World War II

Salsbury was just 19 years old and serving as a gunner on the aircraft on August 1, 1943 when it went down.

Before the funeral, many of his nieces and nephews — and grand and great grand nieces and nephews — who had flown in from all over the country, and many of whom had never met each other, were looking at photos and trying to recall stories about the Millinocket boy who liked to pick blueberries and go skiing.

An old New England Maritime mystery has been solved. The USS Eagle PE-56 Navy warship was sunk near Maine's coast by a German submarine in April of 1945,…

Charles Norman Shay of Old Town remembers all too vividly where he was 70 years ago today. The 89-year-old Penobscot Indian was a combat medic with the…