Today in World War II History—June 20, 1942

German saboteur George Dasch, who turned himself and his fellow saboteurs in to the FBI, 25 June 1942 (US Army photo)

80 Years Ago—June 20, 1942: Japanese submarine I-26 shells Estevan Point Lighthouse and a radio-direction-finding station on Vancouver Island, BC, no damage; first enemy shelling of Canada since the War of 1812.

Four Polish prisoners escape from Auschwitz concentration camp disguised as SS guards in an SS car; this leads to tattooing of prisoners a month later.

The New York Times publishes a report by the World Jewish Congress that the Germans had killed 1 million in a “vast slaughterhouse for the Jews.”

In New York City, the FBI captures three of the German saboteurs landed by U-boats a week earlier.

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