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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 28, 2023
Remembering veterans who died in World War II by telling their stories
The goal of Stories Behind the Stars is to organize a centralized digital location to collect the stories of the more than 421,000 Americans killed in World War II.
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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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PublishedNovember 17, 2022
WWII casualty Sgt. Zelwood Gravlin is laid to rest
Correspondent Paula Kane will provide more on Sgt. Gravlin's return in the Nov. 25 Franklin Journal.
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PublishedMay 12, 2022
Hometown burial Saturday for Canaan man killed in World War II
After nearly eight decades, the recently identified remains of Richard G. Salsbury, who was 19 when he died in 1943, to be returned to Canaan to be buried with family members.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2022
Litchfield’s oldest resident, who fought in World War II, plans a 100-yard-dash for his 100th birthday
Eugene Thompson, 99, was recently awarded the town's Boston Post Cane and in less than a year, plans to celebrate his 100th birthday by running a 100-yard-dash.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2022
Mainers among them, ‘Ghost Army’ tricked Nazis to give Allies an edge
The Congressional Gold Medal will be awarded posthumously to Donald C. Mead, father of a Maine judge, and others who served in a little-known mission to deceive the German army.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2022
‘Four Chaplains’ lost during WW II to be honored in Norway
The ceremony brings together representatives of St. Catherine's, South Paris' First Congregational Church, Bolster's Mills Methodist Church and Auburn's Temple Shalom.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2021
World War II ‘Code Girls’ recognized on 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
Jane Case of Scarborough and Leona Wright of Cornish were among the Navy cryptologists who helped the Allies win the war and blazed a path for women in the military.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2021
A former sailor who is now 101 returns to Pearl Harbor to remember those lost
Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans are gathering in Hawaii this week to remember those killed in the attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
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