After he came home, Mr. Brady, who had grown up in Philadelphia’s Swampoodle and Tioga sections and graduated from the old Northeast High School, settled in Olney and decades later moved to the Northeast.
He finished his education at Temple University, earning a bachelor’s degree in business in 1949. Eventually, he started a career in public relations, working for Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania and AT&T for a total of 37 years before retiring in 1986.
He never spoke of the war. No one in his family, not even his wife, Connie, knew of what he had witnessed. In the AT&T news release announcing !tis retirement, some of his World War II experiences are mentioned. But its only reference to the closing days of the war were of his flying “the last combat missions against the Japanese homeland” and of his being “one of the first Americans to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II.”