Monday, May 13, 2013

Delaware’s World War II Lookouts


Fear and concern during the Second World War prompted the United States to take action to secure the eastern seaboard. These two towers, located in the Delaware Seashore State Park, are vestiges of that concern. Built between 1940 and 1942, these sentinels sought to protect the United States from enemy vessels or foreign invasion. A total of eleven towers were built (eight in Delaware and three in New Jersey). More recently the towers served as fire lookouts

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