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Here are a few notes about World War II matters that might be useful provincetownhistoryproject.org/PDF/lib_500_001-morris-light-post-71-american-legion-scrapbook.pdf The newspaper clippings in the scrapbook cover the WWII years (scroll halfway down), mostly about Provincetown men, though a few are about Wellfleet and Truro … Continue reading →

This is the fourteenth post, the last (in addition to some post-war notes) in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The first part of July brought many stories about plans for the Lorenzo Dow … Continue reading →

This is the thirteenth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The winter of 1945 had to have been a hard time for many Cape Codders. The Battle of the Bulge had been … Continue reading →

This is the twelfth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The summer of 1944 appears to have been relatively normal; the “Day Cape Codder” ran from New York to Hyannis, along with … Continue reading →

This is the eleventh post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The winter of 1944 was relatively uneventful in Wellfleet, with a sense that people were just hanging on, trying to keep things … Continue reading →

This is the tenth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The Wellfleet Fourth of July parade had no gas-powered vehicles this year because of the rule prohibiting automobiles for pleasure drives. Jack … Continue reading →

This is the ninth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. In January and February 1943, the story of a U.S. Navy antisubmarine patrol featured one of Wellfleet’s own: Wallace Pierce, Ensign, who … Continue reading →

This is the eighth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. There were no fireworks on the Fourth of July in Wellfleet in 1942. Instead, the Town had a longer parade that included … Continue reading →

This is the seventh post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II. The new year, with the country now at war, brought a measure of seriousness to life on the Cape. While the economy … Continue reading →

This is the sixth post in a series about life on the Outer Cape during World War II In June, in Provincetown, Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Donald MacMillan reminded Americans that the Germans could launch an attack on the U.S. … Continue reading →