my grandfather served during ww2 and in korea . he was in normandy and in africa during ww2 . although he never admitted it , my grandmother believed he had a couple of little lady friends in france . another thing he said was that he supposedly controlled a prisoner camp that held germans and that he has pictures of one of the german leaders , i forgot his name . ill try to get more info later, about his rank and other stuff

My grandpa was in the Polish army. He was attacked by Ukraninans by surprise. Then he was captured my the Germans and worked in a coal mine. Hmmm... my whole family was somehow involved in the war. My uncle was a patrizan. He got shot across the chest. My other uncle stole a backpack from a Wermacht soldier. He got free pijamas, and some books about architecture. My greatgrandpa fought in World War 1 for the Austrians.

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My grandfather died in a KZ.......

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My grandmas brothers were in all the world wars. Funny thing that they were all in the navy. Only story i heard was a story about my great Uncle Alfonso. He was a AA gun feeder on the... Yorktown i think it wuz... They told him never to look up, if he looked up he would run because he would see those Kamikazi pilots comming right for him
Anyway during an attack he looked up, paniced and abandoned his job. When he look back that Kamikazi had slammed right into his post and bout 10 men were killed.. He went nutz after that.
When he came home he never spoke, one time he was sitting on the couch and my grandma heard a plane coming and covered her ears and head, he looked over at her and said " You should have been where i was" and thats the only thing he ever said..

the german prisoner was Hermann W. Goering . i dont think my grandfather was really "in charge" of the prison camp , that could just be my dad exaggerating . but my grandfather was a captain during ww2 and retired as a major .

my grandfather during ww2 was a Major sergeant in the rangers, 1 st batallion, and even trained with the second, but was transferred to the army because his money was the only support for his mother. He landed on d-day +3 and fought throughout the early normandy campaign, he even saved one guy who had hus legs blown off after my grandfather caught him sleeping on his post and sent him to a hot spot. My grandfather also blew up a tiger tank on his own with a bazooka, in the tracks after it killed much of his platoon. He was wounded pretty bad by some shrapnel and sent back to england and awarded a medal of bravery. He is still alive today and visited normandy and other areas where he fought about 2 years ago.

My grand father die before I was born. My dad told me that he was a sniper, I guess that explains why me and my dad both have really steady hands (he's a computer graphic artist who has the steadiest hand I've ever seen in free-hand drawing and I... well I own in FPS!)

I think Candystraw and badscript said somethng about 30th post you become IBM-compatiable, seeing that Hell-Angel is at 28 and I as of this moment is at 29, I'll give it a shot and see if I became the second IBM-compatiable guy after Candy.

I hate Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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IBM-PC COMPATIBLE YAYYYYY lol, one more after this

how was everyones memorial day? mine was great, just wondering

ya me and candy and phos, I am so proud =)

wow, kaiser thats some story, can you imagine missing death by that much!

Well don't be to mad at my great grandfather. Well he was recuited for the Germans during World War 2. Mainly he was forced to or go into a concnetration camp. So he joined and left my great grandma. He was posted on the Eastern front in Stalingrad and sent lots of letters to my great grandma telling her how the Russians where tempting them in Winter on how warm it was in there houses/bunkers and how good there food was. Well one day my great grandpa was consideried MIA. I think he wasnt killed just got captured or went off hiding someplace.

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"For the burned cities and villages; for the deaths of our children and our mothers; for the torture and humiliation of our people; I swear revenge upon the enemy… I swear that I would rather die in battle with the enemy then surrender myself my people and my country to the Fascist invaders. Blood for blood! Death for death!" - Russian War Oath

My Grandpa was a medic during the 2nd world war and faught in some south pacific islands sometime around 1942,(watch the movie The Thin Red Line and you will know what i'm talking about). When the U.S. casualties were low, he was ordered to scope out fox holes and burn any japanese out with flame throwers and grenades.

My grandfather was a fighter pilot. The army wanted him to train other pilots, but he wanted to fly in the war. They told him that if he transferred to the war he'd have to fly cargo and passenger planes, so he put in for a transfer and that's what he did throughout the war.

He never talked about the war much, and died almost 12 years ago, so I can't ask him any more.

My Grandpa (mothers side)was a Military Policeman in WW2. He didnt see any action except for on the homefront here in Australia rounding up drunk Soldiers and Sailors, hehe. He's got some good stories, And I'm glad he's around still to tell me of the "good old days". My other Grandpa (obviously fathers side) fought in Papua New Guinea, I think. My dad hasnt said much about it. But I know he got some medals and I think was killed in action over there. I'm following in my Grandfathers footsteps and joining the Army next year. I'm looking forward to it.


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Aletoledo: I know, it wuz soo close, thats wut drove him nutz.. He felt responsible for those men.

Also my grandpa on my moms side wuz a MP in the states. He had some great stories of drunken Americans. There were also German prisoners kept there but they were allowed to go to some of the parties. My granpa said the Jerry's would usually stick together and never say anything to any1. They would be all quiet.. My grandpa also told me of when around 2oclock in the morning they would bring in all the crazy Sgts and Lieutenants from France. "It was a pitiful sight" he said, those men were shaking and all shellshocked.

The only war story he had was when one of his freinds had been wounded in OMAHA! He came back and told the story to my grandpa. All that wounded recruit remebered was getting off the boat, an explosion blowing him sideways, his sgt screaming something, and another guys whole torso getting ripped apart by machinegun fire, then he remebers heat in the leg and passing out

LOL Phosphoric and H-A, welcome to "da club". http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/wink.gif

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Shroom : aww that sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that.

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My grandfather (Mom's side), Johhny Borden, served in the 9th Army Air Corps in Italy during the war. He wanted to fly on the B17 but because of a perforated ear drum the docs wouldn't let him fly.
One of his cousins was killed on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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Thank you U.S. WWII combat veterans

Johnny Borden that is...

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My grandpa fought for the "Wehrmacht" because he was german http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/smile.gif. He never talked about his experiences in war until one year before he died he startet to tell me all about his time in war and his life after that. My grandpa really had luck : one time he had to await his command where to go - Russian Front or somewhere else - and finally he was sent to Italy. In Italy he experienced funny things and he even had a girlfriend there http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/smile.gif. But 1945 he had to help defending a german city, i guess it was "Heilbronn": he and his compagnion were crouching at a window and observing the street.Some minutes later American soldiers appeared down on the street and my grandpas compagnion started firing on them. A few seconds later the window broked and bullets destroyed the whole room ; they were only lying on the floor, hoping not to get hit and stay alive. In another scene he mentioned they were sitting in a whole. Next to them an US tank and some US soldiers were holding position. The german sergeant next to my grandpa dared to look out of the whole and fell down. headshot.
My grandpa even got the rank "Kompanieführer", so he had to lead about 150 soldiers. I guess he wasnt too happy about that http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/frown.gif
In the end of the war my grandpa became prisoner. He was glad to be prisoner of the Americans http://www.pcgamers.net/ubb/smile.gif because there he could survive.

My Grandma's Uncle (I don't know what he is to me) was a "Desert Rat" in WW2. He brought back a Luger, a German Iron Cross (a bit dishonourable- corpse raiding), a swastiker and a little wooden camel (don't know where that came from)

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My grandfather, Harold Chadwick was in the USArmy in WW2. He was definately a very comemorated troop. His group had traveled through Germany and France.

He had killed several Nazi Generals (Nazi Generals used to where these very large silver shields on their chests to signify ranks...my granfather had 5 of them)...

He even received a letter from Mother Thereasa which I have seen. Apparently his group had entered into a small town in Germany which was leveled...but several small children and women were alive...so his group, fed, and offered medical aid to these people...saving lives. Mother Thereasa got wind of this and wrote his group a letter..each received a letter adressed by name.

He died about 4 years ago of heart conditions...and in his memory we had created a very large collage with all of his medals and honors...

I thank him for his efforts and fighting for us...if he hadnt...I could very well be speaking German by now...

great story

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My grandfather died in a KZ.......

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Xion:
I thank him for his efforts and fighting for us...if he hadnt...I could very well be speaking German by now...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Wouldn't that be a shame !?

I think what you meant to say was that you were very happy the allies won the war, otherwise we'd all be living in a fascist world devoid of all but caucasian (non-jewish) cultures and liberty ?

Of itself, german is a beautiful language and should not be frowned upon because of a tyrannical dictator (what a redundancy)..


Sorry... my rant ends here. <--

hahaha

SoLiDUS

i think its a figure of speach . nothing more nothing less . i dont think when people say that , they are bashing the german language . its just like saying if mike tyson didnt spend all that time in jail , he wouldnt have learned to bite people's ears off and want to eat children .