Lt. Col. in the District of Maine militia from 1776. One of only two reproduction uniforms in the museum. The re-enactors uniform is accurate down to the buttons. The weapons are authentic.
Even the contents of the pockets are authentic. Here the curator is retrieving the contents of the Revolutionary War officer’s pocket.
A musket ball and flint from the pocket of the Revolutionary War officer.
An authentic compass from the pocket of the Revolutionary War officer.
Civil War Corporal with the 9th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of only two reproduction uniforms in the museum. The re-enactors uniform is accurate down to the buttons. The weapons are authentic.
World War I United States Marine in a bombed out French home
WWI Uniforms.
Tubbs, US Navy (left)
Alma Sidelinger, US Army Nurse (center)
Cpl Job Chapman, US Army (right)
Gunner’s Mate John Vedral, US Navy (left)
Cpl. Al Balko, USMC – WW II
WW II wounded soldier from the 3rd Infantry Division – WW II
Admiral Gus Kinnear, US Navy in dress blues – WW II, Korean War, Cold War & Vietnam War
PFC John P. Malick, Sr., USMC – Pacific Theater, WW II
Capt. Butterfield & Col. D’Errico (now Brig Gen) Maine Air National Guard
Col. Scotty Morgan, USAF – the only POW flight suit to come out of Hanoi. Sent to him by the North Vietnamese government in 2011 for reasons unknown. Scotty was the 4th POW captured in North Vietnam.
USAF Academy Cadet in winter gym clothes.
A 1/C Sam Longanecker, USAF & PFC Lynda Keene, US Army
Admiral Gus Kinnear, US Navy in flight suit – WW II, Korean War, Cold War & Vietnam War
Col. Scotty Morgan, USAF – the only POW flight suit to come out of Hanoi. Sent to him by the North Vietnamese government in 2011 for reasons unknown. Scotty was the 4th POW captured in North Vietnam.
Service blues for M/General William ”Bud” Breckner, USAF. POW from 07-30-72 to 03-29-73.
Lt. Col. Tony Marshall, USAF – F-4s. POW in Vietnam from 07-03-72 to 03-29-73.
Left to right: M/General John ”BILL” Libby, US Army & Maine Arng also The Adjutant General for the state of Maine for three terms. These were his last combat fatigues. S/Sgt Jim Foley, US Army & Maine Arng. Jim was a Hunter/Killer team sniper and a ”Tunnel Rat” in Vietnam. Lt. Col. Tony Marshall, USAF F-4s and a POW from 07-03-72 to 03-29-73.
Current combat fatigues for Lance Corporal Sean Montgomery, USMC, currently serving in combat in Afghanistan. On the right are the summer service tans for Captain Jim Mcdonough, US Army, killed in Action in Vietnam on his second tour.
Flight suit for Lee Humiston worn on his last flight with the 560th Flying Training Squadron in 2003.
Flight suit for Cdr. Porter Halyburton, USN. He made many flights to Hanoi and Haiphong before he was shot down. It came home with his personal effects as he was wearing Marine fatigues at the time. He was a POW from 10-17-65 to 02-12-73.
B-52 High Altitude flight suit – Capt. Paul Granger, USAF who was shot down during the Hanoi ”Christmas Raids”. He was a POW from 12-20-72 to 03-29-73.
MoMM 2/C Robert Maclellan, USN. He drove landing barges onto Utah beach at Normandy on H-Hour June 6, 1944 and then went to the Philippines and Okinawa for beach landings there. The patch on his left shoulder represents US Navy assault boat drivers and crews.
Lt. Col. Lew Shattuck, USAF. POW 7-11-66 to 02-12-73 wearing his original prison release uniform and Hoang Doang, North Vietnamese officer wearing his NVA period uniform at release.
Six year old Bobbie Hinshaw wearing the original WW II sweater on which his grandmother sewed patches given to him by soldiers and Marines on the troop trains from California to Kansas in 1942. He is with Capt. Everett King of the 44th Infantry Division and Sgt Arthur Mills of the 464th Bomb Group who was a POW in Germany.
Betty Kelly Pelton with her brother’s Vietnam War uniform.
Specialist Kelly – US Army.
Captain James McDonough – Killed in Action on his second tour, 1966. Chevrus High School and West Point.
Staff Sergeant – US Air Force.
Staff Sergeant Damon – US Army. UDT – forerunner of the Seals. Parachutist, Special Forces, Scuba diver, Deep Sea Diver. 30 veteran of the South Portland Police Department.
LCdr Porter Halyburton. Both his flight suit and his flight jacket came home with his personal effects as he was wearing Marine fatigues at the time.
LCdr Porter Halyburton’s POW bracelet was placed on his display by a museum visitor.
Dress Blues – Lt Col Jon Cleaves, US Army – 1st Armored Division.
Complete USAF fighter pilot’s flight suit, circa 1964, with old style helmet bag, flight helmet and parachute. WW II survival vest was still being used by pilots and is complete with colt .45 and survival items in the appropriate pocket pouches.
B-52 High Altitude flight suit worn by Capt. Paul Granger, US Air Force, POW 12-20-1972 to 03-29-1973.
Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler flight suit worn by Ted Meserve
