From the March 30, 2017, Delaware Inline News-Journal "Wold War II big gun arrives in Lewes" by Molly Murray.
The gun arrived Thursday, March 30. It is like the ones that defended the entrance to the Delaware Bay back in the war. It arrived at Cape Henlopen State Park. Over the next year, volunteers will sandblast and restore it for display at Fort Miles. (Which is turning into quite the World War II museum.)
Guns like this Model M2, 90 mm anti-aircraft were put in to fire on motor torpedo boats, and, of course, German planes.
General George Patton claimed that these guns were second only to the atom bombs as the technology that helped turn the tide of war.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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