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Commander John Rigge

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Another interesting character from the WW2 generation has sadly crossed the bar. Commander John Rigge, who died aged 94, was a naval officer whose prompt action helped expose the only attempted Nazi sabotage mission on United States soil and also in a separate incident helped prevent the scuttling of a French destroyer. Well worth reading... [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/9427482/Commander-John-Rigge.html[/url] Michael

Just to add a post-script about Operation Pastorius - this was a failed plan for German agents to sabotage economic targets on the United States mainland during WW2. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, in honour of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America. Eight Germans who had all previously lived in America were recruited, trained, and on 12 June 1942, U-202 landed the first four of them on what is today known as Atlantic Avenue Beach on Long Island. The team came ashore wearing military uniforms so that if they were captured they would be classified as prisoners of war rather than spies. Unfortunately for them, their night-time signalling was observed by the wife of Commander John Rigge RN who then woke her husband for him to make sense of what she was seeing (they were guests staying at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel). And having been alerted by Cmdr Rigge, the American authorities were soon able to capture these would-be saboteurs. The other four-member German team landed by U-584 without incident at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, south of Jacksonville on June 16, 1942.

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