German history, German hunting, trying to solve a question.
I hope a quilter on the board, who is German or Austrian or French can help me with some geography.
In 1946 my Dad was stationed in Germany after the war was over. He was a pilot, but had been grounded as he is red-green color blind and by that time digital instrumentation had come out. He spent the entire war sitting in Orlando, Florida teaching other boys how to fly and how to take apart a jet engine. He would volunteer for the front every morning, he felt so guilty he could not go. But they needed him here to teach more pilots and mechanics. His brother, Carl, was a civilian but taught the Canadian boys how to fly in Tulsa, OK.
After the war was over, he was the officer (Lt. Col.) who was in charge of taking all of the bits and pieces of Nazi planes, and some of our planes that were over in Germany, and blowing them up. Dad was sent to Germany in March of 1946. Mom was pregnant with me.
Dad had a squadron of pilots and they determined where all the planes were, then flew them into a central location, called ordinance (dynamite guys) had them wired up and KaBoom!. Dad cried. He loved airplanes. But the mood at the time was that the bad guys could rise up at any time and we needed to take all the planes from them. They took the props off, the guns off and some of the electronic equipment and then blew up the rest.
During this time, he got a pass and went hunting. He got a Roebuck. I still have the horns. I want to know where did he get this little deer, what forest?
I have all their letters and it is so emotional reading them. I had hoped that he would mention what forest he shot the Roebuck, but I haven't found it so far. You can see from the pile of letters, I have a ways to go.