowed it to be released because a leftist professor David Garrow had stumbled upon its’ existence when he was research his trilogy on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, (The FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. volume).
The Bureau decided to beat Garrow to the publishing punch and John’s book, “Operation SOLO: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin”, was published in 1996 by Regnery Publishing, Inc. Wash. D.C.
And the rest is history.
If I told you who the rest of our luncheon group was, I’d have to kill you. Actually I have over the years in my comments and I’m finding more of that group’s members in my old files. Half of our WW2 Navy commanders were there including Adm. Dan Galley (captured the German Sub 505), OSS (Ed Hunter “Brainwashing in Red China”), CIA, FBI, congressional internal security investigators, WW2 pilots, a National Chinese general and aide to Gen. Lansdale in Vietnam (Bernie Yoh, “SACO”), professors (Dobriansky, Rice, Moser, Michaels, etc.), a leader of the Free Polish Army during WW2, Stefan Korbonski, RCAF - Dave Martin, Jim Kerns, 5th Special Forces/VN, Major Nick Rowe (SF, POW, “5 Years to Freedom”, Amb. Elbridge “Durbie” Durbrow, etc. and that was just at my table.
You should have seen who was at the desert table!
A luncheon a month with the makers of history. For a graduate student it was heaven in the flesh.
OTOH, one of the German invasions in this article did involve 8 naturalized US citizens.