03-27-2006, 01:32 PM
Jim Hennessey: Small world ? I also was in Paris for VJ day and arrived on a 5 day
R&R just a day prior to VJ day. It sure was one wide open town for a few days with
the celibrations. I stayed at the Hotel Trans Atlantic along with many other G.I.'s..
Was in a subway car (Metro ??) and heard a lot of civilians cheering, one had a newspaper and I could read the BIG headlines "Finne Le Guerre" . This news meant
I had survived the war and no chance of a trip to the PTO. Thank God. Had enough
in the ETO. Then just waiting to go home to NJ.