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.
Author Michael Morgan tells the remarkable story of a Coast at war..
Spotters watched for enemy warships in concrete towers that still line the coast.
Residents of the beachfront communities rallied amid the blackout regulations and air raid drills with rationing and scrap drives.
The dunes along Cape Henlopen hid the massive artillery batteries of Fort Miles.
A center for military activity, Lewes became a refuge for many survivors from such attacks.
It sank in less than an hour.
On February 28, 1942, two German torpedoes hit the destroyer Jacob Jones, which was carrying more than one hundred American sailors.
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
