![]() ![]() Once out of eyeshot in the fog, his gait quickly sped up into a sprint.Ĭullen burst into the station, awoke his colleagues and pronounced, “There are Germans on the beach!” The Coast Guardsman had indeed encountered four Nazis, but he wasn’t aware that they had just come ashore in a rubber boat laden with explosives, cash and intentions of sabotage. Unarmed and outnumbered, Cullen used his discretion and began to return to the Coast Guard station a half-mile away. ![]() You don’t know what this is all about.” The faux fisherman pulled out a wad of bills from a tobacco pouch lodged in a pocket of his wet pants and said, “Forget about this, and I will give you some money and you can have a good time.”Ĭullen heard one of the men speaking in a foreign language before $260 was shoved in his hands. Perhaps realizing that there was nothing more he could possibly do to arouse suspicion, the ringleader blurted, “Look, I wouldn’t want to kill you. The self-proclaimed fisherman then refused to return to the nearby Coast Guard station with Cullen. ![]() The group’s leader, who gave his name as George John Davis, didn’t seem dressed for the part in his fedora, red zippered sweater and tennis shoes. Mugshots of saboteurs George John Dasch, Geinrich Harm Heinck and Richard Quirin. ![]()
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