![]() The U-boat soon found a British tanker carrying oil back to England. When it found no shipping outside the Narrows of New York harbor, and fearing possible mines, it turned eastward and patrolled our South Shore in the other direction. That U-boat traveled southwest and was soon hugging the South Shore beaches of Long Island, passing Long Beach, the Rockaways, and Coney Island. The following morning, one of them sank a tanker 60 miles from Montauk Point. 13, 1942, Nazi submarines were sighted off Nantucket. even more after the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor just weeks before. Hitler had hoped these attacks would cripple the U.S. from delivering war supplies to their British allies. They were to sink merchant and cargo ships up and down the East Coast to stop the U.S. began with the sailing of four Nazi U-boats to America’s shores. Two weeks later, the first phase of his attack plan on the U.S. Adolf Hitler planned these attacks here on America shortly after Germany declared war on the United States on Dec. These planned terrorist attacks are not from a recent news story about al-Qaida or ISIS, but a true story from World War II, 75 years ago. Bombs were also to be placed on the railroads, at factories and at manufacturing plants. The plan was to bomb New York City bridges, tunnels, and our water supply. ![]()
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