ETO Baseleg -James B Tunison Album 1 Album 2 Album 3 Album 4 Album 5 Album 6 Album 7 Album 8 Red Cross WWII Drawings ETO Baseleg Miscallaneous <——– Click Here to Go Back to John J Tunison’s Album List 1-8Creator 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
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...
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 w...
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
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 i...
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
If you copy/ use any of the volumes somewhere else, please just credit James B. Tunison and Paulette Starz This is the last of dad’s albums from Burtonwood. At the end of the war James B.
Tunison was transferred to Dubendorf, Sw...
Tunison was transferred to Dubendorf, Switzerland in order to salvage or repair aircraft. These 21 pages are the end of his time in England and the flight and beginning of time in Switzerland where he developed a love of skiing.
Destruction of a Fort at Dubendorf Airfield, Switzerland
Swiss pulling Props
Cutting off Empennage
Burning fabric off the Elevator
Ryals chopping the Vertical Stabilizer
Salvage work at Kloton Airfield SwitzerlandTo the right is Miller and Morgan
German Junkers JU 52 with Swiss markings at Kloton Airfield Switzerland
Hotels in Zurich Switzerland
Parsenn Bahn from Dayos Dorf
Cynthia and Brenda from Leeds Yorkshire
Red Melzac and Rocky Ryals Instaling a Tail Skid to a Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Cut Her in Half
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Salvage
Coffee by the Waysidefrom the left is:Harwick, Moses, Penny, Jackson, and Ryals
Ryals in the Barracks
Alps in the fog
Limey Miles, Aerovan hits Dubendorf airfield
Lockheed Lodestars
Frog Plane, Frog Fraulein, and a Coupla of Frogs
Standing in front of the B-17 from the left are:Hoenes, Theissen, and Tunison
Coublay Airdrome France
P-39 Bell Airacobras With Four-Bladed Props
P-39 Bell Airacobras With Four-Bladed Props
General De Gaulle's Private Avro York Aircraft
General De Gaulle's private Avro York Aircraft
The Sidewalk Cafe in Paris
Larc De Triomphe - Les Champs Elysees Paris
Building at Paris France
Eppes Cutting Bob Applehances Hair
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Alley-oop
Zimmerman, Shaw, and Greider
Home in the 328th Air SV SquadronEarl Courtney standing in the Window
Flying to Dubendorf, Switzerland, on September 3, 1945,Coming in over the French Alps
The final approach to Dubendorf Airfield
C-87 Liberator Crash Piled up where the black X is indicated
The Crash of United States Army Air Force Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express in Dubendorf at Zurich Switzerland on Aug 18, 1945.at 1500 Local Time, Aircraft Registration is 44-39213. On touchdown at Dübendorf Airport, the right main gear collapsed, causing engine number four to hit the runway surface. The captain increased power and decided to go around.
During the initial climb, the aircraft s...
During the initial climb, the aircraft stalled and crashed in flames in a wooded area located some 550 meters northwest of Hangar #2. Four crew members were killed while two others were injured. James B.
Tunison USAAF from BAD1 at Burtonwood En...
Tunison USAAF from BAD1 at Burtonwood England was assigned to Dubendorf in the Scrapping of American Aircraft at the time of the Crash, he states that the 4 Crew Killed were Technical Sergeant Case, Technical Sergeant Holt, Captain Neisser, and Captain Smith.Remains of the C-87 Liberator that crashed at Debendorf Switzerland
Remains of the C-87 Liberator that crashed at Debendorf Switzerland
Photo taken in 1945 of the inside of Zurich Railway Station
Williams and Shope with the new Dog Prime Minister Attlee
Zimmy and Greider
B-24 at Burtonwood headed for the States in August 1945
North American P-51 Mustangs at Burtonwood Coming in for Salvage in their last Flights Peeling off
The first P-51 coming into Land
One P-51 Down
They Ain't yours no more Lieutenant
Vivi Section
25 Krauts and 5 Japs Colonel Landers P-51 Mustang
No put-put up front
Flares Fired Between Hangars 'J' and 'K'
Flares Fired on the 'Airfield'
'Bob Clapp & Bobbie Moddrell' in the electrical workshop
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Bellies in on Runway 09'McCracken' is on top of the P-47
Clearing the P-47 off Runway 09
'Buck Fry' in the Federal C-2 Truck
'Kinyon' on the wing of a 'Grumman F6F Hellcat'
'Grumman Flying Boat'
'Grumman Flying Boat'
Boeing B-17 Maintenance on Engine Number 4
'Tunison' in a 'C-87 Cockpit'
Playing Casino on K-Rations in a 690From the Left are:Tunison, Hoenes, and Theissen
Quai-Lake Zurich
From the Left are:Hoenes, Theissen, & Tunison standing in front of a B-17
'I am Reddy Too'Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Der Amerikan Und Der Schweizer Fraulein
High in the Alps
