Failed Invasion

The Nazi invasion of the United States started at dark on June 13, 1942. A team of eight Germans had $180,000 in cash, four boxes of explosives and a list of targets that included the hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls and the New York City water system. But after a tense run-in with an unarmed member of the National Coast Guard, the leader of the saboteurs, George Dasch (pictured), turned in the others and claimed he had never intended to carry out the plot.