The revelation just a few days ago that the wreckage of the Navy’s USS Eagle 56 lost 5 miles off Cape Elizabeth in the final days of World War II has now been located is an occasion to recall one of the more vivid personas associated with the episode. Meet The Rev. G. Ernest Lynch. […]
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Posted inFranklin, News, The Franklin Journal
World War II veteran: ‘We went through hell’
Paul Simoneau, 95, of Livermore Falls, who served in the U.S. Navy, was involved in four invasions.
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Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Beyond the textbook: Maranacook teacher brings World War II to life for students
Shane Gower, admired among his students as the teacher who doesn’t ‘sugarcoat’ history, will be one of 50 teachers who will attend a national World War II conference in Washington, D.C., this summer.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, The Bethel Citizen
WWII veteran gives first-person account of service
Born in 1923, Roland St. Amour spent three years in the U.S. Army during World War II and was one of many who landed on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion. After the war, St. Amour returned to his hometown of Lewiston, where he worked at Pepperell Mill as a dyer for decades and raised […]
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World War II plane lands at Jetport
A B-24 Liberator makes its landing approach on Wednesday at the Portland International Jetport in South Portland. The World War II-era plane is the only fully restored and operable example of its kind. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald)
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Charles J. Bouchles
TUSCON, Ariz. — Charles J. Bouchles, 95, of Tuscon, Ariz., died peacefully Monday, April 2, at the Veterans Affairs Hospice of Tuscon. Charles J. Bouchles was born April 11, 1923, at home in Auburn, to Rose Marie Bouchles and George Joseph Bouchles who immigrated to Auburn from Greece on July 31, 1905. Charles served in World […]
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D-Day observance planned in Farmington
FARMINGTON — A service in observance of D-Day, June 6, 1944, will be held at noon Wednesday on Center Bridge on Main Street. It will start at the Park-N-Ride near Rite Aid on Main Street and people will walk up to the center of the bridge over the Sandy River. People who plan to participate […]
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WWII plane debris in France not from his flight, Waterville pilot says
WATERVILLE — Alfred “Al” Kramer was 23 years old when the B-17 bomber he was piloting on a bombing mission to Stuttgart was shot down by German fighter planes on Sept. 6, 1943. About to turn 98 years old next month, he recalls enough details of the harrowing experience and his downed aircraft to suggest […]
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Auburn mayor retraces WWII history in France
AUBURN — Last week, Mayor Jason Levesque was in France holding an unexploded hand grenade. He also walked past old foxholes, patches of field where land mines could still be hidden just under the earth, and found himself 75 feet underground in an old military bunker. During his weeklong trip, Levesque crossed off a major […]
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Movie dramatizes World War II hero
This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise, but “Darkest Hour,” an extraordinarily deft and moving depiction of the outset of Winston Churchill’s prime ministership during World War II. Cabinet meetings and political intrigue aren’t the most natural cinematic […]