Private Jim Work shipped off to Europe in April of 1945 on the USS Mount Vernon and then traveled by train car to Stolberg as part of the ‘Replacement Depot’. He traveled around with his unit, 14th Infantry Unit, until the war ended in Europe on May 8th then the troops began training to transfer to the Pacific Theater. Before any of them were finished training the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrendered. The winter of 1945-46 Work spent his time in Sternberg.
During his time off him and his buddies would go to Garmisch, to ski and sightsee often catching the 5:20AM Milk Train to be back in time for 7:00AM formation. Many soldiers would travel to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go ski on the Zugspitze mountain. They would stay at the Third U.S. Army rest center and the Red Cross Club would provide food, drink and entertainment for the …show more content…
Army Reserve and enrolled in Virginia Military Institute. He graduated in the spring 1950 with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 1951 he married Arlene Hall. The couple traveled back to Europe in 1986 and 1990 and saw the effect the Marshall Plan had on the war torn country he’d left forty years prior. .The Marshall Plan promised to assist in the rebuilding of the physical, economical, and agricultural parts of Europe as well as preserving their cultural heritage, or in short help them back up on their feet While Pvt. Work was in Europe he saw the building he had seen in ruins standing tall and proud, battlefields were now fields of wheat and other grains. And the businesses and arts centers that were struggling to survive were booming with business and patrons. One the dramatic changes was Nurnberg which he had witnessed in 1946 as a pile of rubble and the coming back the buildings were rebuilt but appeared to be as if they were built in the 15th century not a decade
During his time off him and his buddies would go to Garmisch, to ski and sightsee often catching the 5:20AM Milk Train to be back in time for 7:00AM formation. Many soldiers would travel to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go ski on the Zugspitze mountain. They would stay at the Third U.S. Army rest center and the Red Cross Club would provide food, drink and entertainment for the …show more content…
Army Reserve and enrolled in Virginia Military Institute. He graduated in the spring 1950 with a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. In 1951 he married Arlene Hall. The couple traveled back to Europe in 1986 and 1990 and saw the effect the Marshall Plan had on the war torn country he’d left forty years prior. .The Marshall Plan promised to assist in the rebuilding of the physical, economical, and agricultural parts of Europe as well as preserving their cultural heritage, or in short help them back up on their feet While Pvt. Work was in Europe he saw the building he had seen in ruins standing tall and proud, battlefields were now fields of wheat and other grains. And the businesses and arts centers that were struggling to survive were booming with business and patrons. One the dramatic changes was Nurnberg which he had witnessed in 1946 as a pile of rubble and the coming back the buildings were rebuilt but appeared to be as if they were built in the 15th century not a decade