Moulton’s World War II Observation Tower

After Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps decided it was time for the United States to have some type of early-warning system to defend against enemy air strikes.During that time the use of radar was very limited, and the military decided to establish a line of watchtowers as close as possible to the U.S. coastlines – these towers were to be operated by civilian…