The Maine Connection: WWII

Bath Iron Works Reopened under new owners

1/4 of the destroyers used by the U.S. were built here

Kittery Shipyard built submarines

70 submarines headed out from Kittery

Bangor

Last place American planes stopped before heading to Europe

80,000 Mainers entered armed forces (1,600 died)

Women were needed in factories and farms

This organization sent hundreds of women out to Maine's farms