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.
PRINT | E-MAIL. In September of 1942, Lt. Col. William L. Plummer, with a handful of officers and enlisted men, made his way through the long pines and palmetto scrub of rural South Dade County to assume control of an isolated airstrip located about a mile inland from the shore of Biscayne Bay.