were your gradparents in WW2? - Page 5

White Rabbit · 04-06-2003, 10:27 PM

good stories,

i found out that my great grandpa server in the spanish-american war
and my great great grandpa served in the american civil war, he kept a journal of his time in the war and we still have his journal!! its amazing i have a piece of american histiory right in my house cool:

Himmler · 04-06-2003, 10:30 PM

noone that i know served in ww2

Tripper · 04-07-2003, 02:06 AM

I've told this story a million times on these forums, but just to keep this respectful thread going....:

Great Uncle - Served in North Africa and Greece with his brother (My Grandfather) infantry man....Don't know much else more....He died, I'm not exactly sure how.

Grandfather - Captured in Greece and Shot in the foot by a guard in a prison camp, when he thought he was trying to escape. Still alive.

Adopted Great Uncle - Lied about his age, fought in the famed Maori Battalion at Monte Cassino....Just got in as he was half maori. Buried in Italy.

Mpoulos01 · 04-07-2003, 02:36 PM

Engineer, Phillippines.

Simo Häyhä · **Re: were your gradparents in WW2? -** 04-07-2003, 02:39 PM

[quote="White Rabbit":8c1c1]i just wanted to know, my grandpa was in ww2 as a truck supply driver, and he was in d day[/quote:8c1c1]
for the red ball express. he landed on omaha beach on d-day + 3
hes around 80 years old today

Argon · 04-07-2003, 03:53 PM

My Great Uncle(My Grandfather's Brother) was a Navigator in the pacific on a mine sweeper ship. It was a wooden boat! Unfortunately he died when I was young so I never really got to talk to him much about this. I do have one of his duffle bags and his sailor hat, and a couple of maps/navigations charts that he took with him.

My Grandfather worked at Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, CT) making props and engines for US airplanes, during WWII.

Thats my only family connection with WWII.

pest · 04-07-2003, 04:02 PM

I have an uncle that was with the marines that landed at Iwo Jima, among other places.

My mother in law was a school girl in Japan during the war (my wife is 1/2 japanesse). I have asked her about those times a couple of times, but she never really seemed to want to talk about them. The most I could get from her is that one day things were fine, the next they are being tuaght how to fight with spears, then hiroshima, nagasaki and the war is over. All she will say is that times were different then and I didnt want to press her anymore.

Coheed · 04-07-2003, 06:48 PM

yea, my grandpa was in the Navy in WWII. I'm not sure if he actually went into combat but i know he sent and recieved the morse code. He is deaf in his right ear now because it was a combination of the constant clicking in his ars and an artillery shell was fired off when he was standing right next to the gun.