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mp_sf_list_0_image: 15792 mp_sf_list_0_title: Fact or Fiction: A U-boat dropped German saboteurs on a Long Island beach where Martha vacationed. mp_sf_list_0_description: FACT:  “Yes, it’s known as Operation Pastorius,” says series co-writer and historian, Linda May Kallestein. “The U-boat surfaced not far from where Martha was staying in Long Island that summer.” In June 1942, two squads of saboteurs—all U.S. residents who returned to Germany to serve the Reich—were dropped by U-boat on beaches in New York and Florida, respectively. They brought explosives and cash and had pla...

I've been reading the book, "The Year of Peril: America in 1942," released in May of 2020. Author Tracy Campbell asserts that newspaper articles and the statements by public officials in that year reveal a nation facing how to deal with divisions among the population in order to wage war. The world map looked bleak in 1942. Germany controlled much of Europe and Japan had quickly taken over strategic ports and nations in the days soon after striking at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. Mr. Campbell notes that about 30% of the U.S. population wanted to make an agreement with Germany rathe...