Keywords: Naval stations
Item 17521
Weapons depot, Brunswick Naval Air Station, ca. 1943
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1943 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 17514
WAVES, Brunswick Naval Air Station, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1945 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 110183
US Naval Receiving Station additions and alterations, Portland, 1940-1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940–1944 Location: Portland Client: Public Works Office Architect: United States Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks
Exhibit
Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers
Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.
Exhibit
Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island
Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Greenleaf Cilley
"While stationed aboard the Battleship “Ohio”, he participated in the expedition to Tusphan, Mexico. During its capture, he was wounded while storming…"
Site Page
"battleships, the USS Utah and USS Florida, naval representation spanned three continents, further demonstrating the First World War’s geographic…"
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
Story
Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER
A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I
