Wallace Goldfarb, 102, was one of the few who survived as ball turret gunners, flying 34 combat missions over France and Germany in one of the most dangerous duty assignments during the war.
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She found an old photo, then reimagined her grandmother’s life
With ‘Indignity,’ Lea Ypi rescues her Albanian forebear, who grew up in the Ottoman Empire, from the flattening bureaucratic archives.
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How a BIW-built ship became a Navy legend
The USS O’Bannon’s fame began with battles against Japanese vessels in World War II.
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Midcoasters collected scraps and made sacrifices during World War II
Just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, launching the United States into World War II, America began an unprecedented civilian effort to gather and recycle materials that would ultimately ensure victory in Europe and the Pacific. When war production in the United States moved American production “from refrigerators to machine guns,” a […]
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World War II soldier from Gorham, buried in the Netherlands, is not forgotten
Cpl. Alfred O. Guimond, a Silver Star recipient, was killed in 1945 shortly before Victory in Europe Day. Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram columnist Bill Nemitz helped connect the Dutch family that adopted his grave with the soldier’s family in Gorham.
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Crewman gets Purple Heart 80 years after U-boat sank a ship off Maine coast
Eighty years after a torpedo ripped through the hull of the USS Eagle PE-56, just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth’s Portland Headlight, the United States Navy on Wednesday bestowed a posthumous Purple Heart to the great-nephew of Eagle crewman Norris W. Jones. On April 23, 1945, just one day after his 20th […]
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When a German U-boat sunk a ship just off Maine’s coast
In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay and fired one torpedo. Forty-nine men lost their lives, a great naval manhunt was launched and an enduring controversy […]
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Sabattus man is the new namesake of North Carolina’s Fort Bragg
World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort’s original namesake, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.
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Woolwich’s most senior resident is hooked on Klondike bars and misses cutting firewood
Approaching his 98th birthday, Charlie Presby, bearer of the Boston Post Cane, reflects on his life — praising Klondike bars and the power of the Maine community.
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WWII veteran and native Mainer celebrates 103rd birthday
Battalion Sgt. Maj. Jim Mardin served in the Army in an anti-aircraft unit, disembarking onto Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 12, 1944.