world war ii

Published
December 7, 2022

Handful of Pearl Harbor survivors drawn to Hawaii ‘out of respect’

A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing
Published
December 5, 2022

Remains of soldier who died in WWII POW camp to be reburied in Augusta

Army Pfc. Arthur L. Pierce, 26, of Malden, Mass., was accounted for in July through mitochondrial DNA analysis as well as anthropological analysis and circumstantial evidence.
Published
November 27, 2022

Bedside table: Romance! Thrilling war missions! Philosophical questions!

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Published
September 19, 2022

Ken Burns on his latest PBS documentary, ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

Burns: 'The willingness of people to believe the lies of an evil regime and manipulative leaders – demagogues – isn’t something that’s a one-off.'
Published
September 19, 2022

Review: Ken Burns’ new documentary spotlights how little the U.S. did to stop the Holocaust

'The U.S. and the Holocaust' shows that Americans fell far short of their ideals in their treatment of Jews threatened with imminent murder in Europe. And the film suggests that the past is not past.
Published
June 6, 2022

Mainer among those expressing joy, sadness at Normandy’s D-Day commemorations

D-Day veteran Charles Shay, a 98-year-old Penobscot Native American from Indian Island, Maine, took part in a sage-burning ceremony near the beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.
Published
May 12, 2022

Hometown burial Saturday for Canaan man killed in World War II

After nearly eight decades, the recently identified remains of Richard G. Salsbury, who was 19 when he died in 1943, to be returned to Canaan to be buried with family members.
Published
April 14, 2022

Westbrook Notes: April 14
Published
March 28, 2022

Litchfield’s oldest resident, who fought in World War II, plans a 100-yard-dash for his 100th birthday

Eugene Thompson, 99, was recently awarded the town's Boston Post Cane and in less than a year, plans to celebrate his 100th birthday by running a 100-yard-dash.
Published
February 27, 2022

Maine Voices: Invasion evokes ghosts of the Nazi past in Russia, Ukraine

Putin in particular is skilled in using language and imagery to play to an audience all too familiar with the realities of occupation.