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Military facilities in Maine — current and historic military facilities located in the Northeastern U.S. state of Maine. Subcategories. This category has the ...
Pages in category "Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bangor Air National Guard Base is a United States Air National Guard base located on the grounds of Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine.. Created in 1927 as the commercial Godfrey Field, the airfield was taken over by the U.S. Army just before World War II and renamed Bangor Army Air Field and later Dow Field.
Since its establishment, soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard have served in every military conflict, either in a support role, or active theater operations. [ 3 ] According to a 2 March 2013 article in the Economist , "No state has lost more soldiers in Afghanistan, per person, than Maine—a fertile recruiting ground in every conflict ...
The Maine Department of Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management (DVEM) is a government agency in Maine. It comprises the two components of the Maine National Guard, the Maine Army National Guard and the Maine Air National Guard, the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs, the Maine Emergency Management Agency, and when it is active, the Maine State Guard.
Battery Steele (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Battery Construction #102) is a United States military fortification on Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, in Casco Bay.Completed in 1942 as part of World War II, it is located on 14 acres (5.7 ha) on the oceanside area of the island, formerly part of the Peaks Island Military Reservation.
The locations of most of these batteries, except one 6-inch Armstrong gun at Fort Williams, are unclear, but Fort Preble and Fort McKinley are the most likely sites. A total of six 8-inch M1888 breech-loading guns on converted Rodman carriages, along with a pair of muzzle-loading 8-inch converted Rodman rifles , were emplaced. [ 8 ]
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