HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
1940 ARMY PRACTICE
BOMBING AT CAPES
At Cape Henlopen the
army has chosen four miles of shore line dunes to drop
practice bombs and
strafing with machine guns targets laid out on the isolated
sand dunes for pilot training. It is known that the Army has
their eyes on all of the 1500 acres of
isolated coastal dunes
of Delaware sea shore .
However, right in the
center of all the isolated dunes sits the Belhaven Surf Club,
once the Lewes coast Guard
Station , which fishermen from Wilmington and Dover
come to spend the
weekends. Steve Pierce is the manager of the clubhouse which
has
bedrooms, a lounge,
recreation rooms and a large dance hall. He knows the Army soon
will take over the
Belhaven and include it in Fort Miles as an Officers Club.
Mr. Pierce smiles a bit
when he contemplates how the government is going to
pay big money to buy back
the outdated Coast Guard Station he bought and moved to
Cape Henlopen as the
Belhaven Surf Club.
Abstract: Saturday,
December 28, 1940, The Times & Democrat newspaper.
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