Civil Air Patrol vets visit Rehoboth Beach Museum
The last remaining Civil Air Patrol member who flew out of the Coastal Patrol Base 2 in Rehoboth Beach during World War II visited the Rehoboth Beach Museum Oct. 8.
Current CAP pilots, historians, enthusiasts and relatives of CAP pilots who flew out of Rehoboth during the war joined CAP veteran Tom Worth for the Coastal Base 2 reunion.
The veterans visited the museum to talk to Executive Director Nancy Alexander about the upcoming exhibit about Rehoboth Beach’s role in World War II.
The CAP patrolled the coast for two years, from 1942 through 1943, looking for German submarines, and some eventually carried bombs on civilian planes to try to sink the enemy subs.
Shown at the museum are in back (l-r) David Cook, Bart Rogers, Sean Neal, Roger Thiel, Ray Harris, Les Dukes and Robert Cook. In front are widow of a Rehoboth Beach World War II CAP Pilot Beatrice Cook, World War II CAP Pilot Tom Worth and Betty Steger.
