This Day in History: 1945-11-06
Sgt. Leroy Russell returned home from Ft. Dix with his discharge that he had received that day after forty months in the U.S. Army. He had spent half of his service in the Middle east Theater of Operations attached to the fifteenth Air Force. On arriving home he was quoted with having said “It’s great to be a civilian again and to be back in dear old Mahwah”. (Bristow)