Delaware Military History
Sites and locations of Historical Military Interest
Bellanca Airfield,
New Castle Aircraft manufacturer
Bethany Beach Training Site,
A Delaware National Guard facility
The
Navy at Cape Henlopen
,
A Century of Service, from 1898 to 1996.
Chrysler Tank Plant,
Newark Delaware
Cheney Clow's Fort
Scene of Kent County's only Revolutionary conflict.
Coastal Fire Control Towers of Delaware,
Seaside Monuments to Coastal Defense
Cooch's Bridge Battle Site
,
Delaware's only Revolutionary Battle
Delaware Veteran Memorials
Roads and Tributes
Dover Air Force Bas
e, Delaware's largest active duty facility
Dravo Shipyards,
Wilmington Delaware, WWII
DuPont Powder Mills
at Hagley, Powder manufacturer, War of 1812 to the Great
War
Fort Casimir
, Dutch Colonial Fort near New Castle
Fort Christina,
Swedish Colonial Fort in Wilmington (Later Ft. Altena)
Fort Delaware
,
Delaware River Fortification, Civil War Prison
Fort DuPont
,
Delaware River Fortification, Army Post until WWII
Fort Miles
,
Lewes Delaware, WWII
Fort Saulsbury
Slaughter's Beach Delaware, WWI,WWII
Georgetown Naval Air Station
, Sussex County Airport, WWII
Lewes Bombardment
, War of 1812
Newark Delaware Colonial Military History
,
by Kennard R. Wiggins Jr.
Newark Delaware Railroad Holding Yard
,
World War II Ammo dump
New Castle Air Base,
Home to the Delaware Air National Guard
Pusey and Jones Shipyards
, Wilmington Delaware, Civil War to WWII
Vinyard Shipyard:
Milford Contributes to the war effort
WWII POW Camps
in Delaware
Zwaanendael
Dutch Colony
,
Short-lived colonial fortification