Arnold and Newlin: Dortmund, May 1970

Before we head back to Denmark and Sweden, the final stop in West Germany is Dortmund. We see a building that looks as if it was patched from the bullet holes of World War II.

our Volvo with the Dortmunder Actien brewery in the background

Dortmund building

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Arnold's Story: November 16, 1950

Bill writes to his son Arnold with a $100 check enclosed. We see mention of an excursion to Portland, Maine, back in late September, when Bill visited Arnold in Boston.

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Arnold's Story: September 23, 1949

In his fifties age-wise, Bill is at a sweet spot in life where his business efforts have worked out extremely well, so that no longer have financial worries at home or at work. His family is staying on top of their health issues, they have renovated their house in Glendale to be a "modern home" and the family can now enjoy the good things in life.

His company moved from 136 Liberty Street around the corner to 6 Church Street, into a building that no longer exists on account of the World Trade Center complex.

Like his younger brother Arnold, Leonard wants to got to medical school but is not confident he will get in (in part due to mediocre grades from college before the war and in part due to challenges from his current undergraduate studies). Bill urges Arnold to give Len a pep talk to encourage him.

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Arnold's Story: February 1946 Japan and Korea

It appears they visited Tachikawa Airfield or departed from there for Korea for his next post. The primary defense of Tokyo, Tachikawa also produced fighters, troop carriers, and bombers, and was also the site of imperial technical schools. It was subjected to intense bombing by the U.S. Army Air Force near the end of World War II and ultimately rendered inoperable. The U.S. rehabilitated the airfield and designated it as a transport base, providing transportation for passengers and cargo in the Tokyo Area. It served as an air base for the U.S. through the Japanese occupation, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam Conflict before being returned to the Japanese government in 1977.

Fritz Finley, February 1946, at a U.S. Army Air Force base in Korea

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Arnold's Story: October 16, 1945

Although World War II is technically over, Arnold is now posted to Camp Pinedale near Fresno, California. He mentions his stay at home (by which he certainly means Glendale), so perhaps that stay included the visit to Mount Wilson. 

Suntan pants and shirts are trousers and shirts of lightweight tan or khaki fabric that make up the summer uniform of some branches of the military.

There are no more letters from 1945 — a gap in the record. The next information from Arnold shows him in Japan in early 1946, then moving on quickly to Korea, where he will spend several months.

I could not figure out the date of this black and white photo; it looks to be in a desert. Perhaps it is from the San Joaquin Valley, with the Sierra Nevada Mountain foothills in the background.

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Arnold's Story: December 15, 1944

We see from Ralph Winger's letter that a lot of the Caltech guys are in and out of MIT, and mostly in radar school.

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Arnold's Story: October 2, 1944 Mrs Hall

A letter from Mrs. Elmer Hall with news of her son Elmer Hall, Barbara Painter, and others. 

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Arnold's Story: September 30, 1944

Al Grote writes with news of his personal life and of classmates from Caltech.

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Arnold's Story: September 9, 1944

Elmer E. Hall writes from McCloud, California, with news about some of Arnold's friends and acquaintances from the lumber camp, though I think Arnold was really friends with his son Elmer.

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Arnold's Story: July 29, 1944

While Arnold was in college, he spent his summers working at a lumber camp. He used to keep his scratchy wool plaid lumberjack shirt in his closet into the early 1980s, and I think each of his sons wore it at some point until we got too big for his shirt. Arnold had a slim build, but none of his sons were so slight of build, so by age 14–15 we had already gotten too large to wear it. I assume that McCloud is the location of that lumber camp; perhaps it was the famed McCloud River Lumber Company he worked in.

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