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1st LT
     Greater Augusta
William Weisberger z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
1st Lt - pilot
     Aroostook County
Abraham M "Abe" Daniels z"l  US Marine Corps World War II \\\"awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight, in actions against enemy Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.\\\"  Diana Lee Daniels Thompson (email Nov 2013)
1st SERG 
     Greater Augusta
Rubin BLACK z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
AO2
Robert Joseph LEVIN z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Army Sergeant
     Greater Portland
Abraham Leibowitz z"l   WWII  BethElMemPark
Brigadier General
     Greater Bangor
Bernard Sanders Waterman z"l     Philip Lown biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine
CAPT
     Greater Augusta
Philip DACHSLAGER z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Captain
     Greater Waterville
Stanley Beckerman z"l  US Army Korean War  JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Captain US Army
     Greater Rockland
Michael A "Mike" Savitt   1966-1969   Michael Savitt
CLP
     Greater Augusta
Vinton Wesley WALLACE z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Colonel
Jacob Dana z"l  US Army 1943--1979   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
CORP
Davies Harold Katz z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Corporal
     Lewiston Auburn area
Edmund Simonds z"l   1942-1946 Link Trainer Instructor  Military documents
CPL
     Greater Augusta
Hyman KRASOW z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
CPT
Joseph B KIEL z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
CW0
Leon FINKELSTEIN z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
First LT
     Greater Bangor
Israel Sydney Laeger z"l  US Army 2007 WWII  Israel Sydney Laeger -- Obituary
Lieutenant Colonel
Albert H Friedman  US Army   Julia Sterling (2014)
Major
     state-wide Maine
Harold Minot Beckleman z"l  US Army   GeneaologyBank
Major General
     Greater Bangor
Roland M Gleszer z"l  US Army   Jordan Alpert (2013)
Merchant Marine 3rd Engineer
Jerry Gotlieb  Military Sea Transportation Service 1961- 1963 Traveled mostly to Vietnam for the war effort build-up  Jerry Gotlieb (2018)
Military title not known
     Bath
Edward Barrett "Veni" Cogan  US Army 1939 glider pilot and warrant officer  NathanCoganBathHistory
Owen (Sonny) Greenblatt   retired  Cara Davis
     Brunswick
Harry Abelon z"l     BethElMemPark / SSDI
     Cumberland County
(excluding Greater Portland)
Louis Fineberg z"l     MtSinai2000 records
     Florida
Mortimer "Morton" Slosberg z"l     Mt.Sinai 2000 records
     Greater Augusta
Israel KEMINSKY z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Harry Naiman z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Louis I NAIMAN z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Freda Trachtenberg z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
     Greater Bangor
Seymour "Sy" Chamoff z"l     BethElMemPark
Milton Goodkowsky z"l     1947 Bangor Hebrew Community Center
Benjamin "Ben" Viner z"l     BethIsraelYarzeheit
     Greater Biddeford
Ivan / Isadore Aranovitz z"l     Jennie Aranovitch
Samuel L " Sam" / Soam Cohen z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Frederick B "Fred" Green z"l     BethElMemPark
Jon / John Nathanson z"l     Jennie Aaronvitch
Ida Osherowitz (born Ginsburg) z"l     MtSinai2000 records
     Greater Portland
Albert ("Jim") Abrahamson z"l     BethElMemPark
Jules Abramson z"l     BethElMemPark
Samuel Appel z"l     BethElMemPark
Albert Aranson z"l     BethElMemPark
David "Dave" Astor z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Benjamin Band z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Jacob Berenson z"l     JCC1938-1968Bulletin
William Berman z"l     BethElMemPark
Edward I Bernstein z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Israel Bernstein z"l     BethElMemPark
Lewis Bernstein z"l     BethElMemPark
Louis Bernstein z"l     BethElMemPark
Sumner Thurman Bernstein z"l     BethElMemPark
David Blotner z"l     BethElMemPark
Samuel Blotner z"l     BethElMemPark
Boris "Benjamin" Blumenthal z"l     BethElMemPark
Morris Blumenthal z"l     BethElMemPark
Harry L Bogg z"l     BethEl(Portland)Yarzheit
Brewster Branz z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Jack Branz z"l     BethElMemPark
Robert S Brenner z"l     CedarMemPlaques / Portland Press Herald Obituary
Julius Brinn z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010 / BethElMemPark
David I Brownstone z"l     BethElMemPark
Harold Carlin z"l     BethEl2006Anniversaries
Bernard Chapman z"l     Richard Chase
Richard I Chase z"l     MtSinaiCem - 2000 records / Harris Gleckman
Charles Gilbert CHASON z"l     headstone / DavidRosen-AdvocateWeddingIndex
Saul G Chason z"l     BethElMemPark
Martin H "Marty" Clenott z"l   https://obituaries.bowdoin.edu/martin-h-clenott-43/  MtSinai2000 records
Max M Cooper z"l     ChevraKaddishaNov2007
Mitchell Cope z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
David A Crasnick z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Max R Crasnick z"l     BethEl(Portland)Yarzheit
Solomon "Sol" Crasnick z"l     Ben Band / ChervaKaddishaNov2007-DeathCert&Obit
Harry E Davis z"l     1900MeCensus/ BethElMemPark
Maurice Davis z"l     1930 Portland City Directory
David Diamon z"l     BethElMemPark
Maurice / Morris Drees z"l     BethElMemPark
Sidney Dvlinsky z"l     Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Assn
Maurice Elowitch z"l     BethElMemPark
Daniel S Epstein z"l     BethElMemPark
Philip Erlick z"l     BethElMemPark
David Farber z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Isadore Feinberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Cyril Feinstein z"l     BethElMemPark
George Finberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Norman M Finberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Stanley Fink z"l     BethElMemPark
Melvin Gordon Finn z"l     BethElMemPark
Arthur Freund z"l     BethElMemPark
Myron "Mike" Friedman z"l     Bet Haam Yarzheit records (2012)
Saul Gerber z"l     BethElMemPark
Henry Gilbert z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Benjamin Goldberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Myer Goldberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Saul Arnold Goldberg z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Samuel Goldfarb z"l     BethElMemPark
Eugene Golodetz z"l     BethElMemPark
Stephen Greenberg z"l     BethElMemPark
Arthur Israel Grossman z"l     1930 Portland City Directory / Madeline Segal Apr 2005
Ralph Heifetz z"l     BethElMemPark
Irvin D / Irving Herman z"l     BethElMembership1950-1951
Frank David Hugo z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
George Allen Hugo z"l     BethElMemPark / Harold Hugo - Dec 2015 email
Nathan Hyman z"l     BethElMemPark
Arthur Jacobson z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Melvin Jacobson z"l     BethElMemPark
Mitchell Jacobson z"l     BethElMemPark
Samuel Jacobson z"l     1900FederalCensusMaine
Sidney Jacobson z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Silas Jacobson z"l     BethElMemPark
Wallace Jaffe z"l     ShaareyTphilotRecords
Alexander Kaatz z"l     BethElMemPark
Charles Kaatz z"l     BethElMemPark
James Kaatz z"l     BethElMemPark / MEMarriages1892-1996
Abraham Kaplan z"l     BethElMemPark
Donald Kaplan z"l     BethElMemPark
Bernard Kazon z"l     BethElMemPark
Solomon Kessler z"l     MtCarmelMap
Jonas Klein z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Milton Kodis z"l   http://obituaries.pressherald.com/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=156781747  MtSinai2000 records
Sidney Kodis z"l     MtSinai2000 records
David "Dave" Koocher z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
James S or J Kriger z"l     MtSinai2000 records / headstone
Lewis H Kriger z"l     BethElMemPark
Hyman Kroot z"l     BethElMemPark
Arnold "Arnie" Kuvent z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Rubin / Reuben Laskoff z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Harry Lerman z"l     BethElMemPark
Sidney "Syd" Lerman z"l     BethElMemPark
Carl Lonstein z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Nathan Mack z"l     1900MeCensus / MeDeathRecs1960-1997
Owen Mack z"l     MtSinai2000 records
Myer / Meyer Marcus z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
William David 'Bill' Pinansky z"l     BethElMemPark
Gerald Meyer Pollack z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Henry Pollard z"l     Jessica Lantos
Carl Richman z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Charles Rothstein z"l     Southern Maine Jewish Cemetery Assn
Morton Shulman z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Isadore K Silverman z"l     headstone
Ernest Sturman z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Jacuciel E / Cushey Sulkowitch z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Paul Trusiani z"l     Sherri Quint (2017)
     Greater Rockland
Sydney L Shafter     1930 US Fed Census Rockland
     Greater Waterville
Alvin Jolovitz z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010 / 1930USFederalMECensus, pg 12B
Lester T. Jolovitz z"l   Spent 1942 - 1945 in the European Theater in the Medical Corp  Alan Aronson / Beth Israel Hebrew Name List 9 Sept 2009
Michael Rapoport z"l     BethElMemPark; Norman Rapoport (2014)
Gordon Wolman z"l   Enlisted 1942. World War II veteran  MtSinai2000 records / Myrtle Wolman (2012 e-note) / Beth Israel Hebrew Name List 9 Sept 2009, obituary
     Lewiston Auburn area
Harman / Harmon Butler  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Mark Cohen  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Stanley Lee Davidson  US Navy 1955   1955 Zelch
Milton Deletetsky  US Navy 1955   1955 Zelch
Sheldon Lederman  US Air Force 1955   1955 Zelch
Martin George Levine  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Daniel Miller  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
William Allan Perry  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Earl Prolman  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Jules Matthew "Jay" Rosenberg z"l   WW I  Donald Day Rosenberg family tree
Arthur Shephard  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Robert Stack  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Mickey Weiner  US Army 1955   1955 Zelch
Richard Winner z"l     
     New York
Eber / Eben Resnick     MtSinai2000 records
     Not Sure
Stephen B. Alberg z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Louis R Bernstein z"l      ShaareyTphilotYarzheit2006
Howard S Brenner z"l     MtSinai2000 records / 1930 US Federal Census
Leon W Gedacht z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
William Klein z"l  US Army 1949 Other Data : apt 13 H.S. apts, University of Maine, Orono - US Army   B'nai B'rith Membership Record of William Klein
Robert Rosen     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
Jerry Schulman z"l     Temple Beth El (Portland) Yahrzeit 2010
     Rumford
Alan Nathan     self
     state-wide Maine
Henry Julius Binder z"l     BethElMemPark
Glenn Weber Bricker z"l     BethElMemPark
Leo Glasser z"l     BethElMemPark
     York County
(excluding Greater Biddeford, OOB, and Sanford-Springvale)
Jack Mayer Lachman z"l   Limerick,ME  BethElMemPark
Military title of Army Major
     Greater Portland
Joseph Stillman z"l   during WWII  Sherri Quint (2019)
naval officer
Benjamin "Ben" Yormack z"l     Charles Brand
PFC
     Greater Augusta
Eugene N SOSNOFF z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Private
     Greater Rockland
William C Ulmer  Co. B, 116th Regiment 1987   Adas Yoshuron 75th Anniversary Commemorative book, part 2
SEA2
     Greater Augusta
Julius G Sussman z"l     JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
served in
     Greater Bangor
Max Gopan z"l  U.S. Army Air Corps   Charlotte Gopan Jerace (email 2019)
soldier
     Greater Portland
Louis Samuel Lane z"l   "died in WWII fighting in a S. Pacific island"  1930PortlandCityDirectory
     New York
Seymour Levine   1944 stationed at Fort Baldwin, Popham  NathanCoganBathHistory
solider
     Greater Rockland
Johanna Baer z"l     Berliawsky-SmallHeadstones / Laurence Coe (2023(
Staff Sergeant
     Greater Bangor
Joseph Herbert Kobritz z"l  US Army - 1944    email from Charlotte Schwab (June 2018)
US Army - PFC
     Greater Augusta
Judah Ariel GATLING z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Hyman MARX z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Bernard Reiner z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Phillip W Sr Small z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
     Lewiston Auburn area
William PICK z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Army - SGT
     Greater Augusta
Louis S HORNSTEIN z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
John LEVINSKY z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Stanley Miller z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Howard Slosberg z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Army - SSG
Richard L (now 30427) WINNER z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Army - SSGT
Melvin I GOTHA z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Henry LEVY z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Vernice L / Vernon Segal z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Stewart S SHULMAN z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Army - staff sargent
     Greater Portland
Irving Lourie z"l  United States Army World War II   Ava Bradley Lourie
US Army - TEC3
     Greater Augusta
Joan C Golden z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
William NASECK z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Army - TEC5
Seymour BLACK z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Lenlie E CARTER z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Howard GOLDSTEIN z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Alfred R MANDELL z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
Bertram G NEWMAN z"l  US Army   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
US Marine Corp
     Lewiston Auburn area
Donald Day Rosenberg  US Marine Corps 1955   1955 Zelch
USAAF- TSGT
     Greater Augusta
Marvin C CHAIKEN z"l  US Air Force   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USAAF-Major
Bennett Katz z"l  US Air Force   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USAAF-SSGT
Charles Edwin HARDY z"l  US Air Force   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USAF- A1C
Harvey S NASECK z"l  US Air Force   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USCG - HA1
Eugene Parker z"l  US Coast Guard   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USF - Colonel
     Greater Portland
Robert Levine  US Air Force 1970-2002   Robert Levine (2013)
USM-M
     Greater Augusta
Harold LEIBOWITZ z"l  US Marine Corps   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USMC - corporal
     Brunswick
Meyer Leo / Myer Leo Davis  US Marine Corps four years  WWI draft registration card
USMC-PFC
     Greater Augusta
Morton D Kaplan z"l  US Marine Corps   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USMC-SGT
Terry D LANYI z"l  US Marine Corps   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USN- PHM1
Leon H GAYNOR z"l  US Navy   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USN-MCPO
Joseph F LEGER z"l  US Navy   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USN-PHM2C
Lester MARCUS z"l  US Navy   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USN-SK3
Leonard M Dansky z"l  US Navy   JewishGen : MaineVetsMemCemetery
USNR- LTJG
     Greater Bangor
Jerry Gotlieb  US Navy 1961 to 1967   Jerry Gotlieb (2018)