Tunison Album — Volume 7 – Historic Aviation Military

Album 7 – 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. 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

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.Site 6 – Tinker Hall

Paulette and Trudy are sitting on the grass at site 6, Tinker HallThe 3 buildings in the left background are building number 5, which is the 2 dining rooms with the kitchen in the middleThe 2 Barrack huts in the right background are building number 13 at the top and building 25 at the bottom

Paulette and Trudy

USAAF personnel and kitchen staff are having a party for the Americans returning home to the statesideThe party is at Tinker Hall, Burtonwood, England

USAAF personnel and kitchen staff are having a party for the Americans returning home to the statesideThe party is at Tinker Hall, Burtonwood, England.Photo taken using a wide-angle lens

Tinker Hall site 6 farewell party with work staff wearing party hats

The picture you took, remember?

same photo as above

Site 6 Tinker Hall party hats time

What one might classify as being up in the world, up in the mountains, Jim Cook

The photo was taken in AzusaI am not sure what kind of tree it is?But, it is wide enough anyway to serve as a background for yours trulyJim Cook

Kitchen staff at the Red Cross club, Tinker Hall site 6, Burtonwood, England,On the far right, is our Manager Tommie

A party at the Red Cross club, Tinker Hall,Paulette is in the back row, Center

You are always in my heart, I am always in your wallet- wife

Paulette is in France visiting a relative of her mother

Tinker Hall Site 6 kitchen staff and other workersPaulette is 3rd from the left, back rowKathy Griffiths’ Grandmother is standing at the backthe one on the far right, Ann Flaherty [Nee Tarpey]

One Hillman Truck covered with Snow

Bomb Damage

Frank Eppes and Jim Tunison at site 6 in front of a small Hilman truckJim was my Dad, and they met Paulette Starz here at the Red CrossWell, 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