75 Years Ago – Aug. 30, 1945
Awards made to Scouts at the Legion home — At a meeting of the Aroostook Forty and Eight held at the home of Ray Goding Post, American Legion, the three Presque Isle Scouts credited with saving lives at Portage, Russell Sprague, Richard Adams, Richard Maynard, were officially presented Legion award medals.
75 Years Ago – Aug. 23, 1945
Washburn man’s unit awarded plaque — The Meritorious Service Unit Plaque was awarded to Company A, 3119th Signal Service Battalion, of which Private First Class Kenneth W. Pike was a member.
75 Years Ago – Aug. 16, 1945
Commended by President Truman — With the First Airborne Army occupying Berlin, Harold E. Hansen of Presque Isle was among those commended by President Harry S Truman during his stay at the Big Three Conference in Potsdam.
75 Years Ago – Aug. 9, 1945
Pvt. Bellefleur at the PI Army Air Field — Pvt. Stanley J. Bellefleur, Limestone, arrived at the Presque Isle Army Air Field after a trans-Atlantic flight in an Air Transport Command C-54 Skymaster plane of the North Atlantic Division’s “Snowball” fleet.
75 Years Ago – Aug. 2, 1945
Pfc. Trainar awarded good conduct medal — Colonel James R. Gunn, Jr., commanding officer of Florence Army Air Field, announced the award of the Good Conduct Medal to Pfc. Arline L. Trainar of Presque Isle.
75 Years Ago – July 26, 1945
Inducted through local board No. 2 — The list of registrants inducted through local board No. 2 were as follows:
75 Years Ago – July 19, 1945
Jamieson structure to fall — The demolition of the old Jamieson building on State Street had started. The tearing down of the new building, which was handled by N. W. Downing and Son Co., was to make way for the construction of a modern theatre.
75 Years Ago – July 12, 1945
Abbott appointed — David K. Abbott of Presque Isle was appointed executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, which was announced by President Frank A. Smith. Abbott, a graduate of the University of Maine, had been affiliated with the Federal Land Bank and the Presque Isle Production Credit Association.
75 Years Ago – July 5, 1945
Commander promoted — Lieutenant Colonel Howard H. Maxwell, commanding officer of the Presque Isle Army Air Field, was notified of his promotion to full colonel. Col. Maxwell arrived in Presque Isle October 1944, and assumed command of the Presque Isle field, which was a unit of the North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command.
75 Years Ago – June 28, 1945
Sgt. James Powers awarded Bronze Star — Sgt. James N. Powers, of RED No. 2, son of Mr. Patrick Powers of Presque Isle, and a member of the 802nd MP Co., was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in connection with military operations against an armed enemy during the period, June 6, 1944, to May 9, 1945, in France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
