A Century of Service: The U.S. Navy on Cape Henlopen; Lewes, Delaware, 1898-1996. 
 

Read Reviews

here___


To Buy the Book

go to:

www.CedarTreeBooks.com

 

Or attend one of the

presentations/book-

signings listed at the 

bottom of the page. 



1. Early Naval

Communications

Stations____.

 

2. WW I: Naval Section

 Base____


3. WW II:Harbor Entrance

Control Post (HECP)

and Captain of the Port

 (COTP)____.

 

4. Cold War: Naval  

Tropospheric-Scatter 

Radio Station____.

 

5. Cold War:Navy Sound

Surveillance System 

(SOSUS) Naval Facility

 (NavFac) ____

 

6. Cold War:Terminal

 Building of NavFac___


7. Harbor Defense 

Units____


7.Reserves____




 

 

Presentations/book-signings.

2020


April 2: "American Naval

Ships Named Delaware."

Old State House, Dover, DE


May 8: American Naval 

Ships Named Delaware."

Lewes Historical Society,

Lewes DE


Oct. 17: "Life of an American

Boy in Lewes , DE during

the American Revolution."

Hale-Byrnes House, 

Newark, DE.
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The U.S. Navy maintained installations on Cape Henlopen continuously from 1898 until 1996. 


To get the full story, READ THE BOOK


A Century of Service: the U.S. Navy on Cape Henlopen, Lewes Delaware, 1898-1996.


Available here_____


To access pictures and narrative of the individual installations, click on the ____ following the installation names below.

To see a news article about the Delaware Division of Parks and

Recreation unveiling a marker in front of the Biden Environmental

Conference Center commemorating these Navy sites, go here____.

To read about "Submarines at the Cape: Friend and Foe", go here____.


To see pictures of the USS Missouri Gun now at Cape Henlopen State Park, go here____.



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