Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Parking, etc. – Free parking with shuttle buses to Fort Miles will be available at Cape Henlopen High School because the main beach parking area at Cape Henlopen State Park is being repaved. At Fort Miles, golf carts will run continual trips to FMM’s main entrance.

Schedule:

10 a.m. – Event begins with World War II re-enactors on site. Vehicles will include an M-4 Sherman Tank. Additional WWII and Cold War vehicles and equipment will be on display. Fort Miles Museum (Battery 519) opens for self-guided tours ($5 per person – free for veterans and children 12 and younger). A Coast Guard horse patrol will be on site.

Museum Gift Shop will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

10:30 a.m. – Lee Jennings Memorial Mess Hall opens with food and beverages prepared by Hooked Up available for purchase. Across from the mess hall, WWII Tunes performs in the Orientation Building.

11 a.m. – Artillery demonstration of 3-inch gun begins.

Noon – Author and retired Cmdr. Timothy Dring, U.S. Naval Reserve, will lecture on U.S. anti-submarine warfare during WWII, Museum Media Room.

1 p.m. – Surrender of German submarine U-858 with 261st Coast Artillery Chaplin Michael Hills presiding.

2 p.m. – WWII small arms and artillery demonstrations begin.

3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Rehoboth Beach Concert Band performs at Orientation Building.

ALL DETAILS FROM THE WEBSITE: https://fortmilesha.org/delaware-defense-day-2023/