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Library to add name to ‘Book of Honor’

BANGOR – A ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Bangor Public Library to add Aubrey Withee’s picture and biography to the library’s “Book of Honor.”

The book was compiled in 1945 to honor Bangor residents who gave their lives in World War II but has never been completed.

Withee, who was born in Milo Junction in 1908 and later moved to Bangor, served in the Merchant Marines in World War II. On Feb. 5, 1942, two torpedoes from the German submarine U-128 hit his ship, the SS Pan Massachusetts, near the engine room where Withee worked and was killed.

The “Book of Honor” is still missing information about four Bangor men: Bernard Striar, who served in the U.S. Infantry and was killed in Italy in 1944; Frederick Thomas McGee, who was torpedoed aboard the SS Rochester on Jan. 30, 1942; William H. Ivey, a U.S. Army private; and PFC Harvey B. Lovett of the U.S. Marine Corps.

For more information about the book and ceremony, or to provide information about the men listed here, contact Bill Cook at 947-8336, Ext. 103.


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