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    • Sep 6, 1945
    The Los Angeles Times reports Gene Autry has returned to California at the close of a USO tour that saw him perform for more than a million G.I.s in the Pacific theater
    Sep 23, 1945
    Gene Autry's "Melody Ranch" radio show returns to the airwaves, two months after he ended his three-year military service
    Nov 30, 1945
    Following the end of World War II, Fred Maddox is discharged from the military, beginning the post-war reassembly of The Maddox Brothers & Rose
    Dec 15, 1945
    Lonnie Wilson, of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, ends his enlistment with the U.S. Navy. He worked as a radar technician in the South Pacific during World War II
    Dec 21, 1945
    Woody Guthrie, stationed in Las Vegas, is discharged from the Army, just months after his song "Oklahoma Hills" became a hit for his cousin, Jack Guthrie
    Jan 6, 1946
    Grandpa Jones is discharged after a two-year stint in the Army
    Jan 20, 1946
    Jack Anglin, of Johnnie & Jack, ends his World War II military service
    Jan 21, 1946
    Skeets McDonald returns from military service, where he's served as a medic, the owner of a bronze star
    Apr 3, 1946
    Fiddler Tommy Jackson is discharged from the Army after two years of service. Within a year, he's playing on country sessions, ultimately dotting hits by Hank Williams, Red Foley, Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb, among others
    Jun 5, 1946
    Harold Bradley ends a two-year military stint. He goes on to become an essential guitarist in the acclaimed "A-team," playing on such hits as Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and John Anderson's "Swingin'." Bradley joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001



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