War’s End

Aside from the moral dilemmas faced at war’s end, there was the practical issue of how to get home and what to do in the meantime. The Army’s answer was to set up temporary universities for the soldiers’ education while waiting for shipment home. Chaplain McDonald was assigned to the Biarritz Army University, where he performed his usual duties and took many weekend excursions to other places in Europe. Finally, in March 1946, Frederick received orders for return to the U.S. Nearly nineteen months after arriving in England and serving his country in the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, he was going home.