world war ii
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PublishedApril 23, 2025
When a German U-boat sunk a ship just off Maine’s coast
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2025
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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PublishedJanuary 29, 2025
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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PublishedJanuary 24, 2025
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.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2025
A Window on the Past: Lecture next Thursday – Defending Casco Bay during WWII
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PublishedNovember 18, 2024
Yarmouth Scout restores WWII fort on Peaks Island
The project on Battery Steele was organized by Scout Malcolm Nelson for his Eagle Scout project.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2024
This Maine man lost his brother during WWII. He’s still searching for answers.
Eighty years after Elmer Wright was presumed dead off the coast of Tunisia, his younger brother fought to get his true service recognized – even if it meant finding out he died by friendly fire.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2024
Booker finalist ‘The Safekeep’ is a moving look at history’s horrors
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is about a Dutch woman in 1961 forced to address her family’s past.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
A Maine professor spent a month in Poland making bagels and searching for his past
University of Maine at Augusta history professor Robert Bernheim hoped bagel diplomacy could help repair some deep wounds left by the Holocaust.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2024
The last witnesses of the Hiroshima bombing speak out
In a new book, 'Hiroshima,' M.G. Sheftall interviews the youngest survivors of the 1945 attack, who share stories of what they saw and about their lives since.
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