Yeah my friend's grandpa is alive today. Also I remembered my great uncle fought in WWII, but I'm not sure if he fought on D-Day. He was a pilot I believe.

Pilot? God-Dam cool man! Tell me more... do you know what he fly b-17 thunderboolt? what, tell me!!!

ho fight on the omaha beach on the d-day.

Nope but my friend's grandfather fought in the air or was a paratrooper that fought as part of the same attack!

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I really don't know too much about it, I'll try to find out more for you guys.

Thats cool man, do hi have eny medals of stuff?

My grandfather stormed the beach at Okinawa and a number of small islands

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My grandfather is still alive. But I can't even imagine how nasty it was, him being a medic and all. He had to help people with limbs blown off, bullet holes, everything.

medics are cool... http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/smile.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ww2planesfan:
Pilot? God-Dam cool man! Tell me more... do you know what he fly b-17 thunderboolt? what, tell me!!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are your refering to the P-47 "Thunderbolt" (which is a fighter), or the B-17 "Flying Fortress" (which is a bomber)? You seem to have combined the names.

I'm guessing he meant the P-47 Thunderbolt...

although my grandpa didnt fight in st.lo, he did lots of hedgerow fighting

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My Grandfather fought there as a Medic.

My great-grandad was at D-Day but I'm not sure where, all I know is that he was in a landing craft and everyone aboard it apart from him was killed when a shell hit it. He said most of them were decapitated, and it was the most horrific thing he'd ever seen.

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welcome to the boards chris

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Thanks, I got rid of that useless stuff in my sig now.

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"Ohhh the Germans are mad at me I'm so scared oh the Germans! Uhoh the germans are coming to get me oh don't let the germans come after, they're so big and strong."

My granfathers good freind went to omaha and lived to tell about it.. He told my grandfather that he saw some1 get their whole gut shot out before he himself gets shot in the leg and passes out..

my great-gramps fought on omaha beach as a sargeant.

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Did all of these relitives live? I mean my friends grampa was killed storming the beach. never asked about the details, but my grampa stormed some of those Pacific beaches, you know the ones on those pretty islands. He never saw much action though. Good for him.

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I mean two different planes.I wrote pretty fast so i didn't remember the , sign.