American troops reach the States after WW2 ends in Europe
Toronto. Our past president and friend Les Jones sent me this interesting photograph from the Rare Historical Photos website showing American troops arriving home on the Queen Elizabeth. Les is both a sports photographer and an author.
I had an uncle in WW2. He landed in Canada by boat. The journey home continued by train to the CNE grounds in Toronto where we picked him up for the final ride home. He said he was sea sick going to the war and coming back home.
Visit this site to see other photos and read about the troops arriving back in the States. I just finished Erik Larson’s book “The Splendid and the Vile”. Larson makes use of copious quotes from the early war years to follow Churchill and his family from pre war 1939 to Pearl Harbor with an epilogue to carry the tale to post war. The book hits home on just how much was owed to the American participation, albeit a bit late.
