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Published
February 21, 2021

Bedside table: One way to take your mind off the pandemic? Read about a very different disaster

'In Harm's Way' tells of the USS Indianapolis, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in World War II, which lost three-quarters of her crew, many to shark attacks.
Published
January 10, 2021

Bedside Table: ‘Disconcerting similarities’ to Hitler’s rise

For this reader, Erik Larson's 'In the Garden of Beasts' evokes Trump's America.
Published
January 10, 2021

World War II’s less-famous fascist

History rates Mussolini a buffoon, reserving its opprobrium for Hitler. In 'Mussolini's War, Gooch gives Mussolini more 'credit.'
Published
December 31, 2020

Author’s journey connects her with Maine veteran and World War II pilot

Loretto Thompson says the more than 500 letters her father wrote during his service in the Army Air Corps led her to Roger Sundin, a.k.a. ‘Big Sundin,’ the man she credits with saving her father's life in May of 1945.
Published
November 11, 2020

Maine Voices: Shore leave welcome break for young sailors in World War II

A Mainer who served in the Pacific Theater remembers everyone sprucing up for time on liberty – and coming back to tell their tales.

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Published
May 24, 2020

Maine Voices: The example of Roosevelt and Willkie points the way for American renewal

The COVID-19 crisis is a time to rise above partisan rancor and nurture our embers of unity into a conflagration of common purpose.
Published
May 8, 2020

World War II veterans mark V-E Day in Washington with Trump

Ranging in age from 96 to 100, they joined the president in a commemoration at the World War II Memorial.
Published
February 23, 2020

Bill Nemitz: He picked up a WWII dog tag – and couldn’t let go

Thanks to a Royal Australian Navy veteran, a Portland soldier's legacy rises from the battlefield on which he died.
Published
November 17, 2019

South Portland memorial honors a WWII veteran known for modesty, valor

Captured multiple times and awarded a Bronze Star, Barry Scott didn't speak about his experiences because he didn't want to 'brag.'
Published
October 23, 2019

Dorothea Buck, Nazi sterilization victim turned artist and author, dies at 102

Buck was one of an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 victims of forced sterilization under Nazi rule, and described in recent years by the German press as one of its last survivors.