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<h4>Written By: Ben Cosgrove</h4> <p>When James Maitland Stewart, the oldest child and only son of Alexander and Elizabeth Stewart of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana,_Pennsylvania"> Indiana, Pa</a>., enlisted in the United States Army in 1941, he wasn’t like most privates. For one thing, he was already well into his 30s. For another, he had already been rejected by the military for being too skinny. (The first time around, he was five pounds under the Army’s weight standard for new recruits.) And finally, no other World War II inductee had won a Best Actor Oscar, as Stewart had for his performance as reporter Mike Connor in the 1940 classic, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/"><em>The Philadelphia Story</em></a>.</p> <p>Putting his <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/">Hollywood career</a> on hold to join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps">Army Air Corps</a>—a forerunner to today’s Air Force—Stewart ultimately reached the rank of colonel, making him one of few Americans ever to rise from private to colonel in four years. He flew dozens of combat missions, some as command pilot, on sorties deep into Nazi-occupied Europe, and returned from the war on the <em>Queen Elizabeth</em>, covered in medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal.</p> <p>For the cover story of LIFE magazine’s September 24, 1945 issue, photographer Peter Stackpole followed Stewart as the Hollywood star and war hero returned to his hometown.</p> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870209"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870209" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367731-961x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870209" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367731-961x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart and his dad outside the family hardware store, Indiana, Pa., 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870207"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and Family, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870207" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367681-1024x805.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sits down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sat down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and Family, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870207" decoding="async" desc="Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sits down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367681-1024x805.jpg" title="Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sat down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Thirty-seven-year-old Jimmy Stewart sat down at the table with (clockwise from left) his younger sister Mary, his mother Elizabeth, his father Alexander, and his other younger sister, Virginia, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870208"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870208" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367781-836x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helps clear the table at his parents' house, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helped clear the table at his parents' house, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870208" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helps clear the table at his parents' house, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367781-836x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helped clear the table at his parents' house, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart, home from the war, helped clear the table at his parents’ house, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870210"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart chats with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's Philadelphia Story Oscar on display." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870210" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367861-1024x818.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart chats with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's Philadelphia Story Oscar on display." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="&quot;Jimmy Stewart chatted with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's &quot;Philadelphia Story&quot; Oscar on display."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart chats with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's Philadelphia Story Oscar on display." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870210" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart chats with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's Philadelphia Story Oscar on display." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367861-1024x818.jpg" title="&quot;Jimmy Stewart chatted with George Little, the oldest employee in his father's hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy's &quot;Philadelphia Story&quot; Oscar on display."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">“Jimmy Stewart chatted with George Little, the oldest employee in his father’s hardware store, 1945. Besides all the usual hardware goods, the store also boasted Jimmy’s “Philadelphia Story” Oscar on display.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870211"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart on the phone, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870211" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367871-1024x823.jpg" decoding="async" desc="While his father chats with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart sets up a date to go fishing, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="While his father chatted with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart set up a date to go fishing, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart on the phone, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870211" decoding="async" desc="While his father chats with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart sets up a date to go fishing, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367871-1024x823.jpg" title="While his father chatted with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart set up a date to go fishing, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">While his father chatted with a customer at the hardware store, a uniformed Jimmy Stewart set up a date to go fishing, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870212"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870212" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367741-835x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870212" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367741-835x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father's hardware store, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart on the phone at his father’s hardware store, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870213"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart goes fishing, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870213" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1368141-818x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc='Jimmy Stewart goes fishing with his old friend Clyde "Woodie" Woodward, 1945.' src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title='Jimmy Stewart went fishing with his old friend Clyde "Woodie" Woodward, 1945.'/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart goes fishing, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870213" decoding="async" desc='Jimmy Stewart goes fishing with his old friend Clyde "Woodie" Woodward, 1945.' src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1368141-818x1024.jpg" title='Jimmy Stewart went fishing with his old friend Clyde "Woodie" Woodward, 1945.'/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart went fishing with his old friend Clyde “Woodie” Woodward, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870214"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870214" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367701-1024x736.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870214" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367701-1024x736.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart and friend, Indiana, Pa., 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870215"> <section> <img alt="The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, seen in 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870215" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367651-987x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, seen in 1945. " src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, seen in 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870215" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, seen in 1945. " src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367651-987x1024.jpg" title="The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">The house where Jimmy Stewart grew up in Indiana, Pa., about 50 miles from Pittsburgh, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870216"> <section> <img alt="The movie star and war vet Jimmy Stewart signs autographs for local girls, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870216" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367711-1024x818.jpg" decoding="async" desc="The movie star and war vet Jimmy Stewart signs autographs for local girls, Indiana, Pa., 1945. " src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart signed autographs in Indiana, Pa., 1945."/><noscript><img alt="The movie star and war vet Jimmy Stewart signs autographs for local girls, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870216" decoding="async" desc="The movie star and war vet Jimmy Stewart signs autographs for local girls, Indiana, Pa., 1945. " src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367711-1024x818.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart signed autographs in Indiana, Pa., 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart signed autographs in Indiana, Pa., 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870217"> <section> <img alt="Col. Jimmy Stewart, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870217" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367771-825x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Col. Jimmy Stewart, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Col. Jimmy Stewart, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870217" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Col. Jimmy Stewart, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367771-825x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870218"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and family, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870218" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367851-819x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc='&lt;strong&gt;Caption from LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; "Jimmy kids his father about the old days. His sister Mary (center on swing) is an artist and is married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) is a magazine writer and is married to Artist Alexis Tiranoff, now in the Army."' src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy kidded his father about the old days. His sister Mary (center on swing) was an artist and married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) was a magazine writer and married to artist Alexis Tiranoff, who was in the Army."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and family, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870218" decoding="async" desc='&lt;strong&gt;Caption from LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; "Jimmy kids his father about the old days. His sister Mary (center on swing) is an artist and is married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) is a magazine writer and is married to Artist Alexis Tiranoff, now in the Army."' src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367851-819x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy kidded his father about the old days. His sister Mary (center on swing) was an artist and married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) was a magazine writer and married to artist Alexis Tiranoff, who was in the Army."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy kidded his father about the old days. His sister Mary (center on swing) was an artist and married to a chaplain in the Navy. His other sister Virginia (left) was a magazine writer and married to artist Alexis Tiranoff, who was in the Army.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870219"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870219" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367791-824x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart plays a tune with his sister Virgina, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister Virginia, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870219" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart plays a tune with his sister Virgina, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367791-824x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister Virginia, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart plays the piano with his sister Virginia, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870220"> <section> <img alt="James Stewart looks in his family's hardware store window and spots a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870220" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367671-823x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="James Stewart looks in his family's hardware store window and spots a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="James Stewart looked in his family's hardware store window and spotted a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="James Stewart looks in his family's hardware store window and spots a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870220" decoding="async" desc="James Stewart looks in his family's hardware store window and spots a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367671-823x1024.jpg" title="James Stewart looked in his family's hardware store window and spotted a model plane he'd built years earlier, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">James Stewart looked in his family’s hardware store window and spotted a model plane he’d built years earlier, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870221"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and stuffed squirrel" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870221" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367801-829x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyes a stuffed squirrel he'd shot years earlier. The creature was only &quot;slightly moldy,&quot; LIFE reported." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyed a stuffed squirrel he'd shot years earlier. The creature was only &quot;slightly moldy,&quot; LIFE reported."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and stuffed squirrel" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870221" decoding="async" desc="In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyes a stuffed squirrel he'd shot years earlier. The creature was only &quot;slightly moldy,&quot; LIFE reported." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367801-829x1024.jpg" title="In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyed a stuffed squirrel he'd shot years earlier. The creature was only &quot;slightly moldy,&quot; LIFE reported."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">In 1945, Jimmy Stewart eyed a stuffed squirrel he’d shot years earlier. The creature was only “slightly moldy,” LIFE reported.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870222"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart and hand puppets, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870222" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367761-812x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Visiting his hometown in 1945, Col. Jimmy Stewart plays with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old. " src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Visiting his hometown in 1945, Col. Jimmy Stewart played with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart and hand puppets, 1945" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870222" decoding="async" desc="Visiting his hometown in 1945, Col. Jimmy Stewart plays with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old. " src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367761-812x1024.jpg" title="Visiting his hometown in 1945, Col. Jimmy Stewart played with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Visiting his hometown in 1945, Col. Jimmy Stewart played with a pair of puppets he made when he was seven years old.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870223"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart entertains some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870223" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367751-858x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart entertains some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart entertained some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart entertains some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870223" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy Stewart entertains some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367751-858x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart entertained some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart entertained some local children, Indiana, Pa., 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870224"> <section> <img alt="Jimmy Stewart takes out his father's horse and shay, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870224" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367821-834x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart takes out his father's horse and shay, 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart took out his father's horse, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Jimmy Stewart takes out his father's horse and shay, 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870224" decoding="async" desc="Jimmy Stewart takes out his father's horse and shay, 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367821-834x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart took out his father's horse, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart took out his father’s horse, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870225"> <section> <img alt="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870225" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367831-805x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;"/><noscript><img alt="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;" caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870225" decoding="async" desc="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;" src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367831-805x1024.jpg" title="Magician Bill Neff wasn't just a friend of Stewart's; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they &quot;took a tour as magicians.&quot;"/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Magician Bill Neff wasn’t just a friend of Stewart’s; he once provided Jimmy with a summer job, when they “took a tour as magicians.”</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870226"> <section> <img alt="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, reads in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870226" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367691-1024x822.jpg" decoding="async" desc="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, reads in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, read in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/><noscript><img alt="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, reads in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870226" decoding="async" desc="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, reads in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367691-1024x822.jpg" title="James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, read in bed at his parents' house, Indiana, Pa., 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">James Stewart, back home after serving in World War II, read in bed at his parents’ house, Indiana, Pa., 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote> <blockquote class="single-image" id="single-3870227"> <section> <img alt="Col. James Stewart: movie star, war hero, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870227" data-lazy-src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367631-811x1024.jpg" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Col. James Stewart: movie star, war hero, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" title="Jimmy Stewart, 1945."/><noscript><img alt="Col. James Stewart: movie star, war hero, Indiana, Pa., 1945." caption="Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock" data="https://www.life.com/people/jimmy-stewart-photos-of-a-world-war-ii-hero-homecoming-1945/block-image" data-id="3870227" decoding="async" desc="&lt;strong&gt;Not published in LIFE.&lt;/strong&gt; Col. James Stewart: movie star, war hero, Indiana, Pa., 1945." src="https://static.life.com/wp-content/uploads/migrated/2012/01/ugc1367631-811x1024.jpg" title="Jimmy Stewart, 1945."/></noscript> <div class="image-info"> <p class="image-caption">Jimmy Stewart, 1945.</p> <p class="image-caption">Peter Stackpole/Life Pictures/Shutterstock</p> </div> </section> </blockquote>