“German Prisoners of War in Maine, From Foe to Friend” is the topic for the Belfast Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 24, in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. Hank L
“German Prisoners of War in Maine, From Foe to Friend” is the topic for the Belfast Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 24, in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. Hank Lunn, teacher and “Living History” presenter, will tell the personal story of what the experience was like to have German soldiers working on his family farm in Littleton, Aroostook County, Maine during World War II.
In 1944, the U.S. Army Air Base in Houlton, Maine became the site of a Prisoner of War (POW) internment camp for German soldiers captured in North Africa and France. The POW’s