Bibliograph

World War II and the Delaware Coast

Type

Label

World War II and the Delaware Coast

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

World War II and the Delaware Coast

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary

Within weeks of Pearl Harbor, German U-boats arrived off the Delaware coast and attacked numerous ships along the vital shipping lanes to Philadelphia and Wilmington. On February 28, 1942, two German torpedoes hit the destroyer Jacob Jones, which was carrying more than one hundred American sailors. It sank in less than an hour. A center for military activity, Lewes became a refuge for many survivors from such attacks. The dunes along Cape Henlopen hid the massive 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 still line the coast. Author Michael Morgan tells the remarkable story of a coast at war

Target audience

adult

Classification