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York Street Fire, Bangor, Jan. 27, 1945

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A Northeast Airlines DC-3 at the postwar Presque Isle Air Terminal Building on outer Mechanic Street bordering Presque Isle Army Air Field. Northeast Airlines DC-3s (as redesignated C-47s) and Northeast Airlines air crews performed survey and rescue flights from Presque Isle from 1941-1945. Commercial service resumed around mid-1945.

 

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In 1944 a major part of the Houlton Army Air Base was made into Camp Houlton, a Prisoner of War (POW) internment camp. It was a violation of the Geneva Convention to force POWs to work but they could volunteer to work. Camp Houlton provided laborers for local farms to harvest peas, pick potatoes and other work but not all POWs were allowed to work on the farms for security reasons. The prisoners were paid a dollar a day in scrip that they could spend at the post exchange, the base store, for toiletries, tobacco, chocolate, and even beer

 

Main Street butter line, Biddeford, 1943

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Citizens of Biddeford wait in line along Main Street to buy rationed butter at 8:00 a.m. During World War II, many basic items, such as gas, groceries, and household supplies, were needed for the war effort and rationed to the public. Americans were asked to conserve on everything.

 

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Roger Weatherbee is well remembered by many for his fly-by of Lincoln on May 20, 1946. Roger flew this plane from Florida to Presque Isle air base after being stationed in Florida after WW II. On his return flight, being so close to home, it was only natural he would want to fly to Florida via his hometown of Lincoln. He did this in great style. After buzzing the town at a very low altitude, with students at the Ballard Hill School being able to look right into his cockpit, he then turned the plane upside down and flew straight down Main St. and up over his home on High St. Roger was in the actual fighting of the war and flew many combat missions in a P-38 fighter plane. Roger and his P-51 plane has been talked about since that momentous day and now a model of this plane, upside down, hangs in a corner of a room in the Lincoln Historical Museum with a painting of the high school behind it.

 

B-24 Liberator Bomber Crew, Presque Isle, 1943

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B-26 and crew, Presque Isle air field, c. 1943

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Arrow is my dad.-MIKE

 

Kid's expression is priceless.....

 

Another Pittsburgh Guy..

 

Looks like a marine engine.

 

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