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Message Urgent: Du Commandement Supreme des Forces Expeditionnaires Alliees Aux Habitants de Cette Ville
Get PDFMessage dropped by Allied airplanes over towns about to be bombed during the 1944 liberation of northern France. It tells the inhabitants immediately to get off the roads and out of the towns, into the country, to escape the bombing.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1121/thumbnail.jp
Dow Field, Bangor, Maine: Album of Photographs Relating to Dow Field, Bangor, Maine -- Volume 1, Part 1
Get PDFThis two-volume scrapbook set of over 1400 photographs compiled by First Lieutenant Annis G. Thompson, Historical Officer at Dow Field is presented in seven parts. Each part has about 200 photographs each. Each group of 200 photographs are more or less related to each other.
These photographs should be of particular interest to anyone knowing a family member served at Dow Field around 1944. If you know a family member served around this time, there is a strong chance you would find a photograph or more of your relative. Almost all of the photographs that are dated indicate 1944. These photographs primarily cover activities on the base in Bangor, such as drills, at the base hospital, at commander\u27s offices, and much more. However, large groups of pictures covering parties and outings with service member families are included too. Service members travel to Mt. Katahdin area, Schoodic Point, Pushaw Lake, Lake Lucerne, and more -- including a snow skiing trip.
The photographs have been compressed so that we could present all of them in a more browsable format. If you have questions about any photograph, contact Patrick Layne at Bangor Public Library.
Volume 1 Part 1 covers many aspects of Dow Field, but is most notable for itse xtensive amount of photographs of Women\u27s Army Corps (WAC) members and activities.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dow_books/1010/thumbnail.jp
For Peace and Security Buy Bonds
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Careless Talk Got There First
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Every Child Need a Good School Lunch
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You Are Needed Now -- Join the Army Nurse Corps -- Apply at Your Red Cross Recruiting Station
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Don\u27t Miss Your Great Opportunity .. the Navy Needs You In the WAVES
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January 3, 1944
Get PDFAlyce Connor, librarian, and Madeline Shaw, base hostess and party planner, smile on page 1; SGT Chester X. Jackson, a Newry, Maine, native talks about his role as base printer and the mystery of what the X stands for; and we see two photographs from the New Year\u27s Eve party held at the USO club on Park Street, with attendees Frances Johnson, Carol Grotten, Inez Hachey, Dorothy Meehan, and Annette McCathy of Bangor, PVT John Scarbrough of McDonald, Ohio, PVT Donald Ferriss of Rutherford, New Jersey, SGT Joseph Huhm of Flushing, New York, Corporal John W. Karr of Chicago, PTV Jay Herbert Gassman of New York City, SGT Nancy Grant of Chicago, and Midshipman Bruce Sherwin of Edgewood, Rhode Island.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1035/thumbnail.jp
May 6, 1944
Get PDFCPL Ade Seidman defeated CPL Lee Daleckey in the Dow Field badminton tournament; Know Your Officers presents Captain Robert S. Wiggins; SGT Leo Schuchman is the Dow Field\u27s Post Personality of the week; and S/SGT Roland Schmidt claims the base\u27s band is taking shape, with members SGT Vincent Quinn, SGT Joseph Cooper, CPL James Thompkins, CPL George Evans, PFC Venerable McFarland, PVT Richard Swift, and PVT Oliver French.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dowfieldobserver/1068/thumbnail.jp
Next! Japan, 6th War Loan
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