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World War II and the Delaware Coast (Military)

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Within weeks of Pearl Harbor, German U-boats arrived off the Delaware coast and attacked a large number of ships along the essential shipping lanes to Philadelphia and Wilmington. On February 28, 1942, two German torpedoes hit the destroyer Jacob Jones, which was once carrying multiple hundred American sailors. It sank in not up to an hour. A center for military activity, Lewes was a refuge for plenty of survivors from such attacks. The dunes along Cape Henlopen hid the huge artillery batteries of Fort Miles. Residents of the beachfront communities rallied amid the blackout regulations and air raid drills with rationing and scrap drives. Spotters watched for enemy warships in concrete towers that also line the coast. Creator Michael Morgan tells the remarkable story of a coast at war.

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