28 August 1945

Following the cessation of hostilities, each US soldier was awarded a number of points based on how long they had been overseas, how many decorations they had received, how many campaigns they had taken part in, and how many children they had (Source: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/points-system-us-armys-demobilization). In a letter to Elizabeth, postmarked 28 August 1945, Kenneth expressed optimism about soon returning home but he also warned Elizabeth not to get her hopes up "too high." Kenneth departed Europe from Southampton, England, and arrived back in the United States in New York on 12 November 1945.

World Events: Representatives of the German churches are allowed by the Allied Control Council in Berlin as the first group of persons to freely travel to all four occupation zones of Germany. Also on this date, following a firefight with British soldiers near Lüneburg, SS General Hans Killin, a close confidant of former Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, is arrested. Source: https://chroniknet.de/extra/was-war-am/?ereignisdatum=31.10.1945.