WWII story time

Everybody is asleep, man. Let's have this thread tomorrow. And yeah, my great grandfather killed your countrymen, was captured but then freed.

My great granddad was a communications specialist, a Master Seargent if you know what that means. It's the most elite of the non-officer soldiers.

He originally fought on the American Front, but not sure where, only know about this because he has the medal. But then he was sent to France about a week or so after D-Day, he saw combat but not sure if it was a major battle or a skirmish.

Granddad - RAF radio mechanic for beaufighters
Great-Granddad - Engineering officer on an number of ships, on Cumberland in the battle of The river plate, then sunk off Norway in the early years of the war but survived and served on other ships.

Step-Granddad - died when HMS Dasher blew up .

One was too young, but the other on my mom's side :
>be alsatian
>be german now
>join the Kriegsmarine
>stuff happens
>can't be on boats at some point because is needed on land
>stuff happens
>be captured by russians
I barely read his memoirs so I don't know much about the details

>>79071128

Only great grandparents fought.
One was: the Navy and guided stuff across the Atlantic and delivered stuff to Russia via the arctic north.

The other was in the army fight in Africa and ends up being shrapnel I his leg and had his leg removed.

Wish I know them better

>>79071128
they lived surrounded by communists, were dirt poor and fought for axis to the bitter end (literally entire family)
at the end were exiled, sent to bleiburg, barely survived, the state still fucks us even sometimes in these psot communsit times

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>>79071423
>>79071394
>>79071353
>joining the Navy in the European theatre

Americans, what's a yardmaster?

>>79071514
As I said I don't know much but I think he was drafted

>>79071128
You still better live than a a winner side. It's not fair, why loosers live a better than winners. Aah!

>>79071658
nah, you have it better

>>79071128
Tankman. Grandfa was tankman when russians got him in army.
Now russians said granfa was nazi.

>>79071394
Do you feel French? Or is there a unique Alsatian feel?

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>>79071128
Fell from a tower on top of a nazi gay orgy.

My grandfather was in law school in texas, my other grandfather was a kid growing up in war torn Japan

>>79071128
>Live in Bumfuck, Arkansas in 1942
>Be 23 years old
>Get drafted because muh pearl harbor
>Marry and impregnate a 15 year old in case you die
>Go to Holland and then Germany and shoot at G*rmans
>Get a fuckhuge piece of grenade shrapnel in your left hand and never regain total use of that hand
>Go back to your now 19 year old wife
>The only thing you brought back was some gay knife while your cousin pulled some strings and got to bring back a fucking machine gun
> Run a gas station then die of pneumonia 70 years later

Grandpa's uncle was forced to join the División Azul
He almost died of starvation near Leningrad once, apparently.

>>79071757
I am half-alsatian. The other half is charentais, and I feel french. I've been living 3 years in Alsace and I have family there, so I can tell you, alsatian mostly feel more alsatian than french. They are special. But they still feel they belong to France and are french, they just feel closer to their region.

>>79071854
I heard that Spaniards fought like devils. Very very tough fighters. They'd never surrender

>>79071844
>23 years old
>marry a 15 years old
wew

>>79071890
I imagine he wasn't very enthusiastic about the whole thing.
He was a republican at heart, and had to join to keep the regime from suspecting him

my grands was a travelling jobber.
his only contact with the war was when he told some allied troops where to go in german border territory
Really impressive

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>>79071128
A finnish friend apparently had a grandfather that fought in both the winter war and continuation war

>>79071844
What knife was it?

My grandad was a machine gunner in Austria. During a fight he was wounded with a piece of shrapnel, got decommissioned afterwards.
He really didn't like to speak about the war. Only once he told a story how he went to a forest to gather some wood for a campfire to make a dinner and met a german with a rifle. He himself had a fully automatic PPSH. The exchanged fire for a little bit. My grandad counted that the german fired five shots (probably all he got). He then yelled something in german and ran away. My grandad didn't chase him and returned to the camp.

Oh and his then-future wife, my grandmother, nearly got killed by the germans when she was picking mushrooms near the occupied airfield and accidentally cut german phone line. They spared her because she was just 8 years old.

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>Be a peaceful Moldovan peasant from a small village in the middle of a forest
>Romanians come by during the fascist period, but they don't recruit you since they are sceptical about Moldovan loyalty since they've lived in the Russian Empire for centuries
>Soviets march in changing the regime in Romania
>"Encouraged" to join an infantry rifle division
>Soviet infantry is pretty much a meat buffer on every front
>Somehow manage to carry on all the way to Berlin
>Lose two brothers in the process
>PTSD for the rest of the life
>Couldn't sleep on anything else than a hard bench
>Always carried a rifle on him and slept with it near his side
>Sometimes suddenly screamed during the night due to PTSD and flashbacks
>Managed to live over 90 years
>Rip old man

>>79072037
I know. Your grandfa is Adenauer, hah.

>>79072065
>Oh and his then-future wife, my grandmother, nearly got killed by the germans when she was picking mushrooms near the occupied airfield and accidentally cut german phone line. They spared her because she was just 8 years old.
I always like stories like this because it shows the human side of the war.

my great granddad killed Japs in Burma

>>79072068
he had this in his bedroom?

Bomber pilot
He doesn't talk about what he did but after the war he was a huge pacifist, thought it was the stupidest thing he's ever done

My grandmother's brother was a kid during the war. When the germans came they chose their home as their residence. One night he woke up to take a piss but was too scared to go out at night so he chose the farthest corner to do his dirty deeds.
By the unfortunate coincidence a german soldier was sleeping in that corner. The german turned out to be a nice guy. He just laughed about it and presented the kid, who got scared for his life, a sprats sandwich to calm him down.

>>79072393
which front?

>>79072416
Europe

>>79072329
in the hall outside the bedroom, remember that this is a detached house in a village

>>79071128
Not from my family, but a friend's great grandfather was forced to fight on the fall of Berlin, he told me that if someone didn't wanted to fight, the SS would kill him, anyway, Berlin fell off, he surrendered with a lot of soldiers and americans gave permission to some of them to leave the country, then he get in a ship with a lot of germans and came to South America, he almost die in the trip because lack of food

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>>79072398
real life comedy is best comedy

My grandpa was stationed in Hawaii towards the end of the war and didn't do anything worth talking about, and my grandma was a nurse in the army but I don't think they deployed her anywhere. I have their uniforms though which is kind of cool I guess

What a sad thread

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>>79072555
why?

>>79071128


One of mom's uncles were in SS and died on the eastern front. Another were chef in Buchenwald but """allegedly""" snuck inmates extra food and was freed from any crimes.

>>79072549
>I have their uniforms though which is kind of cool I guess
That's pretty cool. I wish I had my grandpa's uniform but I think one of my uncles have it or maybe he just dumped it since it must have recalled him bad memories

>>79072603
Did he ever talk much about Buchenwald?
Seems like it would've been hell even for the guards to have to work there.

>>79072555
Our forefathers had a meaningful life. They had to survive the world war and then rebuild their country anew.
We on the other hand just sit all day on our asses posting gay anime.

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>>79072820
Yet every single one of them would probably trade those lives for these

>>79071658

Because Germany is and always will be an impressive country and people.

>>79071890

Germany easily fielded some of the best modern military soldier in history.

>>79072555

Why?

>>79071128
yall fucks with farts of iron iii

I'm oldfag. My father was working as a civilian heavy equipment operator in the naval yard at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed it. Saw the bombing and helped in the salvage operation afterwards. Got homesick, quit, and went back to the states. Naval Yard manager was pissed that he quit and reported him to the draft board. Was drafted into the army a couple weeks later. 746th Tank Battalion. Sargent in charge of a mortar squad and a half-track. Landed on Utah beach on D-day. Fought across Europe as part of the Ninth Infantry. Fought for the bridge at Remagen, fought in the Hurtgen Forest. Bronze Star. Made it home alive and in more or less one piece. Had a family and a successful career. Died last May at 94. I loved him and cried when he died. I have his medals and VA flag and the Polish 9mm Radom pistol he carried instead of the issue .45.

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>>79072053
It was a bayonet so I guess it was this one

>>79071918
Like I said, Bumfuck Arkansas in 1942. At least they weren't cousins, as far as I know.

>>79072887
That's just how humans are.
The one's living in peace see their life as boring, and want something exciting. The one's living in war, or something interesting, wish for nothing but peace.

>>79072892
>Germany easily fielded some of the best modern military soldier in history.
The American soldiers were better tbqh
And the Soviets fought with more ferocity.

>>79072945
Did he see any of the planes fly over him before they started attacking?
I had a teacher who knew some people that lived in Oahu during Pearl Harbor. They claim that the Japs waved at them and shit when they were flying in.

Grandpa 1: Fought in Italy, seen/did some shit and never talked about it

Grandpa 2: Stayed in Canada and operated a fuel supply company

>>79072820
An old veteran neighbor of mine who was a good friend of the family always told me how horrible war is.
He once told me that he is really proud of me for being so pacifistic, saying that the world needs more people like me.
I know that bragging with this is really not cool and pretty bitchy but I always took that to my heart and I'm very proud of it.

what do you guys think of this scene?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDwlwXb_wWE

>>79073428
Kid is a moran

>>79073428
It's like that scene from cap America gone wrong

>>79073428
That doesnt work like this

>>79073560
what scene?

>>79072766

I have no idea mom doesn't like talking about any of it, didn't learn about the SS thing until a year ago.

>>79073708
When Tommy lee jones throws the fake grenade in the training camp

one was 3 years old, died in the 90s because of some gay lung disease
the other was born in '46
t. Bulgarian diaspora

https://youtu.be/IS1RB3qvFjc

WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with americans in the comment? Why did this video offend them so much? I don't understand the hate
jesus christ

>>79073897
how do you say WTF in french?

>>79073962
C'est quoi ce bordel ? I guess
Why?

>>79071128
mine was just a store owner yes boring i know
however my grand grandpa in WW1 was about to forced to get into the war by the ottomans but then he managed to immigrate to Canada

>>79074003
merci. i was just wondering

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>>79071128
Maternals side Great-grandpa/nicâpan
>be 23 trapping on the reserve
>conscript injuns to fight for a war that has nothing to do with us
>sent to England in '43 for training and whatnot
>Bren machinegunner
>D-day
>sent in second day of attack as cleanup
>sometime after, sent to front lines in Caen
>absolutley destroyed
>regiment fights across northeastern France into belgium and then into Zeeland Netherlands.
>sometime there, gets laid by Dutch chick and has secret half native half dutch daughter across the world that he never kept up with as far as we know. (Shes probably in her late 70s by now tb h)
>fights on into northwestern Germany
>i think be in Hambürg or somewhere around that at wars end
>have to stay another year till '46 in Germany and England on guard duty before getting shipped back home
>major ptsd and alcohic as he comes back
>quits drinking in the 80s
>hunts and traps for remaining days after war until passed away in 2004

He was a cool guy.
I got a couple of specific "war stories" my grandpas brother told me that my great-grandpa had, if anyones interested?

>>79071547
Somebody who oversees a rail yard.

>>79073897
Nazism is kind of a fad in the U.S. right now.

>>79076655
Go on. I'm reading

Great grandfathers:
>No. 1
Croat seaman. Joined the Yugoslav Partisans. Was eventually captured by the Italians and taken to their concentration camp on Rab until Partisans liberated the camp. Survived.
>No. 2
Croat naval merchant. Had 2-3 ships. One of the ships was taken down by a RAF airplane. Partisans forced him to transport ammo right after the war, but his ship blew up together with him. It was probably an accident, but my grandfather is convinced that some commie rigged it because he traded with Italians during the war.
>No. 3
Bosnian Muslim farmer and carriage driver. Was caught bringing food to his brother who was in the Partisans. Ended up in a concentration camp all the way in Germany, I forgot the name. Some Nazi officer pulled him out of the camp to be his personal servant. Eventually made it back to Bosnia.
>No. 4
Macedonian farmer. Just waited it out, I think.

my grandad killed nazis in ww2 and i'll gladly follow in his footsteps if i have to

>>79073897
Those comments are purely cancerous. Its just war romanticizing retards who can't get their heads around prisoners being executed in war, so they ignorantly spout anti-french memes.

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>>79071128
Great grandfathers:
1.Died in stalingrad, served in the naval infantry. Pic relatde.
2.Survived throught the war as ace pilot ( Don't remember his name) shot down at least 7 JU87
3.Died in 1942
4.Tanker, survived losing his leg

>>79071128
My grandpa was killing nazis in Italy under the Indian army

We still have his gun

>>79071844
>married and impregnated a 15 year old qt

That's lewd anon

>>79072555
Shouldn't have started the war then faggot

>>79071128
Armenian great grandpa got drafted into iranian army but the army was disbanded after the anglo soviet invasion of iran.

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Killed Japs and punched Americans probably

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Other was a transport driver in Northern Finland/Onega/lappland and other was in an mg unit in Karelia.

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>>79071128
I'm from Alicante, in the eastern part of Spain. This was also the last part to be conquered by Franco, and my great grandfather was from a wealthy family so he was forced to fight in Russia against commies.

My great grandfather fought in battle of Vienna. He saved some jeweler and his family from artillery shelling. As a gift this old guy give him golden pocket watch. This is our family heirloom.

>inb4 how many wimminz he raped

>>79084651
>impliying he didn't get the watch looting the jeweler house after he killed him and raped his family

Grandfather fought in the middle east, North Africa and Italy during the war.

I don't know if it's true or not but apparently my grandfather fucked around a lot and had a mistress in Syria so I might have some jihadi/refugee relatives over there.

everyone in my ancestry was a nazi, so I got sterilized last year to not pass my guilt onto another innocent child.

>>79084747
Whatever you say retard. I am proud of him. During 1941 stationed in Belarus, Germans destroy everything. He and his friends from artillery battalion eating leather belts and see dead children bodies from villages in draw-well

>>79071128
my grandfather was in the afrika korp, logistic thing. got arrested by americans 1943, was send to usa in a prison camp. worked as a translator till the end of the war.

the two i know
1. highly educated, joined the partisan movement and fought against mostly croatian nazis, later became hospital director
2. peasant, dragged into army of nazi croatia, survived the war but killed by a bus many years later