FORT MILES FACTS

FORT MILES FACTS

1944

Salisbury Daily Times, Friday, January 14, 1944

Lewes, Delaware 4 January 1944

Commander Frank S. Carter, USNR commander of the Lewes Navy unit at the harbor

entrance control post, Fort Miles ever since the post ws established three years ago,

has received his orders of his transfer to Norflok Naval Base.

His replacement will be Lt. Com. J. G. Williamson.

Salisbury Daily Times, Wednesday, January 14, 1944

Lewes , Delaware 14 January 1944

The first contingent of German POW's arrived here yesterday to be stationed at the CCC

camp just outside of Lewes. This action has received less disturbance than did the

proposal to bring the Japanese American labor last year.

Stokley Brother Canning Company at Rehoboth, Russell Hudson, manager, has used POW's

from Ft. duPont last spring to process peas and found they were very good workers.

Salisbury Daily Times, Tuedsday, April 18, 1944

Lewes, Delaware 18 April, 1944

The 10 foot whale that was seen in the canal eight weeks ago has been found in a ditch

in the marsh near Fort Miles. It weighs at lest 800 pounds and a flood tide will be necessary

to remove it.

The wounds which have killed it are believed have been caused by gun shots of

the Fort Miles Navy Unit.

Salisbury Daily Times, Friday, October 20, 1944

Lewes, Delaware 20 October 1945

The Fort Miles firing range at Cape Henlopen kept the locals awake until after 2 am. today.

Beginning at 9:30 pm a new type of gun firing and a ear splitting three minute barrage followed

by streams of light from tracer bullets in the sky over Fort Miles was greater that any 4^th of July

was had and the earth shook for miles around. There were firings every twenty minutes until

the last one at 1:20 am.

An Abstract on July 18 2018 by Harrison H from the Salisbury Daily Times

for www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com and Facebook .