[Grabowski]

i mean, nazis are pretty bad, but when it comes down to it, they are the same as us.

[Bürgen]

yes the 'nazis' were bad, but only 10% of the population of germany ever belonged to the NSDAP, what the nazi party was actually called in germany. And of those, very few advocated the nurumberg laws (the ones that took citizenship away from jews and 'undesireables'). So you cant really say that the natzies are bad. 99.999% of the guys out there were fighting for the same reasons as the US, to preserve their homeland.

If you wanna see bad, check out what stalin did to his people.

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[mikecs18]

here's a story or two. My dad has a freind who's dad was in the infantry. He said one time he and a sniper and the rest of a squad were watching two germans carrying messages back and forth between two german squads in a field. About the fifth time they crossed the field the sniper saw they were carrying an mg-42 and ammo. The sniper shot one nazi and then all of the sudden a panzerfaust rocket exploded about two feet in front of the sniper and blew him apart. during all this he had his binocculers out watching so when he put them back in his pocket he felt something in his pocket. He reached in and found the snipers hand in there.

[mikecs18]

here's a story or two. My dad has a freind who's dad was in the infantry. He said one time he and a sniper and the rest of a squad were watching two germans carrying messages back and forth between two german squads in a field. About the fifth time they crossed the field the sniper saw they were carrying an mg-42 and ammo. The sniper shot one nazi and then all of the sudden a panzerfaust rocket exploded about two feet in front of the sniper and blew him apart. during all this he had his binocculers out watching so when he put them back in his pocket he felt something in his pocket. He reached in and found the snipers hand in there.

[mikecs18]

I also got another story. My grand-uncle charlie flew a b-17 flying fortress during the war. On one of his missions his plane lost its wing so he and his crew had to bail out. He and all his crew was captured. While he and thausends of other captors were being marched through an abandoned town the polish resistance rescued him. What they did was they quickly whipped the door open of a house as the captured allies were marching passed and grabbed a bunch of the and brought the inside the house were the resistance was staying. Charlie and some of his crew were brought back into allied terratory and he was back flying in a new plane within the week.

[Kaiser]

My grandmas brothers both were in ww2 and so was my grandpa.. My great Uncle Alfonso was on the USS Missouri i think.. I dunno.. he was an AA gun feeder.. Anyway they told him never too look up, and during a Kamikazi attack he decided to look up. He must have seen planes comming right for him becuzz he abandoned his post and ran, about 15 seconds later the plane had hit the AA gun where he was.. He never forgave himself for that, so he went nutz.. He never talked at all to any1.. NEVER after he came home.. When i was at a family renunion a plane had flew overhead and my grandpa covered her ears and ducked a lil bit.. Uncle Alfonso turned to her with a blind look and said "You should have been were i was" and never said anything again...

My other Uncle went AWOL after a battle in New Guienea and moved to Australia.. LOL he had about 6 beautiful Australian women on his nutz too. When he came home he was pretty normal. He showed me some of the chics pictures but never spoke of the battle

My Grandpa was an MP.. It was pretty fun from wut he told me. His freind went to Omaha and survived but was wounded. When he got wounded they transfered him to where my Grandpa was staying back here in the States.. He told him about the landing.. "I remember getting off the boat.. Trippin over a leg (dont know if it was attached or not) The Sergeant yelling something.. A guy getting his stomach shot and his bowels pouring out, then heat in his leg and passing out..

[Von Paulus]

This isn't WW2, but a guy my dad went to scouts with went to Vietnam, he was a gunner in a "Crusader" or "Centurion" tank (or something like that), they came under fire, and ran out of ammo quickly for the main gun (beer took up quite alot of space), so his friend was pegging at Viet Cong with their Machinegun while the others tried to get more ammo (this tank was designed so that the turret had to be on a 90' angle to be able to access the emergency ammunition), but, when he eventually got the ammo, a Viet Cong AT rocket exploded into the side of the tank, metal flew everywhere, killing the driver and most of the crew, While filling dad's friends back with so much shrapnel you wouldn't believe, but he survived, and was able to stay alive until a rescue party came 2 hours later...Unfortunatley, his left arm needed to be amputated, he died about 2 years later.....

[Macchi]

my grandfather was in the 2nd Ranger Batalion in France in the Middle of the war......

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[t_style]

I believe it was during Winter War between Russia and Finland, when a Finnish soldier and his squad took over a Russian AT-gun. The optics of the gun were broken, but this guy figures out that he can aim the gun by looking through the barrel of the gun and then quickly reloading and firing. Although this sound very unreliable, they took out five Russian tanks in an hour or so with that broken AT-gun. I believe he received a Mannerheim cross (which is the highest Finnish recommendation in the army) after that day.

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