Keywords: Battalion
Item 22779
Aubrey Lee Ferguson, Mapleton, ca. 1913
Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Mapleton Media: Photographic print
Item 22780
Aubrey Lee Ferguson, Mapleton, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1903 Location: Mapleton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine
The Black Guards were African American Army soldiers, members of the segregated Second Battalion of the 366th Infantry sent to guard the railways of Maine during World War II, from 1941 to 1945. The purpose of the Black Guards' deployment to Maine was to prevent terrorist attacks along the railways, and to keep Maine citizens safe during the war.
Exhibit
Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Paul Fleming, WW II, South Germany, 1945
"… of Battery C 512th Anti-aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. His service was mainly in Europe, fighting in the well-known Battle of the Bulge in…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911
"… Carleton Band, followed by a Knights of Pythias Battalion U.R.K.P., "Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias," a militaristic branch of the Pythian Order."
Story
Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division
Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam
Story
Service in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan by MAJ Adam R. Cote
by Adam R. Cote
Military Service has had a deep impact my life
