Album 4 – Tunison Album 1 Album 2 Album 3 Album 4 Album 5 Album 6 Album 7 Album 8 Red Cross WWII Drawings ETO Miscallaneous Creator of Life in the ETO Albums, James B. Tunisonand 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

The Windows in these Billets huts were generally metal Crittall units that came in many different pane configurations. These Temporary Brick buildings constructed at site 6 were designed to last for the duration of the war and have a life span of 10 years and were built out of single brick walls without a cavity. The walls are supported by brick piers spaced at 10-feet centers. with internal spans of 18 or 28 feet.

The walls also supported a light steel frame carrying corrugated asbestos sheeting or board with felt roofing. Outside the brickwork was rendered with cement whilst inside the walls were painted in a variety of colors. The buildings had concrete floors.

Site 6 was the only Living site to be constructed of brick at Burtonwood, the other Living sites being built of the prefabrication type. Barracks 7 group photo at Communal living site 6 Back row from the Left is Martin, Gazo, Eisensmith, Hancock, Williams, Nichols, Miller, Lindsey, Crawford, and Meredith Front row from the left is Kinyon, Williams, Courtney, and Kelzac

This photo was taken at the Site 6 Communal living site which was the only living site at Burtonwood to be constructed of brick the other living sites at Burtonwood were constructed of the pre-fabricated type. These buildings were designed to have a life span of 10 years and were built of a single brick, without a cavity wall, with piers at ten feet intervals. The walls supported a light steel frame carrying asbestos sheeting or board and felt roofing.

Outside the brickwork was rendered with cement whilst inside the walls were painted a variety of colours. The buildings had concrete floors. Stem