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A number of towers were build along the Delaware coastline during World War II. The towers were used as artillery spotting locations. Our military was posted in each of the towers in order to spot enemy ships sailing off our coast.
There were two huge guns located in what is now the Cape Henlopen State Park. One of the guns had a 17" wide barrel and could shoot a shell about 25 miles. The "spotters" used a telephone to advise the artillery gunners as they targeted enemy ships.
German submarines patrolled the East Coast and sunk an average of one US ship per week, including our US Navy destroyer, Jacob Jones, just off the Delaware coast. Over one hundred of our sailors were killed in that shipwreck.