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Album of Photographs of 43rd Bombardment Group Overseas, After Training at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine
Get PDFPhotographs, drawings, and war-time pamphlets compiled by First Lieutenant Annis G. Thompson, Historical Officer for Dow Field / Dow Air Force Base, in Bangor, Maine, from 1943 to 1944 for the 43rd Bombardment Group.
Photographs reveal far-ranging movements and locations for the 43rd. Many close-ups of airplane nose art are included. Drawings appear to be primarily by the very talented W. Clark Gamble, which include his rendition of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
Bangor Public Library added this scrapbook to our collection in 1948. We are not certain when the scrapbook was completed. Photographs with dates included are primarily from 1943 and 1944.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/dow_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
The Oracle, 1948
Get PDFWe, the class of 1948, have chosen Concord Through Cooperation as our motto. We have grown up in a world in which men have forgotten that they must work together in harmony if civilization is to progress. In their individual greed and personal lust, they have lost sight of the fact that man is a social animal, dependent upon his brothers for his well being. During our years in high school, we have studied many academic subjects in the classroom, but, whether on the football field, the basketball court, or the debating platform, we have learned a lesson that is as important as any of the others -- the lesson of teamwork. As we go forward into the adult world, we carry with us this knowledge of cooperation. We intend to employ it in whatever way possible so that we can do our part in making concord through cooperation a reality.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bhs_yearbooks/1012/thumbnail.jp
Through Combat: 314th Infantry Regiment
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The history of our regiment has been written in this book long after the fighting ceased. It does not tell the complete story. A book many times its thickness could not do that. The story of the Falcon Regiment is written on the fields, the valleys, the hills and the forests of France and Germany with the blood of the dead and wounded, and the sweat of those who lived. The history is complete in detail and will linger on as fear in the mind of Germany and as gratitude in the heart of America forever.
In deeds, not words, is the history of tlle 314th Infantry written. We are proud of the accomplishments of our fine regiment. It is a story of American men who gave their all that the country they called home might live.
I desire to express my appreciation to each indiyidual for the part he played in making final victory possible. Some contributions were large, some were small, but the combination makes an epic of a brave regiment of a grand division that was given an important mission to perform, and performed that mission in the highest tradition of the United States Army.
May the comradeship, the self-sacrifice and the devotion to duty displayed while wearing the Cross of Lorraine never die. May your lives and the lives of those around you be richer for this experience.
W.A. Robinson, Colonel 314th Infantry, Commandinghttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1224/thumbnail.jp
The boom-dozer: 30th Special Naval Construction Battalion
Get PDFThis is a pictorial review of the overseas activities of the men who helped deliver the goods for the Navy. This may be interpreted as the story of your own Bill or Joe or Eddie, for within these covers we have endeavored to display the living story, in pictures, of individual personalities.
How better could a Seabee Battalion be defined than . . . a sizeable group of individuals, each of whom possesses a knowledge of some specific trade or profession, is able to think for himself, to perform his duties under pressure, working together as a highly synchronized unit and willing to fight together if need be to preserve the freedom and personal right for which our great country stands.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1055/thumbnail.jp
Maine Invites You: 14th Edition [1948]
Get PDFThis fourteenth edition of Maine Invites You is designed to help you plan for that glorious vacation which only the great Pine Tree State can offer.
Between the covers of this booklet an endless variety of information has been arranged for the sole purpose of introducing you to Maine\u27s limitless Vacationland possibilities.
By word and picture we hope to convey some idea of the way Nature has showered her greatest blessings on Maine -- silent, mysterious forests, the beauty of lakes and hills, the music of streams, the sweep of great rivers, the majesty of a rock-bound coast and sea-girt isles.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1092/thumbnail.jp
Operation USO: report of the President, February 4, 1941-January 9, 1948
Get PDFTo the People of the United States
Just seven years ago, (on February 4, 1941), the USO was incorporated to aid in the war and defense program of the United States and its allies by serving the religious, spiritual welfare and educational needs of the men and women in the armed forces and defense industries, and in general to contribute to the maintenance of morale in American communities.\u27
Growing out of the human concern and patriotic desire of its member agencies to render a united though separately distinctive service in a great national emergency, the USO became both a symbol of a nation\u27s care for its sons and daughters in uniform and a principal channel for an unprecedented civilian participation in a total war effort.
In seven years the USO has exercised a fiduciary trusteeship involving $236,000,000 voluntarily and gladly contributed by countless individuals in every county, town and hamlet in the United States and thousands of men in uniform stationed throughout the world. This money has been translated into a billion and a half recorded services -- and millions more never tallied.
While the end of the war has not brought with it the end of an emergency for any nation; and while the times are still rife with human peril and human need, still the USO has discharged its mission, fulfilled its original purpose and ended its task. An official and complete history of USO has already been written and, together with pertinent documents and significant records, it will be filed permanently in the Library of Congress. The drama of the enterprise has been recorded in the book by Julia Carson, Home Away From Home.\u27
It is now appropriate to render a simple but complete factual accounting to our contributing and participating public. That is the purpose of this report.
January 9, 1948
L.F. Kimball, President, United Service Organizations, Inc.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1151/thumbnail.jp
The Bapstonian: 1948
Get PDFThis is our album, our souvenir, to keep the memory of high school days. You will find recorded here some of the shifting scenes against which we have played many parts. Through all these scenes a striking light glows, shedding its strength upon all. We shall ever remember John Bapst High School as a watchful sentinel upholding the truth and the right.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/jbhs_yearbooks/1003/thumbnail.jp
Annual Report, Bangor, Maine: 1948
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The Government Ice Breaker Snohomish opened the river to the Bangor docks February 14, 1948. The Snohomish also came up the river February 15, 20 and 27. The river was opened for commercial craft February 14, and the first tanker arrived at the Port of Bangor February 15, 1948. . The port closed to navigation on January 13, 1949. The port in 1948-49 was opened 335 days as against 339 days for the previous year.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/city_ban_report/1014/thumbnail.jp
A history of the United States Army Twelfth Armored Division, 15 September, 1942 - 17 December, 1945
Get PDFSpeed and devastating striking power, coupled with the gallant deeds and heroism of its personnel, wrote a glorious history for the 12th Armored Hellcat Division during its five months of constant combat against the enemy in Europe in World War II. Speed was its password to Fortress Europe.
Its activation on September 15, 1942, maneuvers, camp training, the boat trip over, the cold days of England, and the first hectic days of France-during those days the Hellcats gradually acquired the fighting spirit and esprit de corps that were to make the 12th one of the fastest striking, most feared divisions on the Western Front.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1045/thumbnail.jp