Originally Posted by
Danny42C
Exacerbated by two factors: Coastal shipping was silhouetted against the lights of the coastal towns (was there a blackout, and when ?).
Danny.
August 1942.
When World War II was fought off North Carolina's beaches
Many people who lived along the coast during World War II remember having to turn off their house lights at night and having to put black tape over their car headlights, so that lights on shore would not help the Germans find their way in the darkness. Even so, the government did not order a general blackout until August 1942.