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.
Bomb Damage
Frank Eppes and Jim Tunison at site 6 in front of a small Hilman truck
Jim was my Dad, and they met Paulette Starz here at the Red Cross
Well, they married back in New York right after the end of the war
High on a windy hill Air Raid Shelter with Paulette and a friend at Tinker Hall
Trudy and Paulette at Tinker Hall Site 6
Paulette is in the small Hilman truck at Site 6
Frank Eppes and Gorgeous Red Setter Dog Shawn at Site 6
Paulette Starz on the right with a friend on the Left at Tinker Hall
Paulette dancing with a man at the club at site 6
A message from Jeff Tunison
"I scanned some of Mom's loose photos, scanned them, and tried to get them in some sort of order. These are mostly my mom, Paulette Starz, when she joined the Red Cross and went to Burtonwood RAF during WWII, and met my dad, James B. Tunison (Jim). There are quite a few with her best friend Trudy Stevemon (sp?)."
Photo of Paulette Starz, Title please return to Mrs Emilie D. Starz, 11110 South Esmond Street, Chicago 43, Illinois
(please do not copy - credit to paulette starz)
Trudy Stevemon and Paulette Starz at Burtonwood
Paulette Starz at Burtonwood
Paulette Starz, wearing her Red Cross uniform, is talking on the office telephone at Tinker Hall Burtonwood
Paulette Starz, at the Red Cross desk at Warrington, England, in 1944
Popsi, Paulette Starz in front of a Douglas A-20G Havoc at Burtonwood US Air Force Base, Warrington in 1945
Group photo with Paulette Starz, she is standing in the centre, back row of an unknown place
Paulette Starz is in the back right corner, title Your true love out with another man at the Welfare Service
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