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PublishedJune 5, 2024
On D-Day, a young medic from Maine, Charles Shay, was ready to give his life and save others
Shay was awarded the Silver Star as well as France's highest honor for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded soldiers to relative safety, saving them from drowning.
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PublishedJune 2, 2024
A mass parachute jump over Normandy kicks off commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day
The ever-dwindling number of veterans in their late nineties and older who are coming back to remember fallen friends and their history-changing exploits are the last.
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PublishedJune 1, 2024
Family of late Mainer Ernest Brien receives medallion recognizing his valor during World War II
Brien's family was presented with the Legion of Honor medal by the honorary consul of France in Maine, in recognition of the sacrifices that the Portland native and Army soldier made for France during the war.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
80th anniversary of the ‘Great Escape’ from Nazi German POW camp marked in Poland
Most of the soldiers who escaped from Stalag Luft III on the night of March 24, 1944, faced a tragic end. Only three made it to safety. The others were recaptured and 50 of them were executed.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Massachusetts family helps return Japanese artifacts looted during World War II
The items, taken after the Battle of Okinawa, were discovered by a family sifting through the personal effects of their late father.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2023
American Legion post to host Veterans Day parade, ceremony in Waterville; lunch planned in Winslow
The parade is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at The Elm at 21 College Ave. and proceed south on Main Street to Castonguay Square, next to City Hall, where a short ceremony is planned.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2023
‘He’s home now’: Mainer killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 82 years later
Ensign Stanley Willis Allen of Bethel was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. His remains were identified 80 years later.
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PublishedMay 21, 2023
Maine Voices: Remembering the power of remembrance in Normandy
My uncle and thousands of others fought for liberty and freedom for all, bedrock principles we take too much for granted in our daily lives.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2022
Handful of Pearl Harbor survivors drawn to Hawaii ‘out of respect’
A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing
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PublishedDecember 5, 2022
Remains of soldier who died in WWII POW camp to be reburied in Augusta
Army Pfc. Arthur L. Pierce, 26, of Malden, Mass., was accounted for in July through mitochondrial DNA analysis as well as anthropological analysis and circumstantial evidence.
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