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Captain Kant on the left, a United States officer based at Camp Houlton, and Captain Lauchman, a German POW on the right, posed together for a snapshot.

The Houlton Army Airfield served as a POW camp from July 1944 to May 1944. Many of the German prisoners helped with the potato harvest. The US extension service, the Maine extension service, the Farm Bureau, and Army drew up plans on how the system was implemented in Houlton. The farmers reported these men were not German stormtroopers they had been reading about but regular young men like their own and very good workers.

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About This Item

• Title: US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944
• Creation Date: circa 1944
• Subject Date: circa 1944
• Location: Camp Houlton, Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
• Media: Photographic print
• Dimensions: 10.2 cm x 5.7 cm
• Collection: Moloney Family Collection
• Object Type: Image

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Standardized Subject Headings

• Detention facilities--Maine--Houlton
• Officers--Maine--Houlton
• Prisoners of war
• Prisoners of war--German--Maine--Houlton--Photographs
• World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners

People

• Kant,
• Lauchman,

Other Keywords

• Airfield
• Captains
• German POW
• Harvest
• Military outpost
• Military post
• Officers
• Potato
• Prisoner of War
• WWII

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