Dickc
Active member
The blackouts were a coastal thing as U-Boats were just off shore and city lights would silhouette the shipping at night making them easy prey.My Mom told me one of her earliest memories is having to turn the lights off every night in NYC during WWII (or perhaps the neighborhood power was cut each night, I cant recall). As a WWII buff, this still strikes me as odd because Germany had neither long-range bombers, nor aircraft carriers. Perhaps every generation of kids needs to be irrationally terrorized by something.