France and the United Kingdom agreed to support Poland and in August of 1939, German troops began to gather on the Polish border. By September 1st, Germany launched an invasion of Poland. 16.
Plum Island sits in Long Island Sound, one end pointing toward the Connecticut coast and the other toward Long Island's North Fork. By ferry, it is over an hour from either shore. An old lighthouse seems to invite tourists but no outsiders are allowed on the secured facility.
The nefarious history of Plum Island began after World War II when Erich Traub, a German biological warfare expert joined the team. Our government learned of the German penchant for bio-weapons technology through defectors. Significantly, Traub had operated a germ warfare lab on an island in the Baltic Sea. Either the U.S. Army knew nothing about migratory patterns or, as is more logical, Army researchers knew exactly what they were doing. Plum Island is on the Atlantic flyway that runs from the Florida coast up the eastern seaboard to Greenland. A million birds rest on the island before flying on to the Connecticut River estuaries in Lyme, CT. It is possible but doubtful that the Army also overlooked the fact that deer regularly swim between the island and the mainland.