New News About Old Stuff.
1. WWII HANGAR DEMOLISHED-- June 6th Reading (Pa) Eagle-- Hangar 501 at Reading Regional Airport, built to help train pilots during WW II has been torn down. It was 14,000 square feet and its concrete pad will be removed and replaced with topsoil and grass.
2. WW II BOMB IN LONDON-- BBC News reports that a one ton unexploded bomb was found near the site being developed for the 2012 Olympics and military engineers were called to defuse it. Evidently, it was what they called a controlled explosion. From September 21, 1940 to July 5, 1941 an average of 84 bombs failed to explode. Some were designed not to detonate upon impact, but at a later time. Now, that's just downright mean.
Since 1955, there have been no recorded detonations in Britain. Wonder who dropped the bomb?
3. MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BARNS-- The June 6th Northwest Herald reports that the first "quilted barn" in McHenry County's art/barn preservation project is up at Miles and Anne Chaney Owney's farm in Woodstock. Their quilt design is called "Crown of Thorns."
The whole project combines public art, barn preservation, and agritourism, a pretty good combination if you ask me.
WW II TROLLEY TOURS IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY--The Cape May County Herald shows that interest in World War II activity in Cape May has increased and that a tour is being scheduled to Fort Miles, Battery 223, Fire Control Tower 23, as well as a drive by of Cape May Naval Air Station and Cape May Canal. Cost is $15.
I know Wilmington, NC, is developing an excellent tour of its WW II sites. I did some further research on Cape May and found out lots of interesting stuff which I will report on later.
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