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(Image: RadioMarine.org)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The Sandpiper<\/a> via Richard Langley)<\/p>\n

Who knows how many Americans realize that 100 years ago the United States was at war? After all, when about 25 people on the street in Beach Haven in the summer of 2012 were asked for a SandPaper article what war the U.S. had been involved in 200 years previously, very few could answer the War of 1812. There seems to be a flaw in the way history is taught in the U.S., and maybe math as well.<\/p>\n

So for those who don\u2019t remember their high school history, in 1918 the U.S. was heavily involved \u2013 with well over 4 million troops in Europe \u2013 in World War I, the \u201cWar to End All Wars,\u201d \u201cThe Great War.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is easy to imagine that even a world war wouldn\u2019t very much affect what was then a remote and rural Ocean County. But it did, in many ways. German U-boats prowled the Atlantic off the Jersey Shore; nearby Fort Dix (at first Camp Dix) was created and became one of the premier U.S. Army basic training centers in the country for decades.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wood of the Ocean County Cultural Heritage Commission[…]discussed two aspects of Ocean County and WWI in his 75-minute lecture\/slide show at the Long Beach Island Historical Museum on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

[…]The second half of Wood\u2019s presentation discussed the once-famous but now mostly forgotten Tuckerton Radio Tower, built in 1912 by the German government.<\/p>\n

[…]The tower was 820 feet high, making it, at the time, the second tallest structure in the world, behind only the Eiffel Tower. It was one of the first and most powerful transatlantic radio stations ever constructed. It survived until 1955, when it was torn down and sold for scrap metal and today lends its name to Little Egg Harbor\u2019s Radio Road.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full story at The Sandpiper.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Sandpiper via Richard Langley) Who knows how many Americans realize that 100 years ago the United States was at war? After all, when about 25 people on the street in Beach Haven in the summer of 2012 were asked for a SandPaper article what war the U.S. had been involved in 200 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,56,3,305,288],"tags":[3516,7157,2146,2144,3202,4508],"class_list":["post-33206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-richard-langley","tag-the-sandpiper","tag-tuckerton-new-jersey","tag-tuckerton-tower","tag-wwi","tag-wwi-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8DA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7280,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-tuckerton-towers-long-and-unlikely-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":33206,"position":0},"title":"The Tuckerton Tower’s long (and unlikely!) history","author":"Thomas","date":"September 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I love radio history, and I dive right into it when something especially piques my interest. 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