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  1. A Hero’s Welcome in Normandy…

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published July 1st, 2004 in Cape May • History • World War II

    It isn’t easy coming up with a present for someone whose father is approaching his 80th birthday. But Mark Kulkowitz, proprietor of The Mad Batter Restaurant & The Carroll Villa on Jackson Street, found the perfect gift – a trip to France to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy on June 6th.
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  2. Giving the Past a Future: Naval Air Wildwood

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published March 1st, 2002 in Cape May County • Museums • Restoration • World War II

    A step through the doors of Hangar #1 is a step back in time. Music from the 1940s drifts in the background, and the smell of engine grease fills the air. Aircraft mechanics banter with each other as they tend to a flock of planes and helicopters left behind by generations of innovation. A resident cat, Kittyhawk, laps cream as she waits to fulfill her duty of chasing birds.

  3. Need a Bunker? This One’s Ready to Go!

    Text by Bill Headington | Published September 1st, 2001 in Cape May Point • World War II

    So how much do you know about the old bunker and its vitally important function during the darkest days of World War Two?

  4. Report From Another Era: Nazi Sub Surrenders off Cape May

    Text by Bill Headington | Published September 1st, 2001 in Cape May • World War II

    The German High Command called it “Operation Paukenschlag” or Operation Drumbeat. Not wishing to be outdone by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, on December 11, 1941, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler ordered his most fearsome and silent fighting force to sortie into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North America.