On this day, Aug. 8, in 1942, six convicted Nazi saboteurs who’d landed in the U.S. were executed in the District during World War II.
In May 1942, two teams of spies landed on the shores of Long Island, N.Y., and Florida, and split up to destroy key war facilities in the United States.
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