Silent Sentinels
During World War II, the Army used observation towers to protect Delaware Bay from enemy attacks.![Fire control tower #1, Fenwick Island, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0003.jpg?itok=QNujC8rT)
Fire control tower #1, Fenwick Island, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0005.jpg?itok=jogE7svo)
Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0006.jpg?itok=AjwOdDAJ)
Fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![An emergency medivac helicopter lands in front of fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0008.jpg?itok=RJGdGmns)
An emergency medivac helicopter lands in front of fire control towers #3 (foreground) and #4, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![Fire control tower #3, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0009.jpg?itok=bo1XFYdc)
Fire control tower #3, Dewey Beach, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![Ronald Kyle fishes in the shadows of Fire Control Towers #5 and #6 (l to r), North Rehoboth, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0011.jpg?itok=YNG4EuTy)
Ronald Kyle fishes in the shadows of Fire Control Towers #5 and #6 (l to r), North Rehoboth, DE. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![A visitor points out of one of the slits of Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. Tower 7 is the only one open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0015.jpg?itok=R8NRE2TV)
A visitor points out of one of the slits of Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. Tower 7 is the only one open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![View looking up from inside Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. The only tower open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0018.jpg?itok=x6BTjL5w)
View looking up from inside Fire Control Tower #7, Cape Henlopen, DE. The only tower open to the public. Photo by Amy C. Elliott
![Battery 219 (Herring) at Fort Miles, Cape Henlopen, DE. It was supported by Fire Control Towers #2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14. Photo by Amy C. Elliott](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/3600/2011-11-17/093011__DelawareTowers_0023.jpg?itok=ftpxnVFp)
Battery 219 (Herring) at Fort Miles, Cape Henlopen, DE. It was supported by Fire Control Towers #2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14. Photo by Amy C. Elliott