What did your grandparents do during WW2?

I have a great uncle who was in an einsatzgruppen and my relatives refuse to talk about him

>>32537705
All of my grandparents were just kids at the time but my great grandfather served in the army on the home front and my other great grandfather got out of the navy right before the war.

>>32537705
>German resistance
>killed Krauts
>German
>resistance.

How the hell should I know? Old people are gross.

>>32537743
Actually, now that I think about it my dad's great uncle fought at the battle of Iwo Jima. Got shot in the stomach and then proceeded to hunt down and kill the jap who shot him and took his rifle. Spent the rest of his life shitting in a colostomy bag and sleeping in a chair but he always had that damn rifle on the wall.

>>32537705
One of my grandfathers was Army Airborne. He was supposed to jump on Japan but lol nukes. My other grandfather was a Navy engineer and he was in a few battles in the Pacific. Only one he ever told me about was Saipan. I also had a great uncle at Pearl Harbor when the Japs attacked.

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My grandfather was an officer in France, artillery I think. He managed to bring back a Mauser, and I'm pissed af to learn that my dad just sold it. At least he kept his officer's pistol.

Also, don't believe that sole surviving son exemption bullshit. If they want you, they'll take you.

My grandpa dropped napalm on gooks in 'Nam and then worked with Nazis to develop all the aerospace physiology doctrine the Air Force uses to this day.

My dad and grandpa both have awards named after the Nazi, Hubertus Strughold, in his honor.

Ever since Grandma died and his PTSD has gotten worse you can hear him cursing both kikes and gooks in his sleep in his armchair.

Great-grandpa served in Soviet Cavalery. Got shot in leg in Berlin. The bullet got stuck in a bone so medics decided to just leave it there.
After war he became a forest ranger. He loved animals and was 100% pacifist but he once chased away a tabor of gypsies form his village.

>>32537763
You know whatever happened to that rifle?

>>32537705
My grandfather was a patrolman in the coast guard. Not interesting really, but he was doing something

>>32537705
German conscript, 58th infantry engineer. Died in 1944 on eastern front.

>>32537705
>things that didn't happen

>>32537705
Maternal grandpa was too young, he served during Korean War. Paternal grandpa was a radioman on a ship in the Pacific. Don't remember which one, but I know they were hit by a kamikaze.

>vast, overwhelming majority of WW2 roles were non combat
>everyone on /k/ has relatives that served in the waffen SS, Rangers, SAS etc

wow :)
>>32537802
What does this even mean? I can't get my head around it. Your grandfather was a strike pilot in Vietnam but after it worked with Nazis to develop things for the USAF?

Are you drunk?

>>32537705
grandpap 1 manned the radar at Halifax harbor making sure kraut uboats didn't remove us.

I think grandpap 2 did some other inglorious navy or airforce related job on the homefront. He died from lung cancer when I pap was just a pup.

>>32537980

We kept using Nazi scientists long after the 40's dude. Some of them were working as far as the early 70's.

>>32537945
I'm not sure. I never met uncle Jessie and my dad doesn't even know when he died. I'm thinking about calling that side of the family one of these days to try and find out.

My pappaw drove transport ships in Japan. That's all I really know. Probably would have seen some shit if we invaded the mainland.

>>32538004
Stop sniffing glue you idiot nigger

>>32538022

Whatever dude

Great uncle, I believe, was a navigator on a B-17.

>>32538022
Except he's right.

>>32537705
One grandfather was a communications officer aboard American bombers on the eastern front. My other drove jeeps after the invasion of Normandy.

>>32537980
>>32538004
>>32538022
>>32538043

Hold the phone. I got that backwards. Working on physiology with Nazis snatched from Operation Paperclip came before being a navigator in 'Nam.

>>32537980
>Are you drunk?

Almost!

>>32538022
Operation Paperclip, kiddo. We recruited thousands of Nazi scientists and engineers after WW2 and had them working for us throughout the cold war.

>>32537705
My grandma grew up on the base that built the atom bomb.

My German friend's Grandfather spent the war stationed in Monaco until they joined the retreat through Italy.

Nothing but beaches, casinos, and French girls.

One grandfather was an airplane mechanic on an aircraft carrier in the pacific. I do know he had to take over a deck gun and shoot at Japanese fighter planes at some point. Other than that, he spent most of the war hanging out in the Philippenes. Really wish I knew which aircraft carrier so I could look into it more (both he and my grandmother are dead. I'm sure I could find some records my mom or aunts have somewhere and get more info).

My other grandfather was too young to fight but joined up afterwards and was part of the American occupation of Germany during the post-war for a bit.

>>32537705
Dad's side:
Had 2 months of service left on 12.7.41
Wasn't discharged till late 1945
In Jan of 1942 was a corporal but in 1945 was a private. He was promoted and demoted several times.
Fought in North Africa (Italians and French forces) and Italy (German and Italian forces)
Was in France post D-Day but didn't see any combat.
Trained for a potential invasion of Japan.

Mom's side
Was 15 on 12.7.41
Graduated high school at 16 but was not allowed to enlist until 18
Worked as a civilian contractor for Naval Intelligence until he was 20 (was ruled he was "vital" to war effort despite only running files back and forth)
Was finally allowed to enlist at 20 (this was 1945)
Started to train for invasion of Japan but never left the US
War ends and is discharged two weeks later.

>>32538043
The USAF had the industrial giants of the United States developing things that the Germans couldn't even fathom, and that was by about 1950 never mind 1972. When your fictional scientist was going through university the most sophisticated thing man had invented was the Sopwith Camel. It had no reason for out of date experience, especially with a huge amount of political risk, that was itself inferior to the US experience of the time.

The only Nazi scientists worth a damn rocket experts, and way out of date by the late 40s.

Your grandfather was a liar and probably isn't biologically related to you.

>>32537705
My grandfather was 18 at 1947. He missed it. Got out just before Korea so he missed that too.

But my great great etc. Grandpa was an officer and fought for the North (inb4 Yankee born in Arizona). I get his sword and musket when my father passes.

And uncle fought in Nam, I went to Iraq version 2.0

>>32538069
>in the 1970s
>for the us air force
>after being a pilot in the us air force

wow great thanks

>>32537705
Lied about his age to go to war,
Took part in D-Day landings,
Injured during it via shrapnel,
Survived and continued to fight.
Was known to be a big bastard that was as hard as a coffin nail.

Other grandfather also took part in ww2, though never spoke of what he did exactly, he was higher ranked though and continued to serve well after the war.

It makes me think about the world today, if a similar war broke out, how many of the useless shits that wear clothes 7 sizes too big and talk like they are black would step up and fight, I'm guessing none.

>>32537705
My mother's father wasnt old enough.

My father's father was a crew chief in the Army Air Corps.
Then, when the Air Corps became the airforce he would go on to serve in Korea and Vietnam.

>>32537705
Worked. The last direct family member of mine to be in the military was in the Civil War

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>>32538115

>Fictional scientist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold

Good heavens you're triggered. Do you need a safe space?

>>32537705
My grandfather was a cook in Korea. He's very anti-fun because he's "seen what they do to people".
I had an grand-uncle Woody who served in ww2 though. Got sick and died a couple months after enlisting, so I guess it doesn't count.

>>32537705

My grandpa was 173rd Field Artillery in WWII.
He brought back a numbers-matching Luger with the hard-shell holster with the Iron Eagle on it. Dad sold it at a gun show two years ago for $1100.

My great-uncle was in the Marines, unsure about which unit. He was part of the first wave on the beach at Iwo Jima.

>>32538115
Wehrner von Braun was probably one of the best rocket scientists that ever lived and designed the Saturn V. He was in the SS

>>32538166
If extended family counts, my grandfather's best friend fought In the battle of the bulge, and removed a considerable amount of sauerkraut, if what I heard was true. Stayed a career officer throughout Korea, and left right before Vietnam.

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>>32537705
Grandpa helped pioneer in-flight airplane refueling. Other Grandpa was in the Navy, said the scariest thing that happened was when one of the ships in the fleet was sunk by a German U boat.

>>32537705
Lots of German great uncles, some died and some were Soviet POWs and some lived.

>>32537705
Both my grandparnets from my mom's side were 10 at the time. Every time i asked my grandma what she remebers she says nothing, but few weeks ago i found a jerry can with "1944 wehrmacht" stamped on it. I have few questions.

Grandpa was in the Waffen SS and killed scores of commies. Went back to Switzerland when he was done and lived to be 81 with 5 children and 18 grandchildren including me. He was a great person. I wished I asked for more stories when he was alive.

>>32538169
>Dad sold it at a gun show two years ago for $1100.
What in the actual fuck did he do that for?

My grandfather was in the Army during WWII, stationed in Hawaii as a supply officer. Used to hook soldiers up with alcohol in exchange for cool Japanese stuff, I have a fake little katana he brought back. I know He achieved marksmanship scores in basic, but his eyesight wasn't good and he never saw combat as a result. He did work as a mechanical engineer at Lockheed before the war, designed throttle linkages and other small parts for the P38j droop snoot too. He was a pretty great man. I wish I and my generation hadn't had life so easy all these years, I'm sure he's disappointed in me looking down.

My dad's dad had something to do with liberating a Nazi concentration camp at the end of the war. He brought back a Nazi flag, a German hunting dirk with a stag handle and hunting scenes etched into the blade, and photos he took of the emaciated people in the camp.

Unfortunately he left my grandma and their kids when my dad was 12 and grandma burned all his shit so I've never seen the flag or photos, or even know any details about his service. My dad still has the dirk though

>>32538376
>40 years later, Grandma told me my dad and uncle used to joke that they were going to put the flag out front on Flag Day and then scolded them for the joke

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>>32538376

>photos he took of the emaciated people in the camp.
Yeah, SURE he did.

>grandma burned all his shit
Oh how convenient.

My great-grandpa was in the Home Army, grandma used to tell me his stories about planning diversions, destroying german artillery and he apparently only killed one kraut. He stole a PPSH from ruskies after the war. He only told a priest about it who later turned out to be working with NKVD. He was executed not long after that.

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>>32538295
Money I would guess.

Soviet naval infantry
Volzhskaya flotiliya
Died in stalingrad

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>>32537705

>grandpa was too young to go to war
>a massive bomb landed near his home in london and levelled the entire area around a crossroad
>his family moved to birmingham where it may have been safer
>that also got bombed
>gone further up north to manchester instead because that was totally not gonna get hit
>mfw

My grandfather killed nazis.

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>>32537705
Pic related, me great grandad.

Served in the SS Division Norge,

Used to ride on the back of panzers with an mp40 in the eastern front,

Got sniped in the leg and rescued by a loyalist Norweigan,

Hospital captured by Americans,

Escaped getting a tattoo branding him as a Nazi,

Lied about what he did during the war and the red cross smuggled him here to Australia.

He gunned down lots of Russians and maybe even helped committ some war crimes.

>>32538541

Based. We need more people like him.

>>32538583
My great grandmother used to be part of the aryan breeding program,

So I feel as if I am certified good stock hehehe

>>32537705
Grandpa got conscripted ( i think) during Korea just for the Army to realize he was the only son so he got stationed in Alaska instead.

My maternal grandfather was working a desk job until they found out that he was fluent in French. From then on, he was translating for the Armed Forces, and even served as de Gaulle's interpreter at a press conference once.

My paternal grandfather did communications stuff in Burma for pilots flying over the Hump. To my knowledge, he never did see combat, but he brought home a Dha Ma (the Kachin version of the Dha sword) and a Kukri. While he was in Burma, to help keep on the good side of the local tribes, he would shoot monkeys out of the trees for them with a Thompson and an M1 Carbine.

>>32537705
Great grandfather on mums side was in the SS, served both western and eastern fronts. From what I know he was wounded and aided allied pow's. However he died before I could really talk to him, autopsy found pieces of shrapnel in him.

One grandfather was a Luftwaffe officer, I still have most of his stuff and all of the photos he took (he was a photographer)
The other one was a WM Officer, disappeared on the eastern front never to be heard from again, this either gulag, dead or fled to sovietistan
The surviving one died before I was able to speak so I know nothing about him
Grandma is pretty tight lipped about him as well

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>>32537705
>>32538541
Also pic related is my great great grandad,

He served in the austro hungarian army on the eastern front in WW1,

Defending some noname bridge he was awarded a title and land,

He got this because the previous 2 men manning the machine gun got shot in the head,

He was shot in the chest but continued to man the machinegun alone, against waves of russians

When reinforcements came and saw the pile of bodies they more than happily decorated him

>>32538668
Real human being, and a real hero.

>>32537705
Grandfather was a rifleman in the US infantry during the sweep through Belgium and Germany. He never mentioned removing any schnitzel himself (though he's always been rather reticent about being in actual combat), but he got two purple hearts: one from shrapnel from a tank shell and the other when a Jeep in front of him hit a landmine.

One great uncle (who I never met) was a sailor on a patrol craft of some kind based in New Caledonia. Later on, the Navy sent him to Iwo Jima in some capacity, but I never got the whole story behind that.

Another great uncle was in the Merchant Marine in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He said that U-boats were pretty fucking scary, especially when they try to torpedo you, but that the Mediterranean was pretty cool.

my great grandpa fled Germany/Poland and went to the US where he joined the army to fight against the Nazis

>>32537705
he was a US weatherman on a cruiser ( i think, he never said the name of the ship he served on but he said it wasnt the biggest)

Paternal Great Granpa No.1
was some soviet staff officer, who impregnated my great grandma when she was his housemaid late '46.

Paternal Grandpa No. 2 spent the war in Norway as a messenger cause his dad already fell in ww1 and so he was exempt from frontline service.

Maternal Grandpa No. 1 was civil engineer and civil head or at least high ranking in the administration of the Auschwitz sub camp Lagischa constructing a power plant.
His wife and my grandma left schlesia before him,
he returned to them winter '45 with only his summer suit,
a suitcase full of cash and a sausage on him.

Maternal Grandpa No. 2 was interior architect and so was drafted only late in the war and fell late '44 or '45.

>>32538082
is that why you have such a fucked up mutant face?

>grandpa was a gendarme
>send in the balkans as a translator
>fugged lot of bitches and killed several communist partisans
>captured by the germans and send in a camp
>escape the camp with fellow prisoners
>join the russians
>war is over
>german ballerina needs grampa help to cross the frontier and meet her husband held prisoner by the americans
>grandpa accept and act as her fake husband banging her meanwhile
>finally he returns home

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>>32537705
Originally wrote this for /x/, but it works here, too.
Pic related.

>Wife's grandfather.
>Born in 1919, somewhere in Poland, to a well-to-do slav family.
>Russians roll through.
>Germans roll through.
>Buggered off to England to join the Free Polish II Corps
>Fought in the Middle East and Italy.
>Claims to have spent a lot of time "behind enemy lines."
>Talked a lot about the importance of reading body language.
>No real reason to doubt him.
>After the war, emmigrated to Canada, married a teenager.
>Outwardly magnetic and charming, had a habbit of appearing in newspaper fluff-pieces wherever he went.
>Inwardly was a manipulative sociopath.
>Had a bunch of kids "to do him honor"
>Tally on the kids:
> 1 suicide by hanging
> 1 suicide by self-immolation
> 3 backwoods substance-addicts
> 2 Middle-class suburbanites, but members of fringe Christian cults
>His granddaughter (my wife) was groomed from childhood to care for him in his old age.
>He was haunted in every sense of the word.
>Weird shit, orbs, things flying off shelves, doors opening by themselves.
>Overnight visitors always had nighmares.
>As a child, wife once woke up with a drop of blood on her forehead (not hers).
>He compulsively built Jesus shrines all over his property.
>After he sold it, new owner went crazy and trashed it.
>Local rumor is, his son killed and burried him somewhere on the property.
>After Granny died, he could not sleep unless a Catholic cable channel was playing in his bedroom.
>As he was dieing, lots of spooky rambling about dead soldiers and necromantic ceremonies.
>When he finally croaked, at 97, everyone in the extended family felt like an oppressive shadow had lifted.
>Our #1 priority now is liquidating his estate and moving TF away.

My grandfather was a Navy Seabee stationed in Australia. I couldn't ever get him to tell me much about his service.

All I know is that the Japanese bombed them every day...unless battleships were in port (presumably because of the AA). And the Navy butchered his feet after an accident.

>>32537705
Navy. There are tons of pictures of him screwing around and having stupid fun with the rest of the ship crew, I don't know if he was in any battles. Never got the chance to ask.

My granddad was a Pole. He was 21 y.o in 1939.
Want to be a doctor, but family was piss poor (farmers) so can't afford studies. Went for being vet instead (that was much cheaper). Been on his 2nd year at the university when Mr. Hitler throw shit into the fan. Been mobilized and send to arty unit, because they were using lot of horses. Seen some combat in Sep 1939, become POW after his regiment was overrun by Germans in northern Poland, send to stalag XX B/Z Danzig-Bischofsberg. In late 1941 when Germans desperately needed a place for shitload of Russian POWs he was transfered to stalag Thorn-Süd (Torun) and escaped during transport. Returned home, get a false papers, joined resistance (Pomeranian Griffin). Survived war and "liberation" by russians in 1945. Died in 1983 due to heart attack.

>>32538295

Because he didn't see a point in keeping it around to pass it down to me, because he was pissed off at me for not spending any time with him.

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>>32537705
My grandfather worked a soup kitchen in the Winter War, so he removed at least a battalion's worth of russkies.

>>32538401
If I wanted to lie on the internet don't you think I would've made up an actual story?

your grandpa was the bad guy

>>32537705
My grandfather served in famous 20th Estonian Grenadier Division of the SS.
Right after Germany liberated Estonia from Russians he joined Right after Germany liberated Estonia from Russians he joined auxiliary police, and helped to remove leftover russians and communist sympathisers.
When Russians start counter attacking and was about to invade Estonia again, he joined SS, but almost immediately was wounded and sent to hospital in Germany.
Then he recovered, Russians was already on German soil.
They was mostly retreating, under constant air attacks from Russians and allies.
Then it became obvious that war is lost, he planned to surrender to Americans, but local civilians, czechs, attacked them beat some his comrades to death and hand over him to the Soviets.
He spent 10 years in Siberia, and only in 1955 was pardoned and allowed to return home.

>>32538406
What became of the PPSh?

My uncle Randy was in 'Nam. He was a door gunner, probably killed a lot of zips, but he feels guilty and won't talk about it.

>>32537705
My grandparents were too young to join the military. My grandmother is English and lived in Nottingham. She tells me stories of having to run to the bomb shelters and carry her gas mask around school. Grandpa lived on a Florida ranch. Don't know much about him but he was probably wrangling gators and shooting and hunting. I inherited 2 of his guns. Old Remington .22 and a single shot 20 gauge. Might be a Winchester. This on my moms side. Not sure what my dads parents were up too.

grandpa on mom's side was in the 82nd and was dropped on d-day. he got shot in the leg and didn't see much action after that.

My great great grandfather was in the Wehrmacht during WW2. After his service he had my great grandmother in 1944, then when the war ended they left East Germany and lived in West Germany, until the wall came down and My grandfather went back east where he stayed the rest of his life. My great grandmother came to America in the early 90's, and she still keeps photos of him, along with the copy of Mein Kampf her family recieved, on her bookshelf.

One of my grandfathers was Czech and joined the resistance when uncle dolfy got them home into the Reich, he sabotaged shit and told me that they were involved a little in the assassination of Heydrich by supplying materials or something

When the Russians came, they showed them a few Germans they had captured, and were taken prisoner and tortured by the Russians since someone capable and willing to defend their country against foreigners would be dangerous.

He finally managed to escape the country, married a farmer's wife in Upper Austria and inherited the farm.

The other grandfather was a diehard nazi before the war and then part of a Luftwaffe supply unit, and he was desillusioned rather quickly as he saw how the German end of the stick became shorter and shorter as the war went on.

He got wounded in Eastern Prussia during an air strike in 1944 and sent to a Bavarian hospital, where the staff kept him since they needed every helping hand for the wounded from both the front and the bombings, and returned to his family in Upper Austria after the war ended, where they plundered the remains of an SS cavalry unit and opened a transport business first with the horses and then with some actual motorized vehicles.

They never got along really well, with Czech grandpa hating the new money atitude and calling him a Skopcak or something like that all the time and native Austrian grandpa calling him a Behm or even slav scum now and then.

In 2008 Czechgramps had a severe stroke and we were all surprised to see nazigramps visit him several times before his death, he passed away three years later.

Both were good men in their own regard and I have learned a lot from them, particularly a hatred for commies.

>>32539065
Also this same grand father was in the airforce during 'nam. But he was just a mechanic. Other grandpa was in the army at the time but my dad has no clue what he did.

>>32539088
Sorry the text is a mess, I didn't get any sleep last night

Both grandpas were too young to fight
one joined the Bundeswehr later and the other did some newsreporter stuff
my great-grandfathers didnt fight either iirc, but i only know about the father of my paternal mother
he would distill alcohol for some rural aristocrat in Silesia
at some point the Russians came and he was taken prisoner
came back at some point in the 50s

>>32537705

paternal grandfather

served in the cameronians in north africa, was wounded, returned to service, came home.

he never talked about it so not sure of what he did.

maternal grandfather

was in the RAF, loaded bombs onto hurribombers, got stuck behind enemy lines in the battle of the bulge. survived for a week on corned beef and could never eat the stuff again.

>>32538770
rekt

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My Papa lied about his age and joined the Marines at 17. Shipped off to fight the japs and worked as a demolitions specialist with another guy from Detroit who apparently he worked side by side with. Took some shrapnel to the torso on the island of Saipan and the war was over for him. Went on to become a Detroit fire captain. Died three years ago.

Grandma worked in a Detroit munitions factory inspecting shells. They met after the war working at Chrysler. Still alive and kicking at the age of 92

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>>32537705
I don't know. I never could ask.

My great grandpa flew 67 combat missions in a B-25 over Northern Italy and South France. Later he was called up to duty during the Korean War to first train pilots and then later fly the EC 121 (probably before vietnam or at the beginning stages). When Vietnam did go on he was flying troop and supply missions in a C130 and C141 until 1971.

Through 1942-1971 he won an Air medal with 13 oak leaf clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, and an Air Force Commendation Medal as well as certificates congratulating him on something like 2000 and 1000 hours of flight time in a C141 and C130, respectively. He also had a little stand with a piece of shrapnel from an event that nearly fucked his and his crew's shit, and won him the Commendation Medal.

Interestingly enough he was related to a guy in the Luftwaffe flying reconnaissance in Bf.109 over the eastern front

I don't know a lot about my other great grandpa but he was a merchant mariner and a marine later on and I think fought in Korea and probably got head from a jap hooker during occupation for a chocolate bar.

I'm quite tired so i'm sorry if this is rambling.

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>>32537705
Not grandpa, just my Vietnamese pap who grew up in the prime of the Vietnam Conflict.

>Has a deep hatred for all things Communism.
>Used several guns back then, he kept saying "KM16"
>I figured out it was a XM16.
>Says his favorite gun was the M14.
>Was captured by the NVA, been in prison camps for several years.

>In the depths of the jungle.
>Says lighting a cigarette at night would get you shot by NVA snipers.

Now here's the crazy part.
>Doesn't believe in Agent Orange.
>He says it's all Communist propaganda.
>All those victims of AG are just fakes, hired by the North to get more money from America.

I'm saving money to get him a M14, I'm sure he misses killing NVA traitors with it.

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My Great Great uncle was a Spanish soldier who got out right before the civil war but was executed because a local Jew payed the guy who wrote the hitlist to change the name's.

>>32538795
>Had a bunch of kids "to do him honor"
What the hell does this mean?

Grandpa was a Gunnery sergeant in the USMC and fought japs in the pacific. Mansged to sneak his Thompson out but after he died my uncle who's a super liberal sold it

>>32537705
Grandfather was in the japanese imperial army during the Sino-Japanese war and WWII.
I tried posting what I knew about him in a thread like this but it 404'd before I could finish.

>>32537705

great-grandfather was in the Navy. He wanted to be a carpenter but they said no when they saw he was a fucking genius. He started off working with radar when it was brand new and working on a lot of shit that is still classified. All he ever really told me was he was involved with developing masers (lasers that use gas instead of a gem to focus the beam), and creating the early radar for supersonic aircraft. I was really young I wish I got to ask him more. I just remember him pointing at the TV when some history channel documentary was on, and telling me about how he built the radar for that plane.

>>32537705
gramps was a B17 and later a B24 pilot in Europe

Paternal grandad was ambulance/truck driver I. Europe.
Maternal grandad was a CB in pacific, Aus, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, then home. He went a bunch of other places but those were the only islands that there was any fighting. Not Australia.

>>32539265
Life shouldn't be this painful

>>32539255
Who executed him? Fascists or republicans?

I had a great uncle who was a seabee in the pacific and a grandmother who was a German refugee. Though supposedly one of my uncles was a commando who fought in Honduras in the 80's

>>32538258
And one died in training pre WW2, a nice little plaque exists with his name on it in the German Hamlet.

>>32537705
Papaw was a ball turret gunner on a b-17
Other papaw went into normandy D-day +6 and eventually helped free Bastonge. While in a fox hole a german fell into it and they fought hand to hand until papaw shot the german with his own luger.

Thats all i know. I still have the luger.

My paternal grandmother never said anything besides the fact that she remembers hiding in a forest in Saxony due to bombing. Don't know anything else since I missed the chance to talk about anything else regarding my paternal ancestors.

The majority of my maternal ancestors got evacuated from Breslau and Liegnitz when the Soviets came. One of my great grandfathers fought in France, got injured and send to a field hospital. Apparently he was quite the womanizer and ran after every nurse. Afterwards he got send to fight on the Eastern front.

>>32539257
As near as I can figure, it meant "serve him and listen to his crackpot wisdom." Grampy's version of old-world discipline didn't really mesh with 1960's North American culture. When his first-generation descendants self-destructed, he disowned them and adopted a fairy-tale grandfather persona for the grandkids. He was a manipulative shit.

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Pic related
Was also at Tobruk

My grandpa drove landing boats in WWII, lost three boats but every time he was close enough to step off near to shore. Couldn't swim.

Dad drove jeeps for radio/radar triangulation during the Korean war. Said he had a BAR and it was the best.

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my son was on the honor guard for this man's brother, who was also a WW2 vet.

>>32538541
Nice, dude looks like my German grandfather.

My grand father was a pilot of a b17 during WWII. he has he has bombed the shit out of the Germans in a total of 17 bombing runs.

One fought the Japanese in the Pacific. Don't know too much about it, he didn't talk about it. But I know he was one of the first people on an Island in the hopping strategy. The other was freezing his ass off in Alaska at the time, didn't know too much about the conflict, he was preoccupied with not to be eaten by bears.

>>32537705
My greatgrandfather was running an ironmorgery in aa small village near Thun. He had the only telephone in town and let the general use it. He even built an entire bureau/phone booth over night with the bedroom door.

My gramps was a medic in nam. His story confuses me a little, he said he joined the navy but then was transferred into the marines? Apparently he was shot in 67 and was sent home, and he didnt tell anyone.

>>32537705
My grandfather worked for the gestapo, i've seen his papers. I know that he knew Klaus Barbie personally, as i have a few pictures of them together.

I guess he killed, or was behind the death of a few krauts, but im not sure. My father knows, but he's never told me a whole lot, neither did my grandfather himself before he died.

>>32539363
Sadly the fascist it was shit show they just up and shot him in the street our family didn't even know till he didn't come home for dinner and my aunt went to the Guardia Civil to ask if they'd heard anything and they said that they had a john doe with my great great uncles description.

>>32539501
>His story confuses me a little, he said he joined the navy but then was transferred into the marines

Navy corpsmen are embedded in marine units as their medics.

>>32539453
>Said he had a BAR and it was the best.

thank you for saying that.
the BAR has been much maligned on /k/ of late.

>>32539527
Thanks for replying anon, I never knew that.

Also were the (you)'s re added? I thought they were removed

>Gampy is a paratrooper inna101st on D-Day, kills 8 men, is actually in a book about the landing. (i forget what it's called, it's just a passing mention, my Dad has it framed along with the trifold and gampy's medals)

>Defends a bridge from krauts alone for 12 hours after being lost from his squad, shot 3 times in the face, lives to be 90 whilst drinking, smoking, and eating very spicy food because it's all he can taste.

>Purple Heart, Silver Star, and some other medal I forget.

Gampy was pretty cool.

>>32539525
Was he a commie?

>>32537705

Mom's side.
>Great uncles were in the Air Force, Tank drivers, and marines.
>Women raised kids.
>Gparents deadbeats and niggerlovers.

Dad's side:
>Piss poor sicilian farmers escaping from Mussolini (jewish ancestry)

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>>32539265
He must have needed the money for more matzo
Sorry for your loss

>>32537705
Britbong here, majority of my grandparents died before I was old enough to ask about it but:

Maternal grandfather was a tailgunner on bombers.

Paternal grandfather ended up as a POW but no idea what unit, think he was infantry.

And no relation, but the old lady who lived next door used to drive trucks from the assembly plants to wherever they were needed for deployment.

One grandpa was a b17 bombardier with 3 tours. So probably thousands.

The other grandpa spent most of the war and the entire occupation literally cucking some frenchie while crashing on their sofa, but saw heavy combat in '53 in Korea.

Dad got 1 gook during the last month of vietnam, and 2 Iraqis during Desert Storm as a fucking field grade officer. Dad's brother got 1 gook MIG and a slavshit transport plane of unknown-but-not-gook nationality during vietnam. Mom's oldest brother got a friendly LTC with a jeep during Vietnam but in Japan, LTC was passed out drunk innaroad.

I got at least 3 Iraqis across 2 deployments in OIF and 1 Chechen in Afghanistan during OEF.

All 4 great grandpas fought in ww1, 2 didnt make it home, remaining 2 didn't EVER talk about it but one got treated for mustard gas and had purple heart with 3x oak clusters.

>>32538051
Correct. Here's a famous example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#U.S._Army_career

Youngsters today forget how well German scientists got along in the West after WWII, and that many had long careers. The Cold War was on, they were good at their specialties, and the Soviet Union needed containing.

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>>32539254
Wait.....
How many years was he a war prisoner

How was his return to society

How did he meet your mother

Did he encourage you to join the army

Do you still go with him to the range

Grandad served in the army in Europe. A clerk or something. Stayed until 1947.
After the war he was stationed at a Nike missle site in Ohio.

My grandfather was either a NCO or low-ranking officer in the 19th waffen grenadier division SS. He didn't really like talking about it.

>>32537705
>Greatgrandfather- lied about his age (was too old to fight) and got sent to Tobruk, where he killed a shit load of Germans. He also nearly got dishonourably discharged for bashing 2 MP's why his mates where in a brothel, and getting shot in the arse by a German sniper when he went out for a shit just before sundown

One Grampa either flew or rear gunned dive bombers all over the pacific. After the war he worked in aerospace as a machinist, until working his way up to engineer. Started, I think at Northrup or North American then worked on B1a's at Rockwell and later the space shuttle. He ended up at NASA also on the STS program early on before he retired.

Other Grampa was in Europe in the Army. Don't remember what he did when he was in and didn't do anything spectacular in his life afterwards. Just a regular guy raising a family.

Between these to guys and my Dad, there was no way I was going to grow up and not serve.

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>>32539601
No, that's the worst part really. He was a very catholic patriot who served his time and just wanted to spend time with his family. I can't confirm if he was actually a facist or just supported Franco because he was the best choice give my great great uncles views. The murder almost caused a schism between the family because my great great aunt blamed Franco for the murder and most of my family were Franco supporters for one reason or another. Fun fact my grandparents actually meet in Venezuela because they left Spain to find work post war. They only lived one town apart but had never meet before then. Also I apologise if I am not responding fast enough I am posting from a bus with spoty WiFi on my way back to Benning.

Grandfather was one of the radar technicians stationed over in the UK to assist the RAF. Tells me the same story every few minutes whenever I go see him.

Alzheimer's is a terrible thing

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>grandfather was part of the Suojeluskunta
>killed Russians and drove the trucks of bodies to Lappland

>grandmother was part of Lotta Svärd
>worked as a nurse

>other grandfather served in the Canadian army
>stormed the beaches on D-Day

feels weird man
thankfully my mother kept the Canadian army medals

28th Maori Battalion, was in Italy in 1944/45 and stationed in Egypt

>>32539254
>>He says it's all Communist propaganda.

My USAF SMSgt Nam vet bro worked transient alert on many Ranch Hand birds. Agent Orange is no joke. Extra fucked is if he had hard copy TDY orders he could prove boots on ground, but he went there on verbal orders from Korea and only has his fucking TDY amendments (and of course CZTE on his LES) which VA considers insufficient. Shit was casual back then and many TDYs were poorly or completely undocumented, then the units were inactivated and orderly rooms got dumpstered.

Word to the G.I.s on this forum, SAVE copies of everyfuckingthing even if you don't think you will need them, and if you've been near burn pits on deployments DOCUMENT it including exchanging SPECIFIC buddy letters so when you get medically FUBAR you might get compensation.

>>32537705
My grandfather carried a BAR in Army from the beginning of the war to the end. He fought in the pacific.

His brother was a medic who joined at the same time and also fought on the pacific front.

Both came home alive but my grandfather lost his legs to a Japanese machine gunner.

My great grandpa joined the Polish II Corps in the artillery and became a corporal soon after. He was present at Monte Cassino supplying munitions and spent the rest of his life in the UK after the unit was disbanded there.

>>32537705
Mine shipped off to Germany days before the war ended. He spent a long time there, and he said he "peeled alot of potatoes", and then gave a little wink. He died soon after so I was never able to ask what he actually did

>>32539447
Very cool, and very important work.

My grandfather served on a destroyer escort in the Pacific War. He helped shoot down Kamikaze attackers. He didn't know who specifically hit them, but he remembers retrieving some of the bodies from the wrecks.

>>32539544
>the BAR has been much maligned on /k/ of late.

Not many Korean conflict veterans on /k/.

>>32539790
Alzheimers is bad, but old memories are the strongest and conversing shows you care for him so make the effort.

>>32537705
He wasn't alive yet.

>>32539987
*none of them were alive yet

My father fought in Italy, France and Germany. Had PTSD after the war but got past it and had a long rewarding life. He didn't talk about the war but was happy I enlisted.

Most interesting WWII vet I met was my eighth grade science teacher. He was in the Merchant Marine then joined the Navy after the war and rose to Commander. He was a diver, did a lot of Top Secret work with submarines, and after retirement captained tall sailing ships. He inspired me to join the Air Force. He had brass balls and sued the Rutherford, NJ school board after they tried to fuck him like they got away with doing to other teachers. He won, continued teaching, and retired to Maine.

http://www.nea.org/home/41892.htm

my grandpa went to fight in the spanish civil war, he got shot in the throat and had to escape back to britain. I think he wrote some books after the war.

>>32540080
He better have not been some commie, socialist, or anarchist you fucking faggot

>>32537705
Sit in bomb shelters/get evacuated to wales and get beaten by the guy who was supposed to take care of evacuated childrej

>>32540085
He spent the rest of his life criticizing communism

Maternal Grandfather: Mechanic at a German airbase in Jutland.
Maternal Grandmother: Grandmother.
Paternal Grandfather: Hernias, Drunk, couldn't enlist, but worked at Curtiss-Wright for the duration.
Paternal Grandmother: Grandmother.

>>32540123
So he was! Wow, uh fucking wow

My grandfather on my dad's side was a Huey door gunner in Vietnam, according to my father his helicopter got shot down but it was low enough already that most of the crew lived, never got to meet the man in person though. Heard he had a brain aneurysm a while back but thats all I know

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>>32540161
Yeah, this is the book he wrote aftewards.

>>32537705
Crammed himself into a ball turret on a B17.
My other grandfather was in the Navy and stayed in Japan as part of occupation until 1946.

My uncles on my mother's side all served. One was in the Marines and got shot on Iwo Jima, he didn't die though, at least not then, he died trying to pump water out of a lake using a shitty water pump that shorted out and electrocuted him.
Another uncle was taken prisoner in Bastogne and another was a Seabee.

My great uncle on my father's side was in the Army, don't know much beyond that, but he brought back a K98 which was in my grandfather's possession and now my uncles whom I've been trying to pry from him for a while. He has no kids and is single, I hope he doesn't sell it out from me.

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>>32540184

>>32537705
my Grandfather (mom's dad) told me he had no interest in getting killed over in some other country. So he made Airplanes in a factory. After the war he worked for an airline as a mechanic, eventually working his way up to being general foreman for the airline. He worked for that airline for 40 years.

my other Grandfather (dad's dad) was a highly decorated Army Air Corp bombadier who was awarded two silver stars, a bronze star for valor and a flying cross for his actions in Europe.

>>32537715
Undervalued post.

my grandpa was a kamikaze pilot

>>32539892
Probably peeled potatoes, got drunk and nailed German women.

>>32540255
He must have been pretty shitty at it if you're still here.

>>32540271
he had children before sinking some stupid american airplane boat

>>32537705
Was a navigator on a B17 that bombed the shit out of Europe, so indirectly probably helped kill hundreds.

>>32540278
Or he was one of the most that did not even start and then ran off to the us and opend a karate shop somewhere on the west coast.

My grandmother just told me this story about my possible grandfather a year ago

>Grandmother marries at 18yo to 1st husband
>Pearl Harbor happens
>so called almost grandfather joins military and is in basic
>one day on way back from range, him and buddy screw around on back of truck going back to base
>his friend throws his hat off back of truck
>possible grandfather jumps off truck to grab it
>driver of truck behind possible grandfathers truck ends up hitting him and severly injuring him
>possible grandfather ends up dying in infirmary

My grandmother wasnt even married a year before she lost her husband

>>32540320
kill yourself, round eye

>>32540184
kek. George Orwell was still a socialist fuck stick and was only half right with 1984. Huxley and Bradbury were about as right as well. Our dystopian future is already looking like a fun action packed mix of the three.

>>32540340
Oh I hit a nerve.
Will you hit your stomach with a knife because of the shame he brought over your family?

>>32540322
>my possible grandfather
Kek

my grandfather was obersturmfuhrer lewis reinstadt

>>32537705
Grandfather died in a concentration camp after he was put on a train and sent to Poland.
He fell from his guard tower and was swarmed by the prisoners, but took a few with him until his freshly-broken arm disallowed him from fighting back any longer.

>>32540430
stale

>>32537705
Great Uncle fought as a Marine at Guadalcanal and later Okinawa, where he got fucking bayonetted in the leg and had to shoot the guy point blank. Not sure if he had any other kills or if he even fought other battles in WW2, as the thigh injury was probably pretty bad. He did go on to fight in the Korean War though, so it must have healed good enough for him to do that.

Mother's father evaded the concentration camps when they started rounding us up. He knew it was coming early because his best friend was the chief of police, who helped him escape the city with my aunts. They ran for the mountains and managed to live in the wilderness until the war was over. His friends kept his house intact for him, and he was actually able to get it back after the war. The rest of my family either went to the camps or served in the armed forces as part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. I have 2 uncle's whose names are on the Go For Broke monument in LA:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_for_Broke_Monument

t. Half Japanese

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One of my grandparents was in the SS and fought in eastern europe
The other one was in the Romanian army, survived the war only to be sent to Siberia

My grandpaps was a field medic in the 10th Mountain Division. He was awarded 2 bronze stars, but his records were burnt in that fire in the 70s, and he died pretty young from cancer so we don't know for what.

>>32540257
Probably, but it's fun to imagine what spooky shenanigans he could have been up to

>>32540322
>possible grand father

Oh son. You might have just invented a meme.

Maternal grandfather was a Navy doctor in the Pacific. He spent most of the war shuttling between Midway(?) and the navy hospital at Pearl Harbor, later helped set up a hospital in Manila after we took it back.

Paternal grandfather was a US Army vet, as in animal doctor, in Europe. No operators in my family since great grandpa Kelly stormed San Juan hill.

>>32537705
Mother's side: Grandfather was a rifleman during Winter War, and he lost his right arm in an artillery barrage during the last days of the war. When he died at 83 years old, he still had a few grenade fragments embedded in his bones. His younger brother died during the war.

Father's side: Grandfather worked in artillery during the wars, and never got within rifle-shot to the enemy. He spent most of his war-time hauling ammunition with horse-driven cart or sledge.

>>32537705

my grampa fought in korea

>he didnt like to talk about it

>>32537705
Great grandfather served in France in '44 riding supply trains across Europe and fueling Patton's army.

Great uncle served in the other theater flying a TBF Avenger. Was shot down and the only survivor.
Uncle was the only one still alive when I asked him about his service.

>>32537705
My grandfather joined a Finnish military in 1944, and literally few days after Finland surrender.
They was forced to switch sides, and fight germans instead of russians.
He was not enthusiastic about it, until germans started killing civilians and burn villages to the ground.

Grandad was a machine gunner removing sushi in occupied Philippines. Supposedly buried some poor jackass alive. Not sure if he was in the Bataan Death March.

Uh.... my father's parents were German and my mother's parents were Dutch.
Pretty sure my dad's side tried killing my mother's....

>>32541182
And by jackass, I meant he whacked a sushi over the head and buried the unconscious dude.

>>32537799
They wont put all siblings in one platoon

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Great-Grandfather enlisted 1942 in the Air Corp, but the specifics of what he did are hard to hammer down.
He himself had confirmed that he "flew for the US and Chinese governments" during the war, and my uncle recalls stories that he was not perhaps the best of pilots, having crashed a plane.
But beyond that, hard to say.

My grandfather was an anti aircraft gunner on a destroyer. He personally shot down two jap airplanes

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>grand-father too young for ww2
>great-grandfathers had reserved occupations or were too young for ww1

JUST

as a counter-point most of my great-uncles joined the army, airforce or Navy either during or after the great war to escape How Green Was My Valley-tier northern coal-mining hunger poverty and some were pretty senior enlisted just prior to and during ww2(like RSM or WO kind of senior enlisted)

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>>32537705
German grandfather was in the SS. Killed a lot of degenerates and kikes. My mother unfortunately burned his uniform when she was in her hippy stage, the only thing I have left is one of his SS patches that's deteriorating.

>>32541340
Sucks man. Did you know him or did he die before your time?

>>32537705
US 8th Air Force, grandad was a bombardier. Helped engineer better fuel tanks after his B17 got shot to bits by 88mm flak.

>>32541353
Died before my time.
All my mother told me was that he was a racist asshole, which probably wasn't true.

Paternal grandfather served with the LSSAH from November 44 to the end of the war, he was 16.

Maternal grandfather served in the Marine Corps in Korea. His older brother was a Navy SeaBee in the Pacific, saw some pretty heavy shit.

My granddad was an Italian conscript cook that surrendered as soon as he can and got sent to South Africa pow camp. The other one was a boer farmer that hated the British and refused to fight for them.

Grandpa's older brother served on a cruiser in the Pacific and during Vietnam, don't know much else unfortunately

Grandpa fought since the beginning of the chinese civil war all the way to korea (possibly even Vietnam. I never got the chance to confirm)

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>>32537705

My grandfather
>one of two sons
>big bro joins US Marines
>my grandfather joins US Navy
>grandfather was crew on a Fletcher-class destroyer
>big bro sent to Guadalcanal (see pic)
>big bro dies on island
>grandfather almost died multiple times

Yea, and now is dipshit of a grandson works for a Japanese company and beats off to kancolle porn.

>>32537705
>Grandma:
Normal teenage girl stuff until the Ruskies neared Preßlau so she fled west with her sister to Berlin to avoid rape and met my grandad
>great uncle: Feldwebel in the Luftwaffe
>other great uncle: fought on the eastern front, have pic of him in a motorcycle sidecar looking badass
>grandad: went to jump school to invade Japan. Nukes happened so he became an MPin occupied Berlin guarding AFRN. Became fascinated with broadcasting, went from guarding radio gear to operating it. Met qt German and married her

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>>32537705
Both my grandmother and grandfather on my mother's side were OUN spies and information runners.

Grandpa joined then navy because he knew the 5 sullivans. Grew up in their neighborhood.

>>32537705
American Great Uncle piloted landing craft on D-Day, and had one blown out from under him.
My Scottish grandfather fought the Germans, and had the side of his jaw bashes open with a bayonet. His jaw would pop really loudly whenever he chewed.

Mother's father was in the Greek resistance during the German occupation and a communist party member. He was an electrician by trade and he worked undercover at a local power station. His job was to stop the germans in the event they tried to destroy the station during their retreat. He was issued only a pistol that he carried every day and it was sure that they would have killed him if they found it. He told stories about how he would spit on the boots of german officers and then they would beat him up and make him clean it. When the germans were leaving, he traded a lot of stuff from a nazi officer in exchange for two loaves of bread and a blanket. That stuff included two radios, a portable film projector and, most interestingly, two 16 gauge double-barreled hunting shotguns which the officer himself had stolen from France. All of this stuff is in my house now.

My father's father was on the opposite side of the spectrum. He was a radical right-winger who supported the government. I don't know much about what he did during the war, and that is probably because he collaborated with the Nazis.

Grandfather on Mom's side was alightly too young for WW2, finished training for communications just in time for the Armistice in Korea, and was in aerospace manufacture as an electrician for Douglas (worked on A-4s) by the time Vietnam came around.

His older brother was a P-61 Black Widow pilot, also known as "that night fighter that came around after the Japanese Air Force was reduced to a fine powder." I think before that he was in air defense.

>Grandparents deported to Siberia in the 30s.
>Grandfather sent to gulag right after father was born.
>Grandfather pulled out of gulag, handed rifle and sent to defend Moscow from fascist invaders.
>Grandfather got blown up somewhere in eastern Russia, never saw grandmother or father again after gulag happened.
>No idea about maternal grandfather. I assume he also got blown up somewhere between 1941 and 1945.

>>32541731
пoнaд yce, baby

>>32541388
>88 gets
But yeah he was probably racist but is that a bad thing?

>>32541867
>Western Russia
Oops

One of my grandmother's uncle served in the Spanish civil war.

>When WW2 began, he was sent to the eastern front with the blue division.
>Combat his way to one of the deepest fronts in Russia.
>Gets captured and came back to Spain years after the end of the war.
>He never said anything about what he did in the war or what happened to him during his capture.

Another uncle of the same grandma:

>Spanish civil war veteran, blue division, eastern front.
>Fights his way from Berlin to Russia and back for almost 4 years.
>Gets shot in the lung near Berlin in the 1944.
>They sent him back to Spain to get better.
>After a few years, he is completely healed, but the war is over.
>Not a big fan of talking about that subject, but sometimes, he mentioned something about blowing up certain bridges whose name nobody understands.

>>32537705
My grandparents lived through the Jap occupation of Hong Kong and ended up with pretty much a lifelong hatred of the bastards.

>>32537705
Father's Father - Served as a Marine in the Pacific. Carried a radio. May or may not have seen some shit. Was definitely on Okinawa, may have been elsewhere in SEA in the earlier stages, having joined up in '42.

Mother's Great Grandfather - Served in the Army in Europe. Got captured in the Bulge, later got liberated, linked up with the allies again, and then finished out. Send back a pistol (either a 38H or an HSC, can't remember which, my Grandfather has it).

Maternal grandfather served in Korea. Mother only spoke of how abusive he was and would hit her and grandma. Suffered from a bit of PTSD and was a total drunk as he died of liver cancer a month before I was born.

My mom's grandpa flew bombers in WW2 and my dad's grandpa was in the SS but left Germany and moved to america in 38 because he somehow found out shit was about to hit the fan. My grandpa on my mom's side was a mechanic for the USAF in Nam and my grandpa on my dad's side was a drill sergeant in the Marines. He also did some shit in Nam that he won't even talk about.

>>32537705
Grandpa was a Paratrooper in the South Pacific, 2-503rd to be specific. Retook Corregidor and slayed Japs until the surrender. He had several combat jumps and at least one combat amphibious assault by the end of the war.

Grandma started to enlist once she was old enough, the war ended before she finished everything.

Grandma had two enlisted uncles who fought in the 6th SS, a third was a Luftwaffe pilot who flew Stukas. All three survived the war.

They were going to put my grandma's family in an internment camp because they were first generation German immigrants who had family still in Germany. The only thing that prevented that were grandma's brothers enlisting (none of whom were allowed to serve in Europe).

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>>32537705
My family comes from the mountains of northeast GA (Rabun County) Mom's Dad was in Europe, non front line from what I'm told. He survived and came back to end up help building several dams for GA Power. However, that was her second husband. Her first husband died on D Day. They told her how he died and where, and where he was buried. They said he stepped on a landmine, and Grandma received a package with his effects. In the package was a wedding ring. Grandma and her first husband were married in fact married, but he did not have a ring. It must have been a fucking bloodbath and some poor SOB was trying to match body parts to bury and made a mistake. In the mid 90's my Grandma and all 7 of her children went to Europe for vacation, but mainly to take flowers to leave on his grave. I hope to make it there one day too to pay my respects. Pic is right down stream of 2 of the dams Grandpa helped build.

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>>32542689
Crap, sorry for my typos there. It's late.

>>32542514
Forgot to mention that my step uncle was in the army rangers. I think he might have been in Operation Just Cause but I'm not entirely sure. My uncle on my mom's side was in the Navy sometime in the late 90's or early 2000's and worked with communications. My mom's uncle served with the Marines in Nam, I haven't heard what he did exactly though.

>>32537705

My great grandfather killed Japs in the Philippines. He was also allegedly in a Jap prison camp for some time.

Nothing.

When the war started my grandfather was 4 years old, and my grandmother wasn't even born yet.

>>32537705

Grandfather was a typist and clerk in a HQ unit. Basically spent most of the war on leave or extended furloughs as he was in charge of all the rostering and leave applications. He had a lovely war. They even made him give back his rifle prior to D Day so some dumb fucker grunt could use it storming the beaches and shit.

Great grandfather on my dad's mom's side was a lead machinist on the USS Idaho. He was 32 when the war started and decided to enlist. He was the oldest man on the boat except for the captain, so they all called him "Gramps". He got to be present for basically every major sea battle in the Pacific theater, but missed the Japanese Surrender because he got sent somewhere for training. He served a few more years after the war and then went on to become a machinist for Boeing. At some point during the war his ship got hit by a kamikaze, and my dad inherited a little plastic baggie of bits and a tiny piece of red and white fabric that he picked up off the deck when they were cleaning it up.

Great grandfather on my dad's dad's side was too young to enlist when the war started, but lied and enlisted anyways. He became an Anti-aircraft gunner on a boat that fought at the battle of the Aleutians. He fought elsewhere too, but I don't really remember off the top of my head.

I have an extremely unique last name, and some digging in old military records also tells me that I had a distant relative in New York who was awarded a Bronze and Silver Star for his actions in North Africa with the 1st Infantry Division which is neat.

>>32537744
Not everyone in Germany was pro-adolf presumably

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>>32537705
grandad removed best koreans in one of these

>>32537705 my grandfather was a airforce interpreter for the flying tigers..towards the end of the war he was also involved in spying on the japanese. he could read and write in chinese and japanese.

My grandfather was an airplane mechanic for the marines in the pacific theater.
I never had a chance to talk to him about it because of distance and family politics.
He'd probably seen some shit; I feel pretty bad I never got a chance to hear his stories.

> be Russian
> 5 men from family went into war
> 1 returned
> crawled into a bottle for the rest of his life and never talked about any of it

>>32537705
My great grandfather and one of his sons (Indo-Dutch colonists) were put on a Japanese prison ship that got torpedoed by the British.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/junyopg1.html

>>32537705
Grandfather rescued those 101 boys after they went and got themselves surrounded. Bonafide Nazi-killer.

Apparently grenades are heavy and being strafed isn't fun.

>>32537705

My grandfather on my mother's side was a sonar operator on ADAK island in the Aleutian islands and an escort destroyer (USS Diachenko) in the Pacific theater.

My grandfather on my father's side was a "B-17 mechanic" in Burma. I put that in quotes because it was complete BS. He was awarded two bronze stars from the USAAF and a commendation from Chiang Kai-shek himself. I doubt that was done repairing B-17 engines. He never did tell us what he actually did there. Later after the war he served under and became friends with Curtis LeMay in SAC. Again, he never said what he did there, but my grandmother and dad, with my grandpa of course, were often invited to have dinner with Lemay and his senpai. He passed away before we could get the real story out of him. We will prob never figure out what his actual job in the military was.

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>>32537705
My grandfather was a french combat medic and was made prisonner.

Now I am a National-Socialist, and I think most veterans would be too, if they saw the results of WW2.

>>32543377
its possible some of it was classified..or may still be. my grandfather was active in the sam theatre and some of his later war shit was classifed for a while.

>>32537705
Grandfather was at Normandy. Never mentioned what he did but he was probably a specialist of some sort because he carried an M1 carbine rather than a Garand.

Mom's grandpa was farmer with like 13 kids. Canada had a essential services exemption so none of them went to ww2. I play cribbage qith my grandpa all the time and get stories about him and his childhood. The only rime he ever say his dad cry was when canada declared war on germany for ww2 because he thought he was going to lose some kids in the war.

Dad's dad spent ww2 in south east asia. He's dutxh so i assume dutch indies. Not allowed to ask him about it and he's never brought it up. "Its a part of his life that he wants to forget" says my Oma. Dad says all he knows is his dad was REALLY good with a rifle and says when he asked where he learnt to shoot he says he used to shoot monkeys in the trees for target practice.

>>32543502
The national socialists were the worst of the fascists, hardly better than the Soviet Union.

>>32537705
Grandfather in the Philippines spied on gooks in Leyte. Got him free citizenship.

>>32537705
My mothers dad was coast guard patrolling in Florida on horseback looking for submarines, he also tested shark repellent.

My fathers father was navy and drove landing boats. Got shit twice on one landing. He didn't really talk about his service that much.

Most of my family have been in the navy but my Uncle was a field medic in the Korean War and we had someone serve during the First World War but he also never talked about it

>>32543759
I was served this version for almost all my life before I understood that medias/school are criminal liers, and decided to understand the truth on the interwebs. But thx anyway...

Both my grandpas were slightly too young to go to WWII but they were both in Korea.

>>32543820
*shot. Fucking phone

>>32543826
The truth is that the Nazi's broke their own system, I speak knowing what Speer and countless other officials knew, not what they teach you in school.

>>32537705
Mother's side served in the Western front. Found a dog in France, it was small enough to keep in his bag. He kept it there and fed it scraps from his MREs, buddies helped him sneak it home. It only took commands in French which was pretty neat.

Grandfather on father's side was sent to the Pacific and on the boat over we dropped the bombs.

Grandpa enlisted at 17 in 45 and trained as medic, didn't see any action because war ended before he was sent anywhere interesting.

Other grandpa enlisted at 18 also as a medic but in 43. Was in France for the breakout saw a lot of fucked up shit. He said he could tell which bombers were just by listening to the engines because the German ones always knocked because of bad fuel.

Great Uncle was in a rifle company idk much about him but he took a rifle round to his hand, he always wore a glove and his hand was super fucked up because of it.

Other great uncle was 14 when the war ended.

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>>32543502
Go back to >>>/pol/ and be a cunt there

>>32537705
One Grandfather was 442nd, other was in a camp, joined the airforce after the war.

Great grandpa was fighting with the nazis in greece Bulgarian here. I remember him showing me his rusted mp40 when i was a kid.

My maternal grandfather was a cavalry officer for the Nationalist Chinese where he faught Japs and Commies.

The civil war broke him and he was sort of a deadbeat after the retreat to Taiwan and no one asked about his service. My uncle apparently owns his sword but I've never seen it

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Uncle fought in Africa and Sicily, don't know much more about his experiences, moved to Canada after the war, 3rd from the right top row

My rooftop grandfather was part of the anti nip resistance movement before and during ww2 in korea. He never wanted to talk about what he did since he said it wasn't an honorable acts, even in the name of freedom. Some bits my grandmother told me were things like crashing formal meetings and organizing protest movements, but my other family members say otherwise.
One of my great uncle tells me that he specialized in sneaking out important document and forging letters to fuck with the nips, while my dad briefly told me that he got into lot of shady shit like abduction and assassinations.

Maternal Grandfather was a "Conscientious objector" who deployed as a medic in japan during WW2. Supposedly he picked up a rifle when while of his unit were dying and killed 2 japanese soldiers. I didn't here the story until his funeral, my mom is garbage and was ashamed by it..
My paternal GF was a first generation born German-American who Joined to prove his loyalty. (what happened to nationalism) He was a cook on a destroyer and earned a distinguished service medal for taking over a gunner position when the sailor who was assigned couldn't. I'm not sure what happened to the first guy.

>>32543891
I think you're on the wrong board.
Here, let me link it for you:
>>>/lgbt/
>>>/mlp/

>>32537705
Grandpa drove a tank in the pacific. Brought back a very cool Nambu Type 14 pistol and a Japanese officers sword. I heard two deferring stories from family how he got them, his official story was he paid $20 to a buddy of his at the time and had him "bring him back something cool from the front"; the story some of his friends told me at his funeral, apparently their tank got disabled and grandpa proceeded to remove Japanese kebab with little mercy. I think the first story was more likely, but Grandpa loved fighting when he was younger, so who knows.

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>>32537705
My grandfather was a medic during the second world war... I don't think he intentionally killed anyone though. image kinda related, its not a picture of him.

>>32543872
Yeah, if by "breaking their own system" you mean having almost the whole world ally in a war against them.

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>Be me
>Be proud Okie with native and southern roots.
>connect with great aunt last year who holds the family records.
>"anon your great great great great uncle was in the civil war did you know that?"
>Omgggggg
>He fought for the union.

Besides that i have a couple uncles and cousins on my mom's side that were nam. One never came back):
Grandpa and his brother were enlisted in the 50's .
great uncle got the bronze star and made it to Sgt maj . I'm the record keeper on my dad's side because most of his side that are still alive are drunk crazy indians and I have my great uncle's discharge papers now.
I wear his m55 field jacket from the 70's If any of you are familiar with unit patches of Rangers / airborne please tell me because I'm trying to figure out what the diagonal lines patch on the jacket is.

>>32538583
People like you would of gotten your nose, lips, ears cut off along with your eye gouged off and limbs if you'd ever would of gotten caught by partisans, and maybe they'd stuff your junk into your mouth too.

Grandfather got drafted into the red army, got injured badly in the Caucase mountains. When he healed his unit was already encircled and destroyed so he got reassigned budie to his experience and lack it was some field intelligence unit that was front line but less expendable than those human wave infantry. Participated in the battles for Warsaw and Berlin for which he has medals. After the victory he stayed for few years in Germany, as part of the occupation force (including a time as military governor of some small town that had a beer factory). During this time he made his personal peace with the Germans, even though his was Jewish and his parents and wife were killed by them.

>>32537705
the chances of that being true are astoundingly small
grandad was wounded at Dunkirk by a luftwaffe bomb but he met my gran (a nurse) so thanks Hitler! He recovered, fought through north africa and at Monte Casino. Great-grandfather was wounded at the Somme but survived.
>>32537961
yeah, servicemens wives.
>>32538022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Dad's dad fought in Belgium then saw combat in the Ardennes with the 84th Railsplitters, he was an Ivy League engineering student before being drafted. Ended up running the parts department at a Ford dealership afterwards and never went back to college due to alcoholism/PTSD/starting a family.
Mom's dad drove a truck in the pacific and won a bunch of cool war trophies in poker games, all of which were sold in Mexican pawn shops in the 90's by my grandma's brothers after grandpa got alzheimers. He dug his own grave, marrying a Mexican and such. I have his old guitar though.

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>>32544210
What kind of piece of shit do you have to be to find these torture a good thing?

These things happened in the past, but what's coming next is the day of the rope for bums like you.

>>32539257
He fucked them in the ass, man. The ASS!

>>32544172
Well, they could have just stopped at Alsace territory in the west and Austria/Hungary in the east, but apparently all of France and Poland were too juicy to resist and fighting two world powers was worth it.

>>32544300
>day of the rope
We are talking about things that more or less actually happened, surely there is a fantasy thread in /pol/ you can take this to.

>>32537705
My great grandfather was and stayed around Stalingrad. Another great grandfather removed baguette in Verdun and returned. Both my grandfathers where children in ww2.

>>32544314

-France declared war on Germany before its invasion.

-German civilians were getting tortured and murdered in Poland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6dwgOzvas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhbpcMdKZi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXkb4fO_22o

>>32537705
Both grandfathers were merchants
But my uncles on mom's side killed gommies, one as an airborne, another a tankist and another was in the air force and just dropped shit on them almost never hitting anything because lol guerilla

A lot of the stories in this thread sound like complete bullshit.

Had an uncle who was in 'Nam. He used to tell this story about being a fresh-faced young man newly deployed, and made to chop a trail with a machete.

He'd chop, and chop, and then he thought he heard noise.

Stop.

No noise.

This keeps up for some time, chop, stop, listen... resume chopping, until he bumps almost literally into a Vietnamese kid, no more than 15-16, who was on the same kind of detail, but chopping the other way.

Ostensibly, they both cursed(or he did, and the kid yelled something, who knows what) in their respective languages and ran back the way they came, to get support.

However, the way he told it makes me think that this was the 'sanitized' version, and he perhaps killed that kid.

Died of pancreatic cancer in the early '90s, so I can't actually follow up.

Be children and nearly starve to death in the winter of '44-'45

>>32539676
He spent 14 years in the prison camps, but I think it's more of a mix of prison camps and refugee camps, most years spent during the fall of Saigon.

He escaped Vietnam, met my mom when she worked as a Vietnamese/Chinese to English translator in California.
As a man who made a family for himself in America, he doesn't want me to witness the actual struggles of war. So he's extremely against me joining any sort of military.

I go with him to the range every now and then, he swears the 1911 is the best American handgun you can get. At age 67, he's a pretty good shot with it.

They were running from the japanese after their family wealth and home got fucked. Came back after the war, built it all up again, only to get fucked once more by communism.

>>32537705
I have decent military history family in my but my grandparents were too young to fight in ww2.

My grandfather was in the marines after the war. The only thing he told me is that a year before him some kid died in training so he had it relatively easy

My step-grandad (is that the right term?) was part of the wild weasels and trained pilots for the shah and a couple others. He said that the italians were the worst pilots he'd ever seen

Lastly I had a great uncle who lied about his age to buy a farm and got caught up in the great war.

>>32544340
>German civilians were getting tortured and murdered in Poland.
>German civilians
>in Poland
The lines were drawn when they lost the war in 1918, apparently one loss didn't send the message. Also, if the Germans cared so much about the Polish, why sign a treaty with the Bolsheviks to split the country with them? The poles acted out of their own self interest after seeing the Germans break the treaty of Versailles rearming themselves and doing their usual number of plans to grab clay when they didn't have a chance in hell of holding it.

>>32537705
Great-grandpa took part in the invasion of Italy, was shot like half a dozen times but was fine. Spent the rest of his working life as a trucker. Died last January.

>>32537705
My grandfather tricked the krauts to help him drive away the ruskies and then he drove the krauts away. Guess my country

>>32538022
the guy who made the apollo 12 for the americans was the same guy who made the v2 for the germans. look it up

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>>32537705
>grandpa 1
Reserved occupation as a concert pianist, so just toured the country giving recitals etc. Ostensibly for morale, but he made a good amount of money as well.

>grandpa 2
Aircraft engineer.

Nearest male relative to see action was a great uncle, posted in Burma and S.India, and later in Palestine in 1945, not actually sure what he did, as he never spoke about his experiences.

Had a great great great grandfather as a German Captain I believe either during or right before WWI.
My grandpa was in Nam but never ever talks about it. My mom doesn't even know anything about his service.

>>32537705
My dad's dad didn't serve in WW2, however, he did serve in the Korean war. I've never asked him how many Koreans he killed.

My dad on the other hand, was in desert storm as a fighter pilot in the air force. He flew the A10 and according to the government, has 39 confirmed kills. He says he has over 50 kills though, so who knows.

I don't know if they killed anyone, but my grandf and great uncle were in ww2, my great uncle brought home an arisaka, a katana, a flag of the rising sun with Japanese writing on it, and some pictures of the damage done to Hiroshima, and him with a Japanese qt.

My grandfather on mom's side was trying to come home until a ship came and denied that. The ship was torpedoed by the krauts, and he lived to tell the tale. Told mom about hearing all the men who were trapped in their rooms, screaming his name, going to drown to death.

He made it out, but with shrapnel damage and violent attitude, and a deep hatred for Nazis.

Tl;dr, I have no idea if any of them killed krauts or Japs themselves but they damn sure saw it.

>>32538022
This is why we have the hurr durr ameridumb memes. It's because of people like you. Fuck you. Educate yourself.

>>32538457
Respect.

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>>32537705
>killed the good guys
>proud

>>32537705
I'm pretty sure my Grandpa was a combat engineer, helping build bridges and such to transport vehicles and artillery. He got a couple purple hearts.

>>32544507
Grandfathers*

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>>32537705
Grandparent was in the partisans,but his brother or was with the SS.

>>32537705
Trying not to starve in Russia/Chilling in the Urals eating fish as teens, but my great-grandfather commanded a t-34 throughout the Eastern Front (ie Kursk, Warsaw, others), also Prague and capture of Berlin. Then got stationed there for some years before becoming a teacher back in Russia.

Sadly this is only about a third of what we KNOW, which is largely based on the remaining medals we have of his, and he never liked to talk about the war so we don't have a lot of stories to go off of either.

Great grandfather fought on red army, supposedly died at Stalingrad (no way to know for sure). He was shot during the winter war and was kinda old to be drafted but they weren't picky at that point.
My grandfathers step brothers story is more interesting, he was 15 when the Germans massacred his family, lied about his age to join the military, and made it all the way to Berlin. Hopefully he raped lots of germans.

Everyone in this story is jewish btw :)

>>32537705
My grandpas brother survived the siege of Leningrad
After that he raped and pillaged his way to Berlin, where he raped and pillaged some more, killed civilians with bricks when he got drunk.
Also forced a man to watch his wife getting raped.
I cant believe people like that got medals in the end.

>>32537705

My maternal grandfather was just some dude, his only combat encounter of WW2 was when he got strafed by fighter planes trying to scrounge up food during the Dutch Winter Famine.

The other grandpa was ALSO just some dude who spent the entire war in a Jap internment camp in the Dutch East Indies. He was a Jew so he got off relatively light - supposedly the Germans requested him to be extradited to Europe for 'processing' but the Japs were like 'ror no' because they didn't care about some Jewish menace.

A great-uncle of mine participated in the Dutch Railway Strikes and I've still got his medal hanging on the wall, along with the certificate of authenticity.

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>>32537705
My Great grandfather James was one of the first people to liberate Belsen concentration camp, he was in the royal engineers and drove one of the trucks that took troops inside it.
My grandma told me that after the war he was stationed with a german family, and the father of the family was at the Russian front. and one night at dinner James asked him about his time fighting, and the german started shaking and just kept saying "Russisch nicht gut" over and over.

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>>32537705
i have no idea, but he got this before ww2

>>32544094
>Not realizing /k/ has a very large faggot population and a sizable horse fucker population

>>32537705
A flak helper doesnt really have the chance to kill anyone
But he probably assisted in shooting down a few brits

>>32538599
Put that to good use and make many white children

>>32537705
>ostfront 41-43
>injured, captured and gulag'd from 43-46
>worked 12hr shifts hauling bricks in the ruins of stuttgart

Great-grandfather on one side of the family was in the 82nd and dropped into France during D-Day. Visited his uncle's WW1 grave in France and banged some European ladies, including my great-grandmother whom eventually immigrated to the US from France. Other great-grandfather and his brother were in the Navy. Great-granduncle lost his right leg to a Jap grenade in '45.

Grandfather was in an artillery brigade of the 101st during Vietnam. Uncle was in the 82nd during Desert Storm.

>>32544664
And according to my grandmother and both my mother and aunt he never said a single word to any of them about the war or his imprisonment.

>>32544618
Kys kike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96bmzkJvA8

>>32544641
>Projecting your sickness on a whole board

>>32538406
My grandma told me he hid it somewhere but he never told her where. I don't think he told the ruskies either.

>>32537705

My grandfather on my father's side was an electrician on a destroyer, not sure which one, but it was based in Cammel Lairds. Didn't really have any interesting stories, stayed working there after the war, got a decent pay-out a few years before he died due to asbestos related fuckery.

On my mother's side, my grandad was in the RAF, stationed in Egypt for the most part, but moved around the East a bunch judging by the collection of foreign coins & notes he gave me as a kid.

He flew a Spitfire, don't know how many kills he got, as I was only 5 or 6 when he died, and he'd been told to stop telling us stories by my nana after he told us about how one of his friends killed himself by turning the engine on in his Spitfire, getting out and walking into the propeller.

He ended up as a carpenter post-war, even when he had cancer and was near-death, he'd still carve and whittle shit in the garden. Whilst smoking, which, ya know, wasn't advised by the doctors.

He used to put together model planes in his spare time too, and every now and then he'd give me one to take him with me. Being a stupid kid, I'd play with them and eventually end up breaking them, kinda wish I'd kept better care of them now. All I have left now is a Hawker Hurricane with a wheel missing.

>>32544300
What kind of spineless and limp wristed brute dose one have to be to rape innocent women and kill a bunch of innocent people provoking many to join the partisans. And you think that's based? And I'll say again. Partisans mutilated germans killers dead or alive and red army soldiers shot SS prostitutes on sight. That was karma for murder of millions of civilians and destroying their home and property.

And no, the day of the rope isn't destined for me, but brutes whoever they may be anywhere in the world who delight in rape and then cutting up their victim like krauts did to Polish women deserve every bit of pain and gruesome torture they can get.

>>32544734
Meant for
>>32539025

>>32537705
My grand father was a pattern maker. Kind of a tool maker/prototyper of machine parts. During WWII he was an aircraft mechanic in the RAAF and fixed planes on the home front. Went up a few times in test flights apparently. I don't believe he was in Darwin when the Japanese attacked it so he probably never got very close to the front.

French here, my grand-father has never talked very much about the war, all i know is that he was on the Maginot line, he killed a few germans and then was POW in Germany during the rest of the war.

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>>32537705
My grandfather fought for the Axis in WW2, and did so well, Hitler gave a very special mention for his battalion. (St Laszlo's battalion.) A nice thorn in the Commie's sides.
Years later, he became a doctor, and treated anti-communist rebels, in a revolution. The Commies tried to shoot him during the battles. You DON'T SHOOT DOCTORS, BOLSHEVIST SCUM!
This is /k/, so onto guns:
Being rather high ranking in the battalion, it's most likely he used a danuvia 39m. (pictured) Chambered in 9x25 mauser, it has the recoil of a .45acp, with greater accuracy than an MP40.
40 round magazines, 12.5 rounds per second, lovely recoil, sights to 800m, and strict quality control. Everybody who used it, loved it. Anyone who ran out of ammo, and picked up a PPSH, was disappointed by PPSH's jamming, and awkward shape.

>>32538541
hero !

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>>32544760
>rape innocent women and kill a bunch of innocent people
Red Army

murder of millions of civilians and destroying their home and property
>Communism

>delight in rape and then cutting up their victim
Red Army.

Didn't you idiot know that all the soldiers fighting for the Reich were to be hung or shot if they commited atrocities or even looting? I'm not denying that some rape or revenge shooting of some civilian never happened, but it probably wasn't 3% of what the red army of rapists (pic related) did.

>>32537705
My grandfather flew those amphibious planes in the pacific doing pilot and ship crew rescue

>>32537744
You know that there were a fair number of germans who weren't all on board with the whole facism thing and didn't worship hitler's dick, commies had it particularly bad and there were a couple groups that got organized and trained by the soviets.

>>32537705
My grandpa was ordered to fuck his way through Saigon to weed out female VC

Grandfather was a SEAL, ended up becoming a contract killer for the government afterwards lmao

I don't have any sort of proof, but I've seen his uniform and medals and shit. Didn't think to take pictures.

My great great great great grandfather Heinrich Husch was a Hessian who fought in the Revolutionary War. After the war he settled in South Carolina (not sure if POW or defected) and married a Shawnee woman

>>32544938
You do also realize in Berlin there's an account of a general who shot soldiers for rape? So according to your logic there was no rape in Berlin and also stop being so naive ffs. That quote that Ehrenburg said was during the winter of 41/42 after viewing the destruction and desolation of the town of Rzhev were most of the population was taken to Germany to work in factories and the rest couple hundred civilians they barricaded in a church and mined the place making the old civilians stay there for like 4 days without food and water until red army sappers freed them. But you don't care about that do you? If you think that he was a typical kike for saying that which many non jews agreed with then according to your logic tens of millions of Slavs today are kikes as well who are probably worthy of genocide as you probably wish just because after being fucked over by bolshevism they hated the germans who massacred them mercilessly as well.

>>32539255
kriegers don't cry

>>32537980
My grandad was in the occupation of Berlin post ww2. He got there in '46. He didn't get into shenanigans and served his time without any spectacular achievements or failures. Is that the kind of service record you want to hear about on a Lithuanian cartography forum?

>>32543502
>I think most veterans would be too, if they saw the results of WW2.

Most of the veterans DID see the results of WWII, and many became right-wing nationalists in behalf of their own countries.

The whole "national socialist" idea OTOH is proven militarily broken by history because dictatorship leads to less effective war, fear to innovate, and fear of challenging fucked up military systems. Nazi propaganda made them look much better than they were in practice, and IMO if they had ugly uniforms no one would give a shit. Always beware of salesmanship. There are no pure motives because humans don't work like that, and adopting OLD military-political ideologies is not innovation, it's fossilization.

France has been crippled (in military-ideological terms, hence /k/ relevant) by the destruction of many of its nationalists in WWII when they backed the wrong Vichy horse. The French here might speak to post-WWII Communists settling scores. The Algerian debacle (standoff, Morice Line worked but the fighting blowback into metropolitan France negated that) and OAS vs de Gaulle ensured only a few French nationalists remained. Maybe they'll grow back as the unconventional kebab war continues, and it is a war.

Western Europe post-Berlin Wall has no coherent self-image. The old ways were a bloody net loss. Perhaps a unifying external + internal unconventional opponent will result in a new military-police-public security vision. NATO sorely needs it.

>>32544172
The military list of Nazi SYSTEMIC military mistakes is long and impressive. Emotional attachment to a "good guy/bad guy" model is childish. Politicians should leave war to the generals (and admirals).

BTW adding the US to their opponents by declaring war was incredibly stupid. Otherwise the US could have been focused on the Japs while merely supplying England. Failure to build submarines and wasting resources on surface combatants is more epic systemic stupidity. Also no strategic bombers worthy of the name and banning development of strategic bombers. Sooner or later even fanbois can't ignore all that and more. Countries don't lose wars by accident.

Be extremely careful of falling for romantic ideas. Romance is for women and destroys critical thinking. Wanting to identify with "something different" is also kiddie-think.

Systems should be coldly examined as systems, just as one would study ancient Rome or Sparta. Feels have no place in the study of war.

>>32544349
>pancreatic cancer

Common result of Agent Orange exposure.

>>32544482
>He flew the A10 and according to the government, has 39 confirmed kills. He says he has over 50 kills though, so who knows.

Ground target kills can be hard to verify because Desert Storm-era vidya recorders were primitive compared to today. (I was an engine troop on F-16s at Al Dhafra and deployed to KKMC to turn sorties and hot refuel). He's probably telling the truth about the kill count since Warthogs got plenty close to their targets.

He might like this site which is excellent. He'll recognize many of the aircraft and be familiar with the battle damage.

http://www.2951clss-gulfwar.com/

A-10s were not far down the ramp from me and taxi'ed by my spot everyday. The variety of kill stencils was epic. :)

>>32544620
>I cant believe people like that got medals in the end.

I can. Who wouldn't take all the revenge they could get away with no matter what side they were on? Forget whatever you were socially conditioned to believe, and contemplate what Leningrad was like under seige. Watching your fellow citizens hunt rats for food and still die of starvation had to be motivating.

Courage and morality only intersect by accident, and morality is subjective. That's one reason /k/ tries to keep /polshit/ in /pol/ otherwise we could't properly study history.

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>>32537705
Your grandpa is in hell, I hope you know that.

>Grandpa fought russian shits on the eastern front.
>Shot a few with a MG42, hacked some with a sharpened shovel.
>Shot a surrendering russian tank team after they had driven over his friend and someone disabled the tank.
>Had to scrape his friend out of the tank-tracks. >Carried a injured soldier for miles on his back. >Lost an eye and most of his sight in the other eye thanks to a grenade.
>Missed the plane that was supposed to fly him to a Berlin hospital by a few minutes.
>That plane was shot down, everyone inside died.
>He celebrated his "second birthday" with a doctor

>>32544774
>Kind of a tool maker/prototyper of machine parts.

Specifically a pattern maker would have made patterns for sand casting as that was by far the most common casting method. It's HIGHLY skilled woodwork among other things. Many WWII repair shops even had mobile small foundries. There was a lot more "craftsmanship" involved then because war machines were simpler and most parts were designed for machining on manual milling machines, lathes and shapers. Fascinating stuff.

>>32544968
Probably PBY Catalinas. My mother helped build those and was happy to GTFO rural Oregon. Her inspection stamps likely remain in some surviving aircraft, but I never saw a pic so I can't ID the stamp. I inherited her mechanical ability which is nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina

>>32544379

Your dad seems awesome.

>>32537715
10/10 uncle, would smoke cigars with

>>32544201
Could you post a pic of the jacket?

grandpa was to young just told me many stories how they played with leftover amunition after war
they build firecrackers and makeshift bombs

great grandpa was a doctor at the german luftwaffe he died before my dead only thing i have from him is a huge green woodchest
with the sign luftwaffe

my grandpas were all to young and my great grandpas were farmers or priests (no draft) in germany
but my nightbour told me some swas in the africa corps
only story he told me was
> they sepparated the group
>hans if you go there you get food
>if you go on this side you dont get food
>he had luck because someone warned him
>food was for a special mision
>no one who decided for food was seen again

1 grandfather was part of the merchant navy HMS forfar and got sunk by u99. He lived but lost an eye and some fingers.

Other one checked around airfields making sure standards were kept

My great grandfather fought in the Second Battle of Guam, and on Iwo Jima. Post-War, my grandfather met some of his dad's war buddies, and they said that they have never met a fucker who was meaner with a knife than his father.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what he carried and what he went through, but I never met him, and he never tslked much to my grandpa about the war.

My grandpa, however, did some months in Vietnam as a Marine. I've heard a lot of his service stories.

>>32545343
That's pretty neat. I'll show him that. He was part of the Flying Tigers.

>>32545380
Such a hero is in Walhalla.

>>32537705
Paternal grandfather was an Army TSgt in WWII, worked on planes or something. Very talented baseball player. Played baseball with some of the enlisted pros in the Phillipines for the entertainment of the guys pretty regularly.
Maternal grandfather worked in helos during Korea, I think. I have a bunch of his war maps.

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>>32537705
Grandfather on my Dad's side was too young to really do much. Joined the Navy at the tail end of the war, was a Fireman on a Destroyer and did a few patrol tours up and down the west coast right at the end.

Got sent to New York once with forty other guys, before he was assigned to his ship, in a clerical error. Forty Typewriters had been ordered, Forty Men were sent. He said it was a long train ride there and back from the West Coast. He's still around, but not doing too great.

Grandfather on my Mother's side enlisted in the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor. He was an Aircraft Engine Mechanic and spent most of the war on the French Island of New Caledonia repairing and overhauling aircraft engines sent there from all over the Pacific.

Never saw any real action. Said they got visited by Japanese Recon Aircraft a few times at night and the AAA would let loose but they never shot anything down.

Got a ride in a PBY Catalina once.

He nearly drowned after encountering a Man'O War Jelly while swimming. Managed to make it back to shore and was helped out of the surf by his buddies.

Stayed in the Aviation Maintenance world after the war, worked for PAN AM and the USAF as a contractor.

While he was out on NC during the war he carved a beach scene and his name on a coconut that he polished up as a neat keepsake. He gave it to me. Passed away in 2010. Sure do miss him.

>>32537799
>Dad sold it
This fucking pisses me off
My great grandfather was army, not sure what unit but he was badass as far as i've heard from family members.

>One of the first infantry divisions into Germany
>Turned a corner and a German soldier was facing him, the German's rifle 10 feet away from him in a corner. Great Grandpa raises his rifle and pulls the trigger but the German was able to direct the barrel away from his by hitting the side of the rifle. THe German tackled my greatgpa and punched the shit out of him, just kept punching.
>Great Gpa grabs the German's Luger from his belt, puts it to the German's head and pulls the trigger.
>He took that Luger home

I don't know the stories of how he brought back a couple nazi flags and a few medals from an officer but that happened to at some point during the war.
My great Gpa is dead now and as soon as he died. My great uncle who is now removed from the family because of this, sold all of his stuff to feed his gambling addiction.

My grandpa was drafted into the Italian army right before the Italians switched sides. His part of the army was still in German territory when the switch happened. Luckily for him he wasn't sent to a prison camp since he was a farmer. They would send him to help out on a German farm. The family that ran the farm liked him so much that they offered to marry their daughter to him. Not the most operator story but still pretty cool.