[Captain Bunny]

my grandad of my dads side was a forrestry comisioner, and so was too important to be made to sign up.

my grandad of my mums side was a joiner, and he built war ships.

my great uncle on my dads side is the only relative ive been told of who saw combat. tail gunner in a stirling bomber. was shot down twice. first time the tail end was shot off and it landed in a tree with my great uncle stll inside.

second time he and the crew were ordered to bail out over the english channel of their badly shot up plane, the pilot had a face full of flak, and the co-pilot was badly injured but they kept the plane flying long enough to reach the channel, before it crashed. pilot and co pilot died but saved the crew. the pilot was awarded the posthumous Victoria Cross. (medal of honor in american terms)
i only found all this out after my great ncle died a few years ago, but i wish i had known when he was alive, though my dad said he didnt like to talk about his experiences.

my grandpa on my dad's side was killed during the battle of the bulge from tank shrapnel, my grandpa on my mother's side was a bridge builder during the Battle of Guadlcanal. He died shortly after I was born cry: A bunch of my other family members were in wars, like my father. He was in the 1st Calvary divison and was an artillery guy. He made it up to Captain before the war ended. He once had a grenade go off right by his ear, he still cant hear that well out of it today. He has a lot of medals he got over in Vietnam, i might show them to you

[Whatada]

Grandfather on dad's side: Engineer and top turret gunner on a b-17 bomber that completed it's 25 missions in France and returned home. He died from inhaling the fumes from a fluid they used to clean the engines out.

Step grandfather: b-17 also. I think he was either a ball turret gunner or a waist gunner, I'm not sure. He was in Italy. Still alive.

Interesting story with my grandfather, he took his vest off of himself and incidentally it landed on his foot, later a piece of flak ripped through the flooring and imbedded itself in the flak vest. If the vest hadn't been there he probably would have to have it amputated, for he said the piece of flak was very large.

[Whatada]

Oh, and my Grandfather was a tech-sergeant and my step Grandfather was a buck sergeant.

[Old Reliable]

grandfather,- Captain Butler of the 9th Medical Battalion, served in

Operation Torch
Sicily
DDay
Huertgen Forest
Bulge (Ardennes)
Remagen

[Maplegyver]

my gandpa was a polish sharpshooter
(so my mom says)

[McCoy 03]

Why would your mom lie?

[Tripper]

[quote="Old Reliable":bb9c1]grandfather,- Captain Butler of the 9th Medical Battalion, served in

Operation Torch
Sicily
DDay
Huertgen Forest
Bulge (Ardennes)
Remagen[/quote:bb9c1]

Huertgen Forest? Far out, not much info on that battle out there.....Any stories?

[NiteSnipe]

my Great Uncle was killed in France and another other one was killed Belguim and 3 of my other great uncles wer in Omaha, Japan, and one was in Alaska for guarding something, my granpa was in the airforce and he never told me what he did.

[NiteSnipe]

* only the 2 in France and Belguim wer killed. the one in japan was injured and sent home because they got word of the other family casulties. the one in omaha survived and the one in alaska survived also

[CaP bUsTa]

my grandpa was a captain in the 101st airborne. He participated in D-day, Markent Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge before he was finally wounded for the 2nd and 3rd times in Bastogne which put him out of the war. My grandpa has a bronze star and 3 purple hearts. And he still has his thompson and a luger he took off a German, and we get to keep them, the government cant take what they dont know about.

[Tripper]

Originally Posted by NiteSnipe

* only the 2 in France and Belguim wer killed. the one in japan was injured and sent home because they got word of the other family casulties. the one in omaha survived and the one in alaska survived also

*Sniff, Sniff*

I smell a fanboy raping a certain film screenplay.

[Zap. USMC]

Both Grandfathers served in WWII, and a Step Grandfather.

Great Uncle served in Korea.

[.:]CF[:.Hybrid Goose]

My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. He was a mechanic and they had just pulled into the dock and the ship in the current slot they were going to moved where his ship was. Ironically that other ship was the first to get hit... He survived. He was given an accomadation for shooting down a plane...i'm not sure if it was a bomber or a torpedor or what, but I know he did...I've seen the medals and I've heard his story.

He never spoke about it until the movie came out we took him to go see it and he was in tears after it was over. He explained how when they had to try to get guys out of sunken areas. He told me about opening airlocked places with dead bodies hitting them everywhere.

My grandfather is my idol...he was the reason I went into the military.

[Old Reliable]

i personally dont know much about Huertgen, I haven't really read my grandpa's memoirs, it is pretty sad I am that lazy