Keywords: World war 1
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s
"His ships were known around the world, distinguished by a broad unpainted “bright line, some six planks just below the deck beading kept unpainted…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"… Airport After the blackout restrictions of World War II were lifted, the Port-of-Maine Airport opened at a site off Pleasant Hill Road."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4
"… airport, the Port-of-Maine Airport, opened after World War II at a site off Pleasant Hill Road. Service operations and flying schools operated at…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950
"… sunk by a torpedo in the South Atlantic during World War II on June 2, 1942. Morse Shipyard, Water Street, Thomaston, Maine c 1940Thomaston…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3
"During World War II, the reservoir was under constant surveillance against possible sabotage of drinking water sources."
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Aroostook Historical and Art Museum
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Colby College Special Collections
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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden
"An estimated crowd of 25,000 watched him defeat world champion Margaret Dillon and competitor Directum J in three consecutive heats at the Island…"
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Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu
"… million killed in the much more publicized First World War (1914-1918). In the United States, about 670,000 people died of the flu, out of a…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor
"Writer, Paul KoenigStaff. “World War II Nurse from Maine Subject of New Book.” Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal and Morning…"
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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4
"… five commercial dairies in town before the Second World War. Blueberries were always a commercial crop, some hand picked by local residents and…"
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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 2 of 3
"… students (and nurses) until after the Second World War. Mary Elizabeth Lyden (class of ’42) remembered that “We did more than just nursing."
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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2
"… perhaps the greatest attention after the Second World War. In 1948, a new School of X-Ray Technology accepted its first students, with Patricia…"
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"… a period of decline during the Depression, World War II revitalized the industry with factories on both the east and west coasts working at…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"World War I and II had an adverse effect and the population stayed the same or increased slightly. The mills were running full blast at this time…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village Schools
"World War two had a minimizing effect on New Portland's population, as the class sizes tended to go down after those years."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson
"Woodrow Wilson’s Ship is Torpedoed during World War II: Woodrow Wilson: and we were on the east side of Africa…and we were on our way home…and well…"
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"Bruinius, Harry, Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity, 2006, Vantage Books, New…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"A World War II Honor Roll stood on the grounds of the library for a time, but burned and was not replaced."