On March 8, 1945, 16-year-old Dean Yeaton began his day by filling two pails of water from a hole in the ice at his father’s remote logging camp at Spencer Lake in Hobbstown. As he reached shore, a pack of frightened, semi-wild pigs dashed past — signaling one of Maine’s largest manhunts was underway. The pigs had been spooked by law enforcement agents combing the woods with bloodhounds in search of three German prisoners who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp a mile from Yeaton’s camp. The Germans had disappeared from an ice-harvesting job the previous day. When the prisoners were...
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