Going Home

Going home from Marburg replacement depot. Click on the small slideshow going on below to switch to a full size picture. Around May 1946 they decided the army had had enough of me and decided to ship me home, I was sent to Marburg where there was a replacement depot. The slide picture show shows various conditions in the camp. In there area 4 Germans had been killed late in the war and their graves were still there a year later. The helmets were still there too as you can see. They had not been disturbed all this time. We had inspections and had out equipment laid out. There was still hunger and lack of supplies in Germany a year after the war. The little kids would meet us at the exit of the mess hall and beg for what we didn't eat.

On our way to Bremerhaven we passed the Europa docked there. It stayed there the entire war. I am surprised that there doesn't seem to be a lot of bomb damage from what we see in the pictures. Seems strange to see the lack of damage to Bremerhaven harbor then consider that Dresden, Darmstadt and some other cities were destroyed. Places that had nothing to aid the German war effort. Bremerhaven city was heavily damaged.

We went home on the SS MacAndrew. The ship on the trip back to the US was as crowded as the Queen Elizabeth was going over. Obviously we went to Le Harve by train as I show pictures of our troop train but I don't remember ANY of the details. . The train opposite our train was for German Prisoners released from the Marburg Prison camp,
It's a shame I cant remember more. When I have pictures I can remember something.

Next is on the ship and our time at Ft. Mead Md.

I think the picure at Ft. Dix was the last picture taken before I got home at Ft. Lewis. It was real funny just before we got home the guys had been drinking everything under the sun but just before we got to Ft. Lewis they started throwing everything off the train.

I was discharged on June 4 1946 almost 2 years to the day after I was inducted.