Bill Would Put Serial Numbers on Bullets

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There was an "Operation Drumbeat" if I remember correctly in 1942. Supposedly it may have been more devastating than Pearl.

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Originally Posted by Bustem' Down

I believe they were attacking US shipping to England.

Submarine war was an attack on not just shipping to the UK but also the Soviet Union since the U.S. was supplying them with airplanes and other weapons.

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Originally Posted by Triggerfish

Submarine war was an attack on not just shipping to the UK but also the Soviet Union since the U.S. was supplying them with airplanes and other weapons.

Well yeah, of course. Never heard of german troops in the US though. I'll have to look that up.

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I remember something about Germany being in contact with Mexico trying to convince them to invade the Southwest US to draw us out of Europe. I can't remember if that was WWII or The Great War (WWI).

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Originally Posted by Bustem' Down

I remember something about Germany being in contact with Mexico trying to convince them to invade the Southwest US to draw us out of Europe. I can't remember if that was WWII or The Great War (WWI).

That was the Zimmerman telegraph. The Germans offered to give Mexico back what it lost in the Mexican War if it entered WWI on the side of the Germans and attacked the U.S. The U.S. was officially neutral at the time. No U.S. forces in Europe at the time, except for perhaps some "volunteers."

This along with the sinking of the Lusitania were the primary reasons that the U.S. entered WWI.

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Originally Posted by Bustem' Down

Well yeah, of course. Never heard of german troops in the US though. I'll have to look that up.

I believe it was small group dropped off to sabotage various facilities. I grew up in Florida and I remember something about that being taught to us.

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Originally Posted by Triggerfish

That was the Zimmerman telegraph. The Germans offered to give Mexico back what it lost in the Mexican War if it entered WWI on the side of the Germans and attacked the U.S. The U.S. was officially neutral at the time.

This along with the sinking of the Lusitania were the primary reasons that the U.S. entered WWI.

That's right, it was WWI. Probably would have worked too. For a little while at least.

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Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production. On June 17, 1942, a similar group landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, equipped for a similar career of industrial disruption.

For the whole story.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq114-2.htm

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Originally Posted by Triggerfish

Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production. On June 17, 1942, a similar group landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, equipped for a similar career of industrial disruption.

For the whole story.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq114-2.htm

An interesting read!

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On the other hand you know of the Japanese attck on the west coast don't you? A Japanese plane bombed Oregon and also Japan sent balloons armed with bombed that used the currents to travel to the west coast.