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Creator of Life in the ETO Albums, James B. Tunison and Paulette Starz

James B. Tunison was from New York and enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1943 when he was 21. He had a couple of years of aeronautical engineering college at Cornell and was sent to Burtonwood to assist with building and repairing aircraft.

He met his future wife, Paulette E. Starz at Burtonwood. She was from Indiana and volunteered for the Red Cross.

After the war, Paulette returned home and Jim was sent to Dubendorf, Switzerland to repair and scrap damaged aircraft. Mom and Dad keep a serious long-distance relationship through postal letters. Jim proposed when he returned from the war. Jim was discharged in 1946.

Dad then worked for Republic Aviation on Long Island for several years. Then was transferred to a new project at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Jim enjoyed sports cars, art, and skiing. They had 3 children together, Jim, Jeff, and Andy. James B. Tunison was tragically killed in an auto accident a week before his 40th birthday.

Mom recently passed at 100 years and these volumes of photos were rediscovered. If you copy/ use any of the volumes somewhere else, please just credit James B. Tunison and Paulette Starz

Coming in on Runway 33, 1st Base Air Depot, USAAF Station 590 England

United States Army Air Force, WW2 Airfield Site Layout Plan of Burtonwood

Note- Some buildings and hangars had different numbers in WW2 as opposed to post-WW2

Goods Railway Cars at Thetford

Mounting According to T.O.

Bob Dodges Iron Cross

Cottage at Thetford

Officers Quarters at BAD Air Div Bury St Edmunds

Mary

The Town Hall at Nottingham

Hebert

Crawford and Gilman

Ray and Riley

Fairey Barracuda - Royal Navy

Braga and Meredith

The 3 Musketeers

Left to Right are Roper, Henson, and Wigan working on a P-47 Thunderbolt

Meredith

Group Photo Left to Right:

Joe Loss British Dance band leader and musician

Vera Lynn popular wartime singer

And Famous US Army Bandleader Major Glenn Miller

Last is Captain Clark [spec service]

Cartoon of the South Pacific 43 by C.R. Tunison

Bowdick at Communal Living Site 6

Sad Shack, Flight Line. in the snow

Sad Shack, flight line

D. H. 89 Dominie

Mary Ann Site can be seen in the background

B-24 Lucky Strike [Ploest 1 Vet] 

Hoerning and Cobb, next to B-17

Meredith, next to B-17s

Daly, next to B-24 Dirty Gertie

'Little Switzerland' standing at the entrance to an Air Raid Shelter at site 6

White Plain's Kid

B-26 Flying Prostitute

'Zean' next to B-26

Back row from the left is Martin, Daly, Linsey

Front row from the left is Courtney, Williams, and Hebert

Left to right are Daly, Williams, Shepherd, Martin, and Linsey

Left to right are:

Courtney, Martin, Daly, Williams, Hebert, and Shep

 

Back row from the left is:

Daly, Williams, Linsey, Martin

Front row from the left is:

Shepherd and Courtney

From the left are:

Eppes, Tuny, and Cisco

Eppes

From the left are:

Vernon [Shroub], and Eppes [Atkinson]

At the front is:

Eppes

and at the back is:

Hayes

'Buck Fry' Section 23, Site 1

Gamble, and Mc Cracken in front of C-47

Alert Service:

From the left are:

Gamble, Mc Math, Mc Gracken, and Hensen

This Building was located in front of the J-Type hangar on the Technical site

Alert Service:

From the left back row are:

Henson, Detorre, Shope, Dodge, Fri, Flanders, and Heimbuecher

From the left front row are Spaulding, Williams, and Gamble

Alert Service:

'Captain Mac' (note the model aircraft above the sign)

Riley from Oklahoma is next to a B-26

From the left standing in the snow are:

Hebert, Hancock, and Williams

Bud Martin from Xenia Ohio

Frank Fortuna in a Barrack hut

From the left are:

Henson, and McCracken

In the background is Building number 3 the ferry ATC Control

In the distance are the hangars of A-Site

Major Mc Math Outside of the 'Sad Shack'

From the left back row are:

Daly, Linasey, and Martin

 And from the left front row are:

Court, Shepherd, and Williams

The photo was taken at site 6

B-24 Old Boomerang claimed to have shot down 12 Jerries

Standing Left to Right is:

The Bombardier, CO-Pilot & Crew Chief

Left To Right Back Row Are:

'Lindsey', 'Courtney', 'Martin', & 'Herbert'

Left To Right Front Row Are:

'Shepherd', & 'Daly'

'Marshall' Is In The Cab

Left To Right Standing Are:

'Folly', 'Hoffman', 'Pettarre', 'Tek', 'Walters', 'Hoerning', & 'Griffith'

Left To Right Front Row Are:

'Forcine', 'Geiss', 'Greisimer', 'Snell', & 'Cob'

left to right are 'Gamble', 'McCracken' & 'Hensen'

'Daly' standing at the entrance of an Air Raid Shelter

left to right are 'Larry Ware' & 'Duncan' in front of B-17s

On the left is 'Moldy Morgan' and Assistant 'Wheel'

On the left is 'Hensen' & on the right is 'Spaulding' in front of A-20

'Ray Riley' in front of a P-47

'Miller' on the left and 'Braga'

'Meredith' in front of B-26

Donald Dipped - IN ALL - OVER - BE

'Gerre' on the Microphone

Inside the American Red Cross Aero Club

Piper L-4 Liaison Aircraft

B-17 'Alabama Exterminator II'

Two of a Kind

Nortarop P-61 Black Widow

UC-78 Advanced Multi-Engine Trainer Aircraft in a Collision with a B-17

Damaged B-17 of the 398th bomb group

Based at Nuthampstead UK

Vertical Stabilizer Flack damage of Flying Fortress B-17 G Nicknamed 'Sparky'

From the 100th Bomb Group 349 Squadron Based at Thorpe Abbotts UK

Photo Dated 19/5/44

Aircraft Taxiing Collision

'Git up them stairs'

Barracks 7 at site 6

Carole

American Red Cross Aero Club with Gerre & Friends

Gerre in the middle

Gerre

Gerre on the left with a friend

Gerre with a friend outside the American Red Cross Entrance

Gerre

Gerre standing in the West area of site 6

Jean, Gerre, Thatcher, & Kelly

Gerre standing on the left with 2 Friends

Gerre with pet Dog

Gerre is on the Left with a friend