Doug Kanter wrote:
Two of my childhood neighbors, ancient folks, were part of a volunteer
effort to walk the Long Island beaches at night, nicely armed. Even then,
NYC was a target, I guess.

Nor was it mindless paranoia. There were two incidents of German subs
landing agents on the U.S. East Coast; in one case it was on Long Island
and they supposedly had orders to meet with "German sympathizers" in NYC
(you can meet all types there, I guess), and begin a program of
sabotage. We'd call it "terrorism" nowadays of course.

BTW the German sub sunk in the mouth of the Potomac was an interned
German sub that was used for research by the US Navy after WW2, and sunk
there by them on purpose as an artificial reef. But don't tell JAXAshby
that, he thinks it was sunk there in the war.

Regards
Doug "t'other one" King