U.S. Army Airfield Main Gate, Houlton, ca. 1943
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Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
While many men and women from Maine were overseas during World War II, German prisoners of war came to Maine.
The headquarters for the Maine-based prisoners, who were assigned to locations around the state, was the Houlton Army Airfield, which had been built in 1939 to tow aircraft across the border to Canada -- getting around a prohibition of sales of aircraft while the U.S. was officially neutral.
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