Operation Pastorius

Operation Pastorius


Operation Pastorius
Part of the American Theater of World War II

A United States Army Signal Corps photo taken during third day of the trial for the captured German saboteurs, July 1942.
Objective Sabotage American economic infrastructure
Date June 1942
Executed by Nazi Germany
Outcome Failed
American Theater
  • Battle of the Atlantic
  • Battle of the River Plate
  • Machita Incident
  • Angler POW escape
  • US Home Front
  • Battle of the Caribbean
  • Torpedo Alley
  • Bombardment of Ellwood
  • Battle of Los Angeles
  • Battle of the St. Lawrence
  • Operation Pastorius
  • Bombardment of Estevan Point Lighthouse
  • Bombardment of Fort Stevens
  • Lordsburg Killings
  • Lookout Air Raids
  • Battle of Bowmanville
  • Escape from Fort Stanton
  • Operation Kiebitz
  • Port Chicago disaster
  • Fort Lawton Riot
  • Fire balloon attacks
  • Operation Elster
  • Great Papago Escape
  • Santa Fe Riot
  • Battle of Point Judith
  • Midnight Massacre

Operation Pastorius was a failed German plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America.

Read more about Operation Pastorius:  Agents, Mission, Arrest and Trial

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