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Item 17031
Title: Letter from POW camp, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1944-05-12
Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland
Media: ink on paper
Item 17048
Title: Letter concerning Walter Hustus location, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1944-06-12
Location: Gneixendorf; South Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 4313
Title: Walter Hustus at Stalag 17-B, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1944
Location: Gneixendorf
Media: Black and white photograph
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Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
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War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor
Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.