by Douglas O. Linder (2019)

The German submarine maneuvered along the Long Island shoreline. Shortly after midnight, on June 13, 1942, six men got into a rubber boat. Two crew members began paddling toward the beach, their task made more difficult by the four boxes of explosives and other equipment carried along with them. Waves nearly capsized the boat, but they made their landing. While two men used an attached rope to guide the rubber boat back toward the sub, the four members of the sabotage team changed from their military uniforms into civilian garb.

Four days later, a similar scene unfolded at Ponte Vedra, near Jacksonville, Florida. A second four-member German sabotage team made a beach landing, changed into civilian clothes, and buried boxes of explosives. This team walked along the beach for hours before catching a bus that took them into Jacksonville....Continued