Item 108923 - US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944
- Item 108923 - US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944
- Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
- Item 108923
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Image Info Captain Kant on the left, a United States officer based at Camp Houlton, and Captain Lauchman, a German POW on the right, posed together for a snapshot.
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The Houlton Army Airfield served as a POW camp from July 1944 to May 1944. Many of the German prisoners helped with the potato harvest. The US extension service, the Maine extension service, the Farm Bureau, and Army drew up plans on how the system was implemented in Houlton. The farmers reported these men were not German stormtroopers they had been reading about but regular young men like their own and very good workers.
