Family story thread

>tfw no grandparents served during wartime
>tfw one of them even got dishonorably discharged during training

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>>34329608
Grandfather Bong.
> 1937 Enlisted
> 1939 wars starts
> 1940 at Dunkirk
> Gets sent to Alexandria in North africa, thinking there wont be a war there
> September 1940 italians attack
> December 1940 Goes on the offensive against the italians
> December 1941, gets assigned to Singapore, thinking there won't be a war there.
> December 7th is the day he literally stepped foot on that ship
> Febuary 1942 the ship is in india when singapore falls
> Gets assigned to burma
> 1942 fight in burma
> 1943 gets assigned to a group known as the chindits
> 3 months of hell, before they get orders to fall back to india
> Grandfather bong gets separated from his group
> Starving & without food, he uses his grenades to kill fish
> Grandfather bong gets into a one man firefight with a japanese platoon
> Hearing the gunfire some natives find him & take him back to their village
> Give him food, & send him on his way
> Makes it back to british lines
> Breaks into a restaurant and starts cooking food
> MPs turn up and arrest him on desertion.
> Gets put into penal unit digging foxholes as no one can verify his story, as he's one of the first chindits to arrive back
> Hits an officer with an entrenching tool when my malnourished grandfather bong can't dig as much as the others
> Japanese army is moving in on town
> All the MP's are sent to the front to prevent a breakthrough
> Grandfather bong, imprisoned in a penal unit is promoted and made part of the MPs
> Since he's in no state to fight they put him in charge of the japanese prisoners
> Japanese prisoners are now all police officers, given a bamboo stick and policing the populace so they don't commit sudoku
> Story finally gets verified & is released & sent on 3 months leave (which wasn't a problem as he was a brit born in india)
> Late 1943 Goes on the offensive to kick the japs outta burma
> Fights at the battle of kohima
> fights through burma
> Gets on ship to retake Singapore
> War ends
cont.

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>Russian grandfather
>Enlisted in 1941
>Died in Stalingrad

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>>34329608
Was only told stories about my great uncle Bart. Not very /k/, but war is hell I guess.

>Served as courier of some sort during pacific campaign
>Left as the nicest guy on the planet
>Came back angry and drunk
>Grandma stopped letting my dad and the rest of her kids visit him when he started making his daughters stand on top of the dinner table until they pissed themselves
>Dad told me he was a "sexual deviant" and left it at that.

I had an Uncle that was at the Chosin Reservoir. I showed him my Mosin one time and he started talking about mowing down chinks and the whistling they did to signal an attack. He said that after a while he sort of felt bad for killing so many of them.

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>>34330250
> After war
> Gets put into a unit for taking Japanese prisoners & separating those from certain units wanted for war crimes for immediate execution
> Puts them all into camps made for commonwealth prisoners
> Ends up as staff driver (because not everyone could drive back then) & bodyguard for bill slim nonetheless
> Later went on to serve in korean war, aden, throwing commies out of malaya.
When he died we were going through his things & found this, apparently his brother was at singapore when it fell
> never bought an item made in japan, would go off in rants about how he was in burma ect. and how they deserved to get nuked of the face of the earth

Never looked fully dressed unless he had a cup of tea in his hand, reason being tea was the only reliable thing they could get in the jungle, everything else rotted before it got to them.

other grandfather bong
> served in 5th RTR "the filthy fifth" royal tank regiment,
> France 1940
> North africa
> Sicily
> italy
> Normandy
> germany
Only one of about 20 member of the regiment to survive the war start to end without being disabled
Later served in korean war.

great grandfather bong (was born in the sudan as part of the baggage train during the battle of omdurman)
> officer in trenches of ww1
> fought in 3rd Anglo-afghan war
> Remove jihad from northwest frontier for 20 years
> Fought in second world war as regimental CO in an indian army regiment.

Grandmother bong (his wife)
> In the army in the Blitz as an AA gunner
> Survived a bombing
> Dad won a monkey during a card game
> Family lived next door to a church that was being used as a refugee centre when it got hit by either a V1 or V2.
> Sister was badly burned when V weapon struck church next door, fire place went all over her.

Grandmother Bongs Brother
> On HMS norfolk when she took on the sharnhorst, gniesneau, & scheer, then the bismark , then the scharnhorst again

>>34330347

All of grandparents brothers served in the war.
Grandfather lost 2 brothers to conflict
Other grandfather lost 3 brother

All great grandparents served in WW1, with their brothers.

great great grandfather fought all over the empire including omdurman
great great great great grandfather was born in Portugal or Spain during peninsular war.

Before that they were all over Canada, one married a squaw from the Iroquois

All the way back to the English civil war my family have been soldiers, this ancestor being a captain in the army of eastern association.

Before that they were warlord knights.

Next up Daddy bong.

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>>34329608
>Great uncle served in WW2 as a tail gunner on a B-17
>got shot down over Germany during a bombing run
>tail broke off from the rest of the plane
>his boots got caught up in some wires
>pulled his chute and it ripped his boots off
>landed in a briar patch in Germany in the middle of winter in 1944
>only person of the 10 man crew to survive
>only ever bitched about his feet being cold as they marched him to the POW camp
>went on to work for NASA after the war

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>Gramps
>Royal Hungarian Army, WW2
>Despatch rider
>Shot in the leg in Translyvania in 1944 while speeding along
>Fucking rides on and delivers the message
>Has a slight, barely noticeable limp for the rest of his life
>pic related, not him, could have been

He had some stories like this, many of them involve pain and a motorcycle. He loved motorcycles (he had a beautiful vintage Indian which we had to sell after he died) and tolerated pain well. He didn't tolerate commies though and tolerated stupid people even less. When my father was a kid he slingshotted and broke one of the windows of a particularly dumb neighbour whom Gramps particularly despised for the unforgiveable sin of being stupid. Gradma offered the furious retard monetary compensation for the broken glass, Gramps berated my dad for not breaking his other windows as well. Anyway, more Gramps stories.

>1949
>Rural Hungary, Somogy county
>Gramps wants to cross a railway crossing with his motorbike
>Drunk policeman shows up and makes the mistake of starting shit with Gramps
>Exchange of impolite words commences
>Policeman makes an attempt at stabbing Gramps with a bayonet (cops carrying rifles were not uncommon back then in old timey Eastern Europe)
>Gramps punches him unconscious
>Official investigation
>1949 was the time of one of the shittiest dictatorships in Hungarian history and punching a policeman was not a safe thing when a joke or an unlicensed pig slaughter could get you in jail
>Gramps gets away with it, because it is still obvious that the cop was at fault for being drunk while in service and harassing and innocent civilian

I could go on.

>>34330361
Daddy Bong
>invented the water pipe with and named it after himself.
>Proceeded to become a hippie and a draft dodger.
>Sad times in the Bong family

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>>34329608
>be my grandfather
>nationalist officer during the chinese civil war
>involved in the siege of chang chun
>1948 spring
>communist troops in north easter china has stepped up their offensive
>all major cities are under siege
>supply lines are cut one by one
>nationalist surviving troops concentrations have retreated back to provincial capitals to make a last stand
>nationlists have air superiority and hope to supply besieged cities with air drops
>48 late spring
>communists troops have pushed close to the city
>airfields outside city walls are within communists bombardment range
>sudden communist offensive directed at airfield
>airfields are lost
>communist troops have occupied airfields outside chang chun
>communist troops have surrounded chang chun in all directions
>supplies within the city can only last a few weeks
>things are betting super bad dot jay peg
>have to collect anything edible from civilians with deadly force
>endured siege for 3 months
>why don't the communists make a last push dot geef
>early october
>nothing edible left in the city
>even rats and dogs are gone
>communists cooking delicious stewed pork right out in no man's land
>dat meaty stew smell
>leads own regiment defects to communist side
>survived the chinese civil war
>married cutiepie 15 year old grandmother
>had 3 children.


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

this story is completely anecdotal, i can't be fucked verifying it
>great grandfather, ausfag, WW1 gallipoli
>medic
>after a skirmish he gets his head pinned underneath an amberlamps wheel
>can't move, cause roaches all about, they'll shoot him if they even suspect him of being alive
>stayed like that for hours
years later, likely during the events of WW2
>great gramps is spending quality time with the woman who would one day give birth to the woman that carried me into this world
>she's playing with his hair, brushing or some shit
>notices some scars on his head
>asks what they're about
>recounts story you just read

the man never told anyone anything that happened ion the war before that, or since. he died while my grandmother was still quite young

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>>34330361
>>34330406

Daddy bong
> Enlists in 1975 aged 18
> 2 Para
> numerous tours of northern ireland
> 1982 falklands war
> Advancing across bog to goose green
> Pitch black
> Going up against An Argentine paratroop unit, with support from argentine commandos, artillery and AA support.
> Marching towards goose green which is illuminated with star shells & artillery shells
> Watch A company take a house to there left flank
> Attack starts
> get pinned down twice
> Hear beloved CO "H" Jones was WIA leading a charge with A company
> Affixing of bayonets
> Here Medevac for "H" come,
> See medevac shot down by a pucara
> "H" now KIA
> Tracers & muzzle flashes & fire all that they can see
> Artillery now raining down on paras
> Two of the paras mortars fire the whole regiments mortar ammo of 1000 rounds
> Now daylight
> Pucaras dropping napalm and rockets all over the damn place
> Argentine 20mm & 35mm AA guns opens up on the regiment
> Harriers come and make a suicide attack with rockets on the AA guns to draw fire from the regiment
> Luckily attack succeeds because the paras mortars hit the radar guidance systems
> Argentine trainer gets shot down by missile
> Pucara gets downed by paras firing angrilly up at it
> Night again
> Argentine reinforcements arrive by helicopter
> most of the fuckoff or get scattered by arty
> Exhausted
> No water
> low ammo
> one ration pack for two men
> B & D compaies now missing
> offer argentines surrender or they'd flatten the entire village
> Argentines realise they are now surrounded

Fuck that shit, taking on a numerically superior entrenched force with superior positions & equal equipment & coming out with half as many casualties is a downright miracle

will cont.

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>be great grandpa
>innahungary
>around the time that crazy moustached guy wanted to take over the world
>fast forward some time, all the dates on this are really fuzzy
>CO of G-grandpa's unit has dachshunds
>"watch my fucking dachshunds while I go deal with the other unit's fuckup"
>proceed to watch dachshunds
>dachshunds are like fuck this and escape
>CO comes back to find grandpa chasing his dogs around the position, one was missing somehow, and he has like 6 guys trailing him calling for this dog
>CO yells to him, grandpa stands at attention
>CO pulls sidearm
>CO prepares to shoot grandpa in the head
>click.
>dismissed, never brought up
>found that one dachshund in an old opened shell crate
at least this is the story my aunt (his daughter) told me. fuck if I know the truth, he's dead now.
wonder what other shit he did. always wondered his unit and where he was at and shit. still have the original draft card
>pic related

>be Swiss
>Gramps on daddies side is AA gunner on some godforsaken mountain
>rumor has it his battery shot down intruding B-24
>doesn't want to talk about it
>spends 6 years on a glacier

>Gramps on mothers side is a wild man
>gets worst assignment possible
>fortress pioneer in the Rhine valley
>maintains the front trenches on the border for 6 years
>half the swiss artillery pointing at his position and up to 200k Wehrmacht 1 mile away
>makes a small fortune by poaching and bootlegging

>>34329608
>WWII, Amsterdam, somewhere around late 1941
>Occupation in full swing, resistance activities and cooperation with partisans will get you the death penalty
>So does owning a gun
>Grandfather and a few others are sitting in some bar, discussing what they can do
>It starts out as drunk bravado but gradually turns more serious
>People bring maps detailing important German positions
>Out of nowhere appears a chest with an assortment of firearms
>Grandfather gets handed a rifle
>The mood starts to get more and more violent
>Suddenly, some stupid fuck discharges a rifle into the ceiling
>The entire bar is silent within seconds
>Pretty much everyone realises that they're sitting together fawning over maps with German positions, with guns spread out throughout the bar
>People have been imprisoned, questioned by the Gestapo, shot and buried in the dunes for less
>Every patron of the bar books it as fast as possible, and the maps and guns disappear back to where they came from
>Grandfather and someone else immediately go upstairs to see where the bullet went
>On the second floor, there's two people sitting at a small table, playing a card game
>Both of them are white as a sheet
>The bullet went through the table, between the players, and lodged itself into one of the ceiling support beams
>Grandfather tells them in more that suggestive terms to keep their mouths shut about what happened here
And that's how an idiot can prevent a resistance raid all on his own.

>>34330403
Tell more about your grandpa, he seems nice

>>34330403
Please, do go on, anon.

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>be anon's papa
>entrenched in the hills of kosovo
>see OVK position a kilometer or so out, out of effective range & during cease-fire
>station commander brings forward a M93 Black Arrow
>two guys need to carry this bohemeth
>DM ranges the thing in and waits for the ceasefire to end
>albanians notice that they're checking them out, they leave their entrenched positions to wave their dicks at them and be general dickheads
>big smiles on the serb side
>it hits 1800 on the clock, ceasefire on both sides is up
>one albanian is still dancing out of his cover position
>guy gets a free face lift and arrangement to meet with Saint Peter himself
>indirect fire is exchanged between the two sides till dark

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>>34330462
> Week later take part in the battle for wireless ridge
> had to yomp across half the island to get there
> Again attacking Argentine entranced positions in the pitch black night
> And running up a fucking mountain
> this time nearly flatten the ridge
> Walking Barrage too.
> Jump into a foxhole
> Hear screaming
> Sharp pain in left forearm
> Sees a fucking bayonet through it
> bayonet tears up and down his arm
Apparently my old man then proceeded to batter the poor fuckers head in before stabbing the fucker to death.

two years later:
> In a brick in NI
> known as stormtroopers, as they all returned pale, from lack of sunlight & being on ships and that whole empire strikes back & using dagenham specials (stirlings)
> On patrol with brick (section)
> Run and gun
> radio operator runs after the fucker
> Down and alleyway and into an open street.
> 40m range radio operator opens up with 32rounds on full fun
> all of them miss

another time
> doing a snatch and grab
> fuck doing this the normal way
> get out the old carl gustav & get a humber pig
> Fire Carl gustav at front door & get pig to ram through building
> run up stairs
> Fucker has a pistol drawn
> Small exchange ensues
> but the prick runs out of ammo and they rush him,
> Drag him down stairs by his feet
> throw him into pig
> Rolling down the road
> Fucker comes out with a gunshot wound & an Ak and starts peppering the pig until he runs dry
> Search his house
> Fucker got shot through 5 houses worth of drywall

old chaps been serving 42 years, now a colonel.

My brother is the only twat in the family as he's a marine.

>>34330569
>brother is a marine
I-I'm so sorry for your loss, anon.

>>34329608

My grandfather flew Spitfires in the Rhodesian Squadron in North Africa. According to him and my uncle this was what the pilots did for entertainment:

>go out on patrol
>find bedouins riding camels out innadesert
>do low pass so arab falls off camel
>second pilot chases camel away

He won the DFC for this

>>34330347
impressive

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This comes from a guy I work with who was in the Soviet naval infantry

>1990
>Dicking around at fleet monitoring comms
>Listing to normal traffic flow when traffic comes in from regional informing tracers that a Soviet space program craft will be passing overhead shortly
>Several minutes of normal traffic follows
>Radio keys up from frontal AA command Search and track
>They indicated to theater that they're tracking and recording space objects trajectory
>Theater acknowledges
>an AA unit keys up
>We are tracking target, requesting permission to fire
>On the space thing
>Laughter
>Unit callsign informally changed to "Baikonur", supposedly still goes by that to this day

>>34329608

Grand Father Hiro and Grand Uncle Ito both Japanese soldiers who invaded Hong Kong during WWII. IHiro Ended up shooting a bunch of troublesome Canadian prisoners and spent days making Indian prisoners bury bodies. They then shoot the Indians.. Ito emigrates to Canada after the War. Irony.

>>34330422
letting china go communist was one of americas biggest postwar mistakes

>>34330510
so did anyone there become in the resistance or they just got too scared after that?

my uncle told me about once in vietnam he kept this M60 fed all night, and the only light in the bunker was from the barrel.
in the morning they looked and the pig had managed to cut a 30* triangle swath across its field of fire from sheer barrel fuckup alone, and when they checked it, it was more or less smoothbore.
he was really vague about details so I'm piecing this together.
he hasn't told me anything else about nam.

>>34330544
>>34330549

Very well.

>1956
>Hungarian Revolution
>Gramps is a forestry engineer/hunter in Somogy county, not much happens there
>Locals establish an anti-communist 'Revolutionary Committee', elect Gramps and another guy as the heads of the committee
>Shortly after, Gramps has a motorcycle accident. Once again, pain and a motorbike.
>Gramps almost dies, barely an intact bone in him
>The revolution is crushed, post-revolution purges begin
>The other leader of the committee is executed for treason.
>They can't do anything with Gramps as he is completely covered in plaster, he is obviously not fit to stand trial and besides, he's going to die anyway
>Gramps does not die, makes a recovery after being in plaster for many months
>Resumes working at the aforementioned forestry.
>Some years later in the early sixties the forestry is dismantled, all the workers are transferred to other forestries and other state-owned apartments and such
>Except for Gramps.
>The glorious Party did not forget about him
>Gramps takes the first train towards Budapest and goes to the ministry, the train might have been fueled by his rage on the way.
>At the ministry, they attempt to lose him, 'sorry, nobody is available, please try again in about, uh, three weeks...'
>'No, I'm not FUCKING GOING AWAY FROM THIS PLACE UNTIL I SPEAK TO SOMEBODY.'
>Finally, Comrade Important Party Member grants Gramps an audience.
>Comrade Cunt bluntly explains to Gramps that his treachery is not forgotten, he should be happy to have gotten away with it, they know about that revolutionary committee and all that...
>Gramps explains that it is true, but there is a difference: he was ELECTED to be the head of that committee. By the PEOPLE. Instead of just being put there from above like Comrade Cunt.
>Comrade Cunt: 'Well, fair point...'
>A short time after, Gramps receives a notification about his new job posting and a new service apartment.

>>34330684
Your gramps sure had a big pair of balls anon

>>34330260
shouldn't have been a commie.

>>34330684

More Gramps.

>Mandatory Russian classes in schools
>Dad is a good student, but sucks at Russian
>Gramps constantly pushes my Dad to study harder and improve his grades as he detests bad grades like he detests stupidity

I should mention that Gramps was a forestry ENGINEER and his grumpy and mean exterior hid a sophisticated and literate interior with a love for good books. His little library is still around, he had a taste for good war literature.

>Gramps pushes Dad so hard that Grandma almost cries, begging him to go easier on Dad
>But at the same time Gramps hates the fact that a Hungarian lad has to learn fucking Russian.
>The Russian teacher of the school was also the local head of the Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség, the communist youth organization with whom it was wise to get along well with, let's call said teacher Comrade Communist Cocksucking Ponce.
>CCCP already dislikes my Dad.
>Gramps comes to Dad's high school to visit CCCP and give him a piece of his mind for being hard ony my Dad (only he was allowed to do that).
>Fierce argument happens
>WHY ON EARTH DOES A HUNGARIAN HAVE TO LEARN RUSSIAN IN HUNGARY, or at least something along these lines
>CCCP begins being even harsher on my Dad, writes on his report paper that the Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség does NOT recommend Dad's admittance to university.
>Unfortunately for CCCP, Dad was otherwise a good student, he aced his entrance exam and they told him that they will be happy to see him next semester, the mathematics department awaits him, welcome aboard.
>Dad's love for mathematics persists to this day.

Also, Gramps almost became the proud owner of some type of a late 50's-early 60's American car, although I don't know the exact type. Some of his friends emigrated in 1956 and pooled some money together. Alas, we couldn't afford the customs for the car. Still, I like to imagine Gramps driving his Cadillac or whatever on the dusty roads of 1960's Southwestern Hungary.

>>34330592
>scare camel jockeys
>receive delicious flat chest as reward
Did she often tell him it's not as if she likes him when they cuddled?

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>>34329608
3 Grandpa's in WW2

Grandpa on mother's side
>West point Lt., Engineer corps
>in second wave of D-Day clearing obstacles for tanks (i.e. blowing them up) 1944
>sets his equipment down, gets to work of one of those big metal jax looking things
>Sherman rolls right over his equipment pack, pushing it into the beach
>Grandpa pissed, only able to clear one obstacle before pushing onto the beach and waiting for further instruction
>later searched a bunker and found a Nazi officer's Swastika Armband and Cavalry sword, still have the sword
Grandpa on Dad's side
>Recon plane radio operator, a little after WW2, when jets really became a thing
>Never swaw any action of any kind except when a Russian MiG scuttled VERY close to where they were flying
>Grandpa felt the propeller plane shudder around him
StepGrandpa on Dad's side
>Navy Submarine crewman stationed in the Philippines
>Spent entire war chatting up Filipino girls, body surfing, tanning, sliding up and down the submarine isles when it rocked during storms
>this was after MacArthur got kicked out and came back
>Saw no action besides patrols

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>Kiwi grandfather served as an air mechanic in tropical Fiji in WW2
>Far enough behind the lines that he was never in any real danger
>Reckons he saw a Japanese aircraft one time, far off in the distance
>Spent any spare time fishing and gave whatever he caught to the cooks to feed the men
>Convinced the base commander to send up a Catalina flying boat to spot schools of fish for him while he rowed a dinghy around fishing
>Was offered his own aeroplane for free after the war, but couldn't fly it home and it had to be scrapped

His family were pretty poor and he was a postie. His posting was probably the time of his life.

>>34330638
Yeah, my grandfather did help them in some way or another. So did my grandmother.

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>>34330758

>Was offered his own aeroplane for free after the war, but couldn't fly it home and it had to be scrapped

This one hurts.

>tfw don't know enough about family history/military service to have any cool stories

>Brother in law gets shit drink one night.
>ask him about Veitnam.
>the guy goes on a detailed rant about being overrun.
>crazy shit, including a NVA with his leg being blown off
>while being carried by another NVA on his back
>both of them were shooting their AKs as they were running towards him in his hole.
>he wasted them with the M60 of the privious men stationed in the hole.
>he told me with a straight face after seeing that he knew the US already lost the war.

>Great Grandfather is super young and in the Civil war at 15 cuz lying about his age.
>Begins riding with scum of the earth confederates.
>2 years later is 17 and participates in a massacare of black wounded soldiers.
>Whole unit is wanted and will be hung if caught.
>Gets captured in wake of major battle.
>Shit is all messed up cuz confusion of battle.
>Guard is from another unit mostly shot to shit.
>Kills guard and assumes his place and reports having to kill the prisoner.
>Headstone and bury guard as himself.
>Sweet talk some supplies and then disappear to indian territory
>Live out rest of your days as a pacifist and have two graves.

>>34330325
Showed my grandfather my Mosin and he similarly opened up. Said he never had a problem with "the Russkies" during the cold war because they had lost millions in WWII while we just sent equipment. Added that he was "a hundred percent certain" my rifle had been used against the Nazis because the Russians had thrown in everything they had and even shared rifles between groups of men because they didn't have enough to go around.

>Grandfather serves in peacetime army in 1953
>Infantry, badass
>BAR gunner, badass
>Deployment to Bamberg Germany
>Literally every military story he has sounds like some shit out of stripes.

My grandfather, sham-master of the US Army.

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>Be Grampa
>His Brother joins the rapidly growing Army Airforce.
>BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
>Brother Station in China in part of the Flying Tigers volunteer unit.
>Actually sends a postcard from China back home.
>???
>WW2 ends and Grampa's brother instead of getting a beat to shit Type 99 or Type 38 he receives a Type 1 Italian made rifle that fires glorious nippon 6.5 with his family name stenciled on the finish.
>His Sister gets married to James D. Hughes, AKA "Lets got down to Tijuana Don, It's Election Night" -Nixon
>Grampa who is Army Radioman During Korea gets a Gig at the Korean Embassy and somehow gets grandma whiles his brother is flying F86's in Mig Alley.
>Grandma and her siblings Survives McLoser's ICHON and previous Seoul purges from DPRK to get where she was.
>Her Youngest Brother, not U.S. yet is ROK conscripted to the eastern shores of Vietnam to only say he ate bugs there.
>They be the happiest Gooks ever who would pat your back and to be honest loved grandpa.
>His brother gets alzheimer's and delusions himself next to an airbase Cia 1942 with P-48s.
>Grandpa sees Don last time when they be placing his sister in the ground in Arlington.
>Never trust healthcare providers that have multiple 4-5 star rating online reviews.
>Military Honors
>Don sends chocolates to my mother every Christmas as years go by.

That was my grandpa and his immediate family who pretty much all met each other on a Battlefield.

>>34330865
>Literally every military story he has sounds like some shit out of stripes.
well then tell them you fucking gook

>>34330618
really makes no difference to my family.

my grand father later on as a part of the chinese expeditionary force went to korea for the korean war.

saw literally no combat because he's a logistics officer.

came home after the korean war, some how a hero.

passed away few years ago, buried in national military hero cemetery.

From a defecting nationalist officer to hero of the republic...

>shrug

>>34329608
>Grandfather Brit
>Joins army sometime
>Put in an armoured division. Trained as a tank driver.
>Goes through Italy, Northern Europe, maybe even North Africa
>Saw Mussolini's body strung up in Milan
>War ends
>Go home
Dont know anything other than that

>>34330740
I'm really enjoying this, do you have any more stories?

>>34330403
Go on.

>>34329608
>be grandfather
>paratroop into Korea
>always afraid

He never talked about it, except that he was always afraid

>be dad
>join army straight out of HS inna80s
>wanna be a fucking paratrooper
>bust ass to make it
>get to the jumps
>realize that every time you hit the ground it's a surprise since you have the depth perception of a downs syndrome penguin
>fuck
>finish jumps and get wings
>can no longer into airborne, get set up as a 63B
>go to korea, kuwait, and iraq (desert storm)
>planned to career soldier, already had 13 years in
>only thing that stopped him was a fluke spinal problem
>go to school and shit
>now defense contractor
>been doing that for almost 20 years
I love my dad.

>great great great (something) uncle Henry
>signal corps during the Great One
>set up telegraph lines between trenches in France
>anyone who knew his stories is long dead so that's literally all I know about him

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>>34330969

Most of them are shorter and less interesting. Like how when Gramps had a toothache and just asked a friend of his to grab the toolbox and fucking pull his tooth out with a plier. Or the magical world of boxing (both Gramps and Dad loved boxing) in Old Hungary.

>Heavyweight match
>The two boxers know each other and don't really want to hurt each other, they don't put up a match as interesting as most of the audience wants it to be
>Drunk voice from the audience
>DO FUCKING SOMETHING ALREADY, DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE

Silly little stories like this.

While on topic of war stories though, Dad was the black sheep of the battalion during his time in the Hungarian People's Army. Mandatory military service, originally it was three years, later to be reduced to two and one year during my Dad's time.

>Be Dad
>Heavy machine gunner
>Dad is tall like a lot of others in the family, be machine gunner because big guys are assigned big guns
>Dad hates it, the heavy machine gun is a lot of work to properly maintain, fucking RPG guys get done in a matter of minutes
>One of Dad's idiot squadmates who should have been thrown into a meat grinder after birth for being such a turboretard of galactic proportions doesn't maintain his machine gun properly and by the will of the Gods of Military Fuckedupery this escapes the attention of his superiors
>Gunnery practice
>Moron pulls the trigger
>Trigger is stuck
>Moron stands up to report that his weapon malfunctions
>Machine gun starts firing
>Everyone hits the deck
>Machine gun keeps firing until the ammo belt is depleted, spraying the entire range
>The Gods of Military Fuckedupery willed that day that nobody got injured
>They open moron's machine gun
>Rust falls out

Dad says, these were the longest seconds of his life.

Also, Dad and one of his friends ate most the battalion's whole sour cream supply one time. Pic related, sour cream.

There is a fair number of stories about him and his superiors hating each other.

>>34330897

On story was a ten mile land lav and evasion lane they had to run through some forest in Germany. Three man squads had to get to an objective while avoiding guys roaming the woods trying to catch them.

>Grandfathers team: Him and another Italian guy from South Philly, and an Italian guy from the Bronx or Brooklyn.
>Zero childhood experience innawoods
>The rest of the teams overwhelmingly "rebels" from the rural south.
>Lane starts
>Him and his team hitch-hike into a nearby town on a logging truck they run into
>Spend several hours eating, drinking, and playing darts in a local bar
>When enough time has passed they hire a taxi to drive them right near the final.
>They reach the objective
>Only team to make it without being caught
>Everyone in their company knows they are full of shit but cannot prove it.

>>34331055
>DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE
kek'd

Please someone screen cap the hungarybro's gramps histories

>>34330569
>Apparently my old man then proceeded to batter the poor fuckers head in before stabbing the fucker to death.
Based

>>34331055

My bad, it is not sour cream I posted, it is milk. I fucked up. Anyway.

>Be Dad.
>Combined arms exercise, infantry, artillery and tanks.
>Extremely unpopular manlet NCO (according to Dad, manlets with authority were the worst) delivers his usual verbal shitting on Dad and his platoonmates.
>NCO's reputation is well known among other units as well.
>Tankers nearby, doing maintenance on their tank.
>See manlet, decide to fuck with him.
>Tank's gun slowly turns towards manlet because the turret servos need to be properly checked
>Mighty manlet turns around and sees muzzle of tank gun facing him from very close range
>Barrage of verbal diarrhea ceases immediately


Another one.
>Bunch of Soviets stationed in nearby base because Warsaw Pact
>They are rarely let out from their base, except the officers
>A group of them sneaks into a nearby townsman's garden and harvest the fruit from his tree at night
>Guy (understandably) gets very pissed, files a complaint and demands compensation.
>Wakes up one morning shortly after that, sees the stolen fruit returned
>They are tied back to the tree branches

Fucking Russians.

>>34331130
Short but gold

>>34331130
>fruit tied to the branches
"You see, Ivan, when farmer want fruit back, is of important to leave tree better than how you found it. With adding the string of glorious soviet makings, fruit never fall off again. Now farmer know mother russia loves all her childrens."

> in the woods with a KP
> Two ruskies with mosins
> He was faster
And thats is that as they say.

>>34329608
>Gramps is on an island near the Solomons around 1941-42
>Japs are on a neighbouring island
>As a result, total light, fire and smoke security
>2 weeks, hardtack and bully beef, cold

>Grandpa and mate head up to the top of a hill shirking work
>Make a little fire, boil some tea
>Life is good
>Jap Artillery is overjoyed, they have something to aim at

>First shell lands about 50 yards away, blows the fuck out of the jungle
>Nope!
>Run screaming down the side of the hill, falling arse over tit
>Next shell lands directly on top of the fire, blowing it and all their mess kit to hell

>Get back to camp, deny everything!

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>>34331147

Dad hated his time in the army.

>Catches nasty pneumonia.
>Has to report every month to the infirmary for a medical check-up
>Such a check-up also means laying there for a few days
>This also means that he doesn't have to do anything
>Sgt. Turbomanlet (I don't recall if he was the same one or a different one or whether he was a sargeant, let's call him that) thinks Dad is slacking
>Gives Dad hard time over this, subtly putting pressure on him
>Dad is basically forced not to show up for one of his monthly check-ups.

Sgt. Turbomanlet fucked up big time with this. You see friends, there was one group in the People's Army of Hungary that nobody messed with. One group that everyone of every rank feared and respected. Whose authority and will were not defied lightly and without consequences and Dad got along well with this group.

The army doctors.

And Sgt. Turbomanlet successfully managed to draw their ire.

>Dad reports for his monthly check-up.
>'Private Anon's Father, you weren't here last month.'
>'Sgt. Turbomanlet said I'm a slacker and all that, I didn't want to anger him', Dad explains the whole story.
>'I see, I think we understand the situation.'

>Later that day the entire battalion is gathered and red-faced Sgt. Turbomanlet delivers a massive, groveling apology to Dad in front of everyone to see.

Later Dad was ordered to Budapest for a check-up at the central army hospital.
>Pvt Anon's Father, that's quite a story... How much time do you have left in service?
>One month, doctor.
>I see. I'll tell you what. We'll demobilize and discharge you.
>Dad was sent back to the base with a notification that he is to be released from service in three days.
>Of course, Sgt. Turbomanlet and his other superiors waited until the three days were over to keep him around as long as possible.

>>34331297
Cool stories hungarybro, they are really amusing

>great uncle on my dads side served in WW2
>company clerk
>North Africa, Normandy, Germany
>was at St.Lo
That's all I know about his service, I might ask in a few weeks when i go see him

>Grand father
>too young for WW2
>drafted for Korea
>shit.png
>signals battalion
>based in west Germany
>spends his time writing letters to my grand mother and fucking around
RIP

>uncle
>Vietnam
>USMC crew chief
>multiple tours, that's all I know
Never got to meet him

>Dad
>Coldwar
>joins airforce because fuck college
>spends 8 years as a cook before cross training to ELINT
>watched the wall fall
>still dies ELINT shit

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>>34329608
>Be Grandfather
>Joins Wehrmacht 1939
>Battle of France
>Operation Barbarossa
>Allies land in Normandy
>Gets Captured 1945
>POW Camp
>War ends
>Works as a Teacher
He only talked once about War my dad told me.
>Russia
>Sitting in a MG nest
>Russians are attacking
>Russians hide in a water ditch
>Attack ends
>Water ditch full of dead russian soldiers

>Be grandfather on mother's side
>Get drafted for Korea
>Army assigns him to be a telegraph/radioman
>Job means you climb a tree with a long wire coming out of your pack
>Pretty much a designated KIA
>2 weeks before shipping out, contract severe chicken pox
>Sent to mail room instead of infantry
>Finishes war as a postal clerk
>Goes home, has 4 kids
So, if not for chicken pox, I wouldn't be here.

>Be uncle, father's side
>Be a total asshole already
>Drafted, sent to Army for Vietnam
>Trained on M-16 in boot, told there'd be brand new M-16s waiting in country for them
>Gooks steal all the M-16s off the boat
>Unit issued random combination of M-14s, grease guns, Thompsons, shotgun, etc; also, 1911s that are non-functional for tunnels
>Supply is sporadic; odd ammo not replaced
>Pick up AKs when possible
>Not a "war," therefore, no mail controls in place
>Uncle back home mails him 12 gauge ammo and a .357 revolver, regularly mails more 00 Buck
>.357 then used by him and others to clear tunnels
>Get home
>Still a total asshole, only now have PTSD, insist on always OCing .357 which killed gooks in 'Nam, and don't take meds as regularly as prescribed
We don't talk to him much... Not since he blew off several family weddings and his own mother's funeral.

>>34331407
I'll give out one of my grand fathers stories

>inna 50s US army
>barter system is a huge part of inter unit dealings
>they end up with a literal truck load of blankets
>General is going to make an inspection
>CO writes grand father and one of his buddies a pass that gives them free reign of western Germany
>spends a week crusing west Germany, drinking and pissing off MPs while sleeping in the back of a M37 dodge
>camped out at an old castle at some point apparently

>>34331407
Post his stories when you talk to him please

>>34331466
I will do my best, he's last of greats and grands who served

>>34331413
What did he get the Iron Cross for?

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>>34329608
Not really war but here goes

>be my Grandfather
>1960s Murrican Army 82nd Airborne
>get stationed in Dominican Republic
>put on camp guard duty innajungle late at night
>jungle noises everywhere, 2spooky
>about 2 in the morning, hears something big crashing around in bushes
jimmiesrustled.jpg
> "US ARMY, HALT!"
>crashing continues, comes closer
>"US ARMY, HALT OR WE WILL FIRE ON YOU"
>crashing continues still, sounds like a skinwalker looking for some tasty GIs
>get green light to fire
>unleash the sweet dakka of ma deuce machine gun
>a hideous, unearthly scream marks the end of the crashing noise

>relieved from guard duty a bit later, go to sleep
>wake up the next morning to yelling in Spanish and a furious NCO
>DAMMIT ANON'S GRANDDAD GO LOOK WHAT YOU DID
>Walk out of camp towards location of skinwalker noises
>donkey remains everywhere
>spend the whole day digging a massive pit to bury carcass in and avoid attracting more animals
>hfw he also had to pay Juan out the ass for killing his old donkey

>>34331407
Time for one of my dads stories which sounds like something out of stripes
>mid 90s
>working on a portable ELINT truck for systems testing
>personalize the inside a little bit
>pictures, magazine holders etc
>have airman Honey Bun
>honey bun is a blow up doll they got a uniform for
>Col is making a surprise inspection
>Honey Bun is strapped in the front seat
>Female Lt is with Col
>Lt is trying to remain standing
>Col is just disappointed in his senior enlisted
>no one gets in trouble, laughs all around

If it happened today they'd all be having sexual harassment training

>my grandpa inna 'nam.
>sleeping in his barracks at his hq.
>wakes up to sound of mortar shells and rockets.
> yells "INCOMING!"
>no one else is in the barracks
>fucker managed to sleep halfway through the rocket attack.
>gets to the bunker right before the door closes.

He tells some pretty good stories. Apc crew. Got a silver star for leading his platoon out of an ambush.

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Some more Gramps.

The Hungarian People's Army was an interesting thing. Lots of very smart and very stupid people locked together, like some kind of a vast experiment.

Gramps worked in the forestry where War Secretary Lajos Czinege used to hunt. Hunting was a popular pastime among high ranking commies. Czinege was quite possibly the biggest, stupidest and at the same time, most vengeful and ruthless asshole ever to be in command of Hungary's military. He wasn't even fit for peeling potatoes, but he had connections and friends in Moscow so they couldn't get rid of him. Fucker used to hide in a farm during WW2 to avoid frontline service. He got in contact with the communists though, volunteered for service in 1946 and so began his stellar career in the military by brown-nosing his way upwards through the political branch of the army. He used to boast that it was him who invited the Soviets in during the 1956 revolution.

Other, better men did the actual work, which is why the People's Army of Hungary could function as a decent, even good army.

Anyway, Gramps. He was only a witness of the following:

>working at the forestry
>Czinege and his entourage shows up
>lots of local party dignitaries and their immediate family are also present
>Czinege is drunk as fuck and cares even less of what people think of him than he normally does
>Gorgeous wife of a local dignitary, Czinege spots her and roars like the Magyar warlords of old
>'THAT... ...WOMAN OVER THERE. SEE HER? I'M. GOING TO. FUCK. HER.'
>'Comrade War Secretary, you can't fuck her, she's the wife of [important party dignitary]
>'IDONNCARE, IMMA FUCK HER ANYWAY. DO YOU UNDERSTAND.'
>'This is impossible Comr...'
>'SHUDDUP, I'M... I'M GOING TO FUCK H...HER.'

His aides solved the problem by taking Czinege for a drive. They knew that he'll fall asleep and forget the whole deal.

If there would have been an armed conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, I'm sure that removing this guy would have been swift.

>>34331231
>Some time later after the top of the hill got blown off
>Have snuck onto the Jap's island and hunting them
>Patrol comes across a Jap patrol of 6 guys taking a break

>Section leader tells them to pick a target each and fire on his order
>2 guys hunched over their fire
>2 guys having a quiet nap
>1 guy on watch
>1 guy trying to snap off a cheeky shit in the bushes

>FIRE!
>*smoke*
>Japs go screaming into the jungle, sans fairly much everything but the guy on watch with his rifle
>Guy taking a shit
>Well he 'disintegrated' into chunks after being hit by four .303 rifles and a Bren gun

>>34331601
That poor bastard had sone bad luck

>>34329608
>army corps of engineers
>in Philippines
>have to blow up wall to get to Japs
>wall is part of villa owned by Patton
>denied to blow it up
>ask again
>denied
>ask again
>denied
>ask again
>no response
>blow up wall and the villa is flooded with Americans who remove sushi
>get yelled at by Patton

My grandpa was a wild one. The British were also apparently charging use for the Suez canal so a lot of American ships just went around the entire world through Panama just to spite them.
"We loaded up on duty free booze in Panama" was one of the last things I remember him saying before he passed.

>>34331407
I have another Dad story

>be early 80s
>based at Fairchild when he was doing cook shit
>he feeds the alert crews
>go out on Valentine's Day
>he and his buddy are going bomber to bomber and passing up breakfast
>one aircraft is coming off and alert and being disarmed so security is high as shit
>a flower company's van zips past the "line"
>dad and friend hit the deck
>security forces guys stop van and damn near waste the 2 people inside with M16s and 12 gauge shells
>turns out some of the officers wives wanted to send flowers and shit to their husbands who were sitting alert and couldn't spend Valentine's Day with them

Women, not even once

This is coming from my old history teacher. Not family, but still a great story

>be my history teachers grandpappy
>Second generation immigrants
>Drafted to fight against the Germans in WW2
>Parents came from the country he was fighting in (Can't remember which one they were from)
>Told by his mother to stay at his Aunt's place when he was on leave or had time
>Fighting in the war
>Finally got leave
>Found his Aunt's house
>Greeted with hostility, but was welcomed in once he told them who his parents were
>at the table was an SS soldier
>After nearly killing one another they were finally talked down
>turned out they were 2nd cousins
>slept within arms length of each other in the spare room
>SS had his Walther in his hand as he slept
>Teacher's Grandpappy had his Garand across his lap as he slept while propped up against the wall facing his cousin
>Went their separate ways the next morning

Pretty sure they met again once the war ended.

Sorry if I didn't make much sense, I was in middle school when i was told this story, so details are foggy at best.

>>34331510
Breaking thru enemy lines saving a overrunned squad. Excellent leadership.

>>34331704
For the record he has no idea how the van got onto the flight line

>>34331654

Was Patton in the Philippines?

>>34331811
No that was MacArthur

Patton was in the European Campaign

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>>34331710

This reminds me of a guy Dad (Hungarian Gramps anon here) told me about.

Dad went on to become a teacher, he taught mathematics and physics various schools, one of these was a particularly shitty school with some rather rough students. There was a very old, retired history teacher there who still used to teach even though he was in his fucking early 90's, he was Hungary's oldest teacher at the time. His age didn't really stop him, some old folk remain quite active. Now, this guy managed to keep an iron discipline among the students. Nobody talked back to him or if they did, they regretted it. Students weren't allowed to enter the classroom until he was in, they were to wait outside. Fragile old man, but his natural dominance reduced the undisciplined kids to obedient pups.

The old timer came back alive from Voronezh in 1943.

My great uncle Ted was stationed on the USS Bunker Hill. He was in the kitchen with his friends one day when a torpedo hit the other end of the ship and the alarms went off. He went to get his weapons and head to the deck. As he was doing this, a kamikazi hit close by. He decided he had no time, and his only option was to man one of the anti aircraft guns outside. 40 cal I think? as he opened the hatch to the deck, he saw one of his shipmates severed head literally right in front of him. He knew the guy well from what I understand. He got on the gun and shot at incoming kamikazis. I do not recall how many planes he shot down. He said it was such an adrenaline rush - he was just standing there screaming and shooting while the entire ship was under attack and in a panic. A kamikazi hit near him and he was forced to jump ship, along with some other guys. They had life jackets, and were rescued later.

My uncle Frank was in Vietnam and was awarded three Purple Hearts and one Silver star, but I'm not sure how he got them

>be great grandpa
>innawehrmacht
>innahungary
>no I'm not the other anon, anyway
>roughly 42/43, get captured by brits and sent to POW camp
>POW camp is just some asshole's fucking farm
>stay there for unknown amount of time
>farmers nor brits give a shit, escape
>somehow find out where the women of the family had been taken
>his mother, my aunt, his wife, and a few other women of the family had been taken to an honest to god serbian concentration camp
>great grandpa jacob will not have that shit
>roll on down there
>over the course of several weeks, use a hay cart that regularly goes by to break out all the women of the clan plus his brothers nephew (IIRC, that one always confused me)
>family in tow, war over by this point, head to american zone in austria
>stay there for a long-ass time
>have son (my grandfather) there
>figure out housing like 7 people in a 15x15 room sucks pretty hard
>come to america in '57
>start successful life in chicago
i wish I got to talk to him more. great man.

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>>34329608
>great great grandfather was with the Bosnian-Herzegovinian infantry in WW1
>great grandfather was in the 13th Waffen SS Handschar division
>escaped from the country after the end of WW2
>his brother was a partisan
>got blown up
>grandfather was in the YNA and in Palestine during the 60's
>uncle was in the YNA and the Yugoslav Wars
>dad served during the war when he was 17
I don't have any humorous stories to tell beacuse most of my dad's experiences are fucked up and shitty
I just came here to brag about my ancestors

>>34330347
>> In the army in the Blitz as an AA gunner
That's fucking rad, I had no idea women served in the war as AA gunners.

>>34331442
Why was 1911 so bad for tunnels?

Story from my grandpa
>Get drafted to Red Army
>Gets sent to workcamps in middle of Siberia
>lives in africa tier mudhut with tin can for a stove for over a year.
>In winter of 1943 after basic training gets on train and goes to front.
>Train drops them of 20 km before the front in the middle forrest in the forrest
>To survive night they dug a hole big enough for squad and put spruce branches on the bottom and just slept there. he said It was quite comfy to sleep there but waking up in the middle of the winter with wet clothes was really horrible.
>next morning
>He was big guy (195) so nearby artillery men were asking his help to move guns
>"Sure guys"
>Didnt tell his officer and he got left behind
>The only road was so shitty even the horses were knee deep in mud so he spent his whole day helping the poor bastards
>stayed there until late at night and even then he didnt go to his squad so he stayed with arty guys and slept in nearby farm.
>Next day he was arrested for desertion and was put in jail waiting to get shot.
>Arty guys were estonians so Russian Nkvd does not trust their word and even threatens to shoot them
>Without explaining anything he gets pardoned and sent new unit.
>Turns out most of his squad was killed along the officer who demanded him to get shot.
Funny thing is that wasnt the only time germans indirectly saved his life

>>34332094
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>be an artilleryman, both land and anti-air
>ship is sent to yugoslavia for repairs
>takes land artillery courses in bosnia
>steals a fucking yugoslav TT and smuggles it back here

only to be discovered 30> years after he did that during some reunion

>>34332094
In this case it was just that those particular pistols were in poor repair, and repair parts weren't making it down to them. Uncle attributed it to too much dry firing and general fuckery.

My dad's uncle was a tanker in the afrika korp. Then he moved to Pennsylvania and opened up a shop. Apparently he never talks about his time under rommel

>>34329608
>be half jap
>grand uncle was a pilot in IJN
>managed to go the majority of the war without major incidents, mostly flying over china n shit
>until it comes to the end of the war and they start ordering kamikaze strikes and moving planes to the pacific
You can probably guess he's not around anymore
My grandmother actually had two other brothers in the IJA but she never said much about em

I'm pretty bummed my grandfather died before I was old enough to really understand anything and ask him story's about the wars because going through his stuff he Had a ton of enemy gear, pistols, Rifles, ss knives and Helmets. Sadly he never really talked to my father about it either so I can't even get second hand into really now I just keep all his stuff in move shape and won't sell it out of respect for him.

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Grandpa from mothers side missed WWII by a couple of years but his older brother, my great uncle, was in Europe as an Engineer. Every picnic as a kid I remember he would start drinking heavily and would eventually lead to the same story.

>great uncle Joe and his company are somewhere in France, never heard him say exactly where
>nightly patrols are sent out
>it's Joe's turn to go but he gets a case of the shits from something he ate
>his closest buddy says he'll take his place on the patrol so Joe isn't shitting all over the French countryside
>at some point the patrol makes contact with a German patrol and a quick firefight ensues
>great uncle Joe's buddy is killed instantly
>by this point of the story drunk great uncle Joe is usually crying saying it should have been him
>never got over it and came back with a drinking problem obviously


My grandfather from my dad's side was in Europe as well driving around in pic related. He passed away before i was born so i don't have many stories about him except these two:

>was stationed at the bridge in Remagen in his half track as part of the force tasked with holding it as it was the only route they had at the time into Germany

>after the war he was a guard at a POW camp somewhere in Germany, my father and uncles are not sure where
>while there the prisoners used to make things to trade with the guards for cigarettes and such
>one prisoner made my grandfather a wood cigar style box that he brought home with him
>my uncle gave it to me years back because he knew i was into WWII history, still have it to this day!

>be dad
>enrolled in JNA in 1978 but less priviledge cus bosnian
>shit gets fucked up
>drafted first to TOBiH Ilidza, then 104. motorized brigade
>didnt do shit there and drafted to 44. Brigade and stayed until Neretva 93
>croats agree to fight together so drafted to 206. Zvornik infantry brigade
>brigade gets the "Knightly" status
>almost dead there because of some artillery
>war ends
>havent been to bosnia since

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>>34332526
E gdje si sine.
505 bužimska ovde

>>34332714
^^
TOBiH Ilidza
104. mbr (potom 144. viteska mbr)
444 Jablanica
206 viteska zvornicka

i sada turska

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>>34332738
Kako je u istočnoj Bosni/Turskoj?
505.bužimska i 511 brdska
ALSO FUCK DAYTON

>>34332827
ovo je dobro ovde, zivim u istanbul, ali ne u Bajrampasa

i odakle si, buzim? kladusa?
ja sam iz gorazde

Got a few
>Grandpa on dad's side
>infantry officer in Korea
>was at outpost Harry in 53
>led five counter attacks in one day
>hand to hand combat
>killed three Chinese with his bayonet
>had to be told about it after action
>has no memory of that
>awarded silver star
>wounded twice in theater
>still had the bullets they pulled out of him

>his older brother
>enlists in marines after pearl Harbor
>survives entire pacific War landing on damn near every major island
>dies in a jeep accident in Honolulu on the way home a week after Japan surrenders

>great grandfathers to the nth
>both wounded at shiloh
>meet in hospital
>Tolen line continues

>mom's dad
>port Jackson harbor master
>wrote doctrine for arming convoys in Atlantic
>becomes convoy commander
>never lost a ship under his command
>promoted to rear admiral
>hates the desk
>goes back to being captain in 44
>stays in merchant marine after war
>entire career a ships captain

>>34331442
Don't blame him anon. He spent a portion of his life getting close to people only to see them die. Don't be mad that he doesn't like getting close to people / seeing others get to be happy and be close to each other (maybe he is jealous). Additionally, don't fault him for not wanting to see someone else he loved dead and get put in the ground. He's seen enough of that without proper funerals.

Go talk to the miserable bastard.

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>>34332850
Blizu bužima,ne bi htjeo reći tačno gdje
Sve sjebano stari,gledam kako bi otišao
Mislio sam u rusku vojsku

>>34332922
zelim da se vratim u bosnu, ne znam zasto
gdje zivis?

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>Gramps proud Ukranian man
>1940
>Conscripted by Russians ohshit.jpg
>told the soviets to go fuck themselves
>gets thrown in political-prison in Ukraine.
>Prison gets over-run by germans
>forced into stretcher bearer unit full of freed political prisoners in German army
>rides it out until '43
>sees chance to bail
>told nazis to go fuck themselves, slips away.
>makes his way through scandinavia through the winter/spring of 43/44
>gets picked up by resistance fighters
>somehow ends up in a british displaced persons camp until the end of the war.
>immigrates to Canada in 1946.

tldr: how to go through literal hell without killing anyone during WW2

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>>34332950
Nemoj se vraćati sine samo bježi
Nema ništa.
U Krupi eto

>>34332983
imalo smo kucu u sarajvu
ne znam da li je jos uvek tamo
bilo je u alipasinom

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>>34333013
Pa znaš kako je Sarajevo prošlo...
Vjerovatno je sad samo pepelo ostalo
Mogao si u tursku vojsku
Ubiješ malo ISIS-ovaca

>>34333033
tursku vojsku vise nije dobro (15 juli)

imam kljuc od 92 godine
mogu li jos uvijek uci u moju kucu u sarajvu

>>34333072
Probaj ući u kuću,ne živim ja u Sarajevu
Ako hoćeš probaj u Legiju

My grandpa (RIP) never really talked about his war experiences, I think, but I guess I'll bump the thread.
We have a stack of postcards from the front, when I get the time to learn Sütterlin I'll post anything interesting (if anybody is interested)

>be 17
>it's 1939, so off to the Wehrmacht with you!
>Field trip in Poland, as a blacksmith's apprentice before the war, 2nd line duties (as far as I know)
>Ostfront the entire war
>Later get pressed into frontline duty
>Shot in leg (bullet is one of our "family heirlooms")
>captured and sent to Ukrainian Gulag (I think in 45)
>released pretty soon
>limp on foot most of the way back home
>home is now part of Poland
>ohfuck.webm
>go to the west and marry widowed grandma

Other grandpa had a massive case of PTSD from his experiences and no one in the family talks about him (left before Dad was born)

>>34329608
>be my ancestor
>be youngest of the family
>be farming the farm
>suddenly the local lord conscripts me
>stuffed into a boat and sent cross the ocean
>tfw I am not even getting paid
>tfw he is getting paid for my work
>fast forward a year
>be Christmas
>be stuck in this godforsaken hole in the wall
>suddenly some guys attack
>whothefuckattacksonchristmas.jpeg
>my unit surrenders
>some Prussian guy comes up to me
>says that if I help train the rebel army they will give me land when the war is over
>holy shit! land of my own!
>wherethefuckismygunihavetodrillthesefuckers.jpeg
>spend the rest of the war teaching farmers how to fight
>wars over
>tfw they follow actually through and give me my land

And that is how one of ancestors went from fighting some rebels to helping train the Continental Army. Or at least as family lore says. I may have some more recent shenanigans from my family too.

I've got a story you guys will love:

>be second Great War
>1944-1945
>on the front lines of the Wermacht
>no Nazis in AO
>little to no swastikas
>middle of firefight
>innatown under German control
>people running and gunning
>no real communication or teamwork between platoon/squad mates
>killing enemies by the dozen
>out of ammo
>see enemy looking other direction
>run to stab the fucker and take his weapon
>let out effimenate yell due to adrenalin
>solder turns around with time enough to shoot but freezes
>not sure why he froze. Maybe he was surprised to see a black woman on the front lines of the Wermacht fighting
>turns out the fight was over
>Wermacht won 75-68

Tfw my grand mother was a infantry woman for WWII.

>>34329608
my dad served as a combat medic from 2002-2013
>2012
>Wargames in arizona
>Dad is part of a convoy moving to an FOB
>Out of the blue a little ambulance shows up, hauling ass across the dunes
>Fucking attack helicopter chasing it
>Helicopter pauses
>turns towards the convoy
>everybody's hit buzzers go off
and they never saw the ambulance again.

I have a non-family story from Vietnam that I think you would like
>In Vietnam
>on patrol
>bump into a large group of NVA
>too big to handle with a small patrol
>call in for fire support hoping to scare them off
>radio in
>response from some bunch of letters and numbers
>give location of NVA
>sighting round in bound
>its good
>guy on radio says to keep our heads down
>couple seconds later a whole acre of land becomes airborne
>radio cracks on
>"this is BB64 whats the status of the enemy"
>Sargent to the radio man
>"what the fuck is BB64!?"

And that is how an acquaintance found out about the pure firepower that is the New Jersey and her main guns.

He also said when walking through what remained of the blast zone, they would occasionally come across a gooey and when they would lift their foot it would be red. They assumed that was the remains of some poor sod.

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>Poorland
>be my ~8yrs old grandpa
>break into german warehouse with friends
>tons of guns, gold and other cool stuff...
>... steal as much chocolate as you can and give out for everyone your his street
pic some kind related

>>34333535
*from your street
excuse my retardation

Ok, all this modern warfare shit is cool and all , but let me regale you with the tale of great-great grandpa Palhemus.

>be living in James Island, SC working as blacksmith
>1861 comes around, have no slaves so your ass is fighting for Dixie
>get shipped to mouth of Mississippi to stop the Yankees
>eat a fucking cannon ball, whats left of you is forgotten about for 150 years

>>34329608

>Grandad served in RAF
>Flew Spitfire
>Stationed in Egypt
>Was nicknamed "The Wog" because he spent most of his free time tanning
>Best friend got out of his plane before take-off, took his jacket off, and walked into the propeller of his plane

Turned out the dude was depressed, missed home etc, decided that he couldn't face going out on another mission.

My other grandad was in the navy, was an electrician on a destroyer, can't remember which one unfortunately. Ended up getting a decent settlement a few years before he died, turns out there was a lot of asbestos in those boats.

My dad was drafted to Finnish Defence Forces in early 80s.
He get bilateral pneumonia and tuberculosis after two months of service.
That's pretty much it.

>Great Uncle Gook: Commie and was placed in South Vietnamese prison camp for commie gooks
>Grandad: Not a commie and was placed in Commie prison camp for non-commie gooks
>Dad: Refugee and placed in refugee camp in Phillipines and then moved to America
>Me: Camping instructor

Grandpa had a sizeable estate in the 1940's in south eastern poland where I still live though not in the exact same place.

He got called to war in 1939 and was the dude with a telephone spool on his back. They lost a battle in central poland and surrendered and gramps was taken to a nazi stalag. The security wasn't very impressive and he just walked out one day and walked 500km back home. Nobody gave a single fuck somehow.

Then later on a wehrmacht AA battery camped on his ground and he had a few officers living in his home, he hated them but always said how when the germans came they dug orderly latrines, didn't fuck his shit up and the officers paid had him bill them for every single meal or anything they used at the house. He was honestly impressed with this because in 1944 the russians were prosecuting their westward campaign and they in turn took to living on his lands.

They were permanently drunk, shat fucking everywhere you can imagine, grandma was locked in the attic behind a metal-reinforced trap door and they sold him a Bofors 37mm anti-aircraft gun at gunpoint (its still there rusted beneath a bale of hale in the barn, gotta take pics sometimes) so they could buy cheap ass moonshine. The thieving got so bad one russian lieutenant had to publicly execute an asshole private in front of my grandpas house to keep some semblance of order. Nothing of value remained afterwards.

After the war the communists were hanging everyone who was caught with a gun he didn't give back so grandpa had to sink a bundle of nuggets, SVT's and TT pistols in a nearby river where presumably they rust to this day.

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>Be me
>Anons Great Uncle
>Be bookie in Scotland
>For some reason enlist
>Fight in Black Watch
>Sent to El Alemein
>Die 1st Day of Battle
>cont

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>>34333919

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>>34334016
>Be Anons other great uncle
>Be coal miner
>Be filthy commie
>Join international brigade and fight for the Spanish communists (Still have some letters)
>lose
>Decide to join merchant navy as a stoker
>Get torpedoed 3 fucking times and live
>According to Grandpa who was only 12 at the time he was a lunatic
>Spent remainder of life talking to trees and drinking
>tfw me and my grandfather loathe communism

My grandad spent almost the entire war in British naval bases in the carribbean repairing ships, his brother was on the Burma railway however and endured a very shit time, the jap's hated him, when he bowed he was still taller than the vicious wee shits so they beat him.

>>34332313
Good man, anon. Never, ever fucking give up family history to outsiders.

>>34333987

Also he told me how they were at some relatives house and were having a good old slav party when Opels full of SD or some shit like that descended and demanded a guy who was with the AK resistance turn himself in or else they'd start shooting random people.

The dude decided to take his chances and took off running from within the crowd and the officer in charge just took a Kar 98 from a soldier and took half the guy's skull from like a hundred meters away. Then they left. Everybody kinda felt cold and not wanting to fuck with these people although the resistance later buried my grandpa up to his neck in the ground and left him in the forest because he hid his food from them or else the family would starve. He was yelling his face off for like a full day before some old hag picking mushrooms randomly found him the next day.

All in all from his stories the nazis were mostly civil although they shot all the jews in a nearby canyon in 1940 which everyone saw and knew about.

They also dug a fuckload of tunnels and factories in the hills all around the place, some of those are still undiscovered but the nazis flooded it all in 1945 before they fucked off, there's one railway tunnel where Hitler and Mussolini met in 1943, people used to grow champignons in it before they turned it into a museum in the nineties.

All over the place a metric fuckload of unexploded ordnance was left and it wasn't uncommon to see people without an arm and leg because locals kept picking them up and it was relatively common to use old artillery shells and grenades for fishing which didn't end well some times. As a kid I found a bunch of 23mm Shturmovik cannon shell around.

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>>34333987

>they sold him a Bofors 37mm anti-aircraft gun at gunpoint...so they could buy cheap ass moonshine

>>34329608
German Great Grandfather on mothers fathers side:
> have 6 children with the most germanic names you can imagine
> get enlisted in the wehrmacht
> eastern front
> last letter shortly before stalingrad
> declared dead in absence in 1944

German Great Grandfather on mothers mothers side:
> Enlist as a shipboy as 16 year old in 1912
> travel under dutch flag to polynesia (or another small island in the pacifics)
> become sort of POW, due to war with germany, is allowed to be guard in local prison
> after war went home with a few enthousands of Gulden
> stupid relatives borrow some, and pays it back in Reichsmark
> then, finance crisis

> WW2 comes
> too old to fight
> still young enough to clean up the colony gardens after a bombing raid by tommies or amis
> btw, a lazaret was attacked too

Great grandfather on fathers side (dont know if of
the mother or father):
> be lucky
> too young for WW1
> too old for ww2
> guard a Depot in Könitz as far as i know
> before the americans arrive, go home, and burn his uniform

As far as i know my familiy he probably sat there drinking beer when the americans arrived.

Other great grandfather
> enlisted in Imperial German Army
> survived Verdun
> too old for WW2

Some granduncle according to my father
> waffen SS panzerbattalion on eastern front
> survived the entire thing from start to finish

And today
> be me
> german living in denmark
> when visiting the fatherland mostly turks on the street, and my siblings are sjw tier
> brother is friend with antifags
> sister is feminist and hippie
> i am overweight (but not murica tier), dark haired, not very social, and study electrical engineering

> at least i have had the fun to shoot a G3 a while back, and even had a gf

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>>34333987
>>they sold him a Bofors 37mm anti-aircraft gun at gunpoint

>>34334051
holocaust deniers BTFO

>>34333372
WE WUZ AIRBORN N SHIET

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I don't have that many funny stories (or stories at all) from my serving relatives, since most didn't live to tell the tale.

Mother's side

great uncle #1 (big picture in the middle, early picture of him)
>inna Wehrmacht
>became an officer in an Anti-tank unit
>France, North Africa & Eastern Front
>wounded several times, Iron Cross 2nd class, German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal
>died in '42 near Lake Ladoga, when his dugout got caved in by an arty shell

great uncle #2 (lower middle picture)
>be tank crew
>killed in the East by shrapnel as he stood in the hatch of his tank

Grandpa
>conscripted as airforce helper at age 16 in the late war (44-45 I think)
>deployed in the west, but saw no combat
>captured by the Allies, got tuberculosis and nearly died
>released early and walked hundreds of KM home on foot
>comes home to find out he's now a complete orphan
>family committed sudoku out fear, because Ivan
>rebuilds the looted family business (photography store)
>was a happy go lucky grandpa up until he passed away a couple of years ago
The Photography store is still in family hands. 4th generation now.


Fathers side

Every male that served in WW2 found their end on eastern soil.

Dad:
>conscript inna NVA
>standing guard at night during field exercise
>officer tells him to wake up the men, they're moving out
>dad puts AK into fun mode & magdumps the 30 blanks
>reports to officer: Camp awoken as ordered, Sir!
>gets chewed out, but nothing else happens

>still conscript
>radio truck driver
>basically drive to point x & let the comm guys do their thing
>comm guys made him some headphones so he could also listen to western radio (he loves Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc.)
>sometimes he and the comm guys would troll west german radio stations and broadcast their own shit

>>34330398
Any Idea what he did at NASA?

>>34330740
I dont know why, but i really like these eastern block stories, especially from those who werent that happy with the system.

>>34334475
I love that story about the resourceful polish conscript who had to take a pig to a russian unit in his ural truck.

>>34329608
>grandpa volunteers for ustase
>his brother volunteers for domobrani
>other grandpa volunteers partizans
>grandpa in ustase is a war criminal
>partizani give him the opportunity to live there if he denounces fascism
>does so publicly
>other grandpa kills so many people he has to change his name and flees to South America
About the most interesting stories I have.

>>34334393
I think he worked on rockets at their site in Mississippi. He got blown of the launch pad once when a rocket fucked up. I've got an award of his that he got from them laying around somewhere.

>>34332101
Other times? We germans are kind people...

The only thing y dad did was walk from West Germany into East Germany with his Pilot's uniform on.

My great-grandfather fought in the romanian army in the eastern front in WW2, on the axis side.

>gets shot in the leg
>gets to a hospital
>no anesthesia in the place
>shits on the doctor from the pain of the bullet being removed
I'm talking a big spray of feces.
That's the only war story in my family. He fell in love with a blonde nurse, and later in life when he was senile he'd dissapear from the village some times, to get to the train station in the city and try to get a train to Poland to meet his blonde waifu. My grandmother (living in the city) had to go to the station and take him back to the village.

I have a Dutch great grandfather who was in the resistance and a communist like a lot resistance members of the time. He got caught with 12 other men, he was the only one of those who survived the camps. I still have some of his letter to his wife and a German bajonet he used to protect himself in the trip back home.
I also have a German great grandfather. He served as a combat medic in the army on the easternfront. Apparently he was a Stalingrad but im not sure (my grandmother told me this, she I hardly a military historian). He sometimes woke up screaming in the middle of the night about Russians.
Not super exciting I know, but its what I've got.

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>Be Grandfather
>get drafted in 01.10.1936
>IAmWaiting.mp3
>Poland
>tfw everyone is on Pervitin
>France
>drink and party
>eastern front
>Minsk, Kiev and Gomel
>get wounded near the tschernobyl area
>bullet missed the Heart by an inch
>after recovery they tried to get the caucasus oilfields but failed
>then he had some retreat fights in romania
>came back with thousand-yard-stare
>last months of the war he was instructor for nco´s in denmark

Pic is him rigth after Eastern Front

>>34333987
>Bofors 37mm
I don't think there is a bofors 37mm AA gun.

There's a bofors 37mm anti-tank gun and 20, 25 and 40mm AA guns.

>>34334135
Fight for your continent and volk if you value the memories of your ancestors. Get /fit/, make babies with a beautiful woman, and disdain the degenerates in your life.

You will not regret it in the end.

>>34335157

He probably means the M1939 (61-K) which was a 37mm Russian knockoff of the 40mm Bofors

Grandad on my dad's side was a railway official and conned the shit out of Nazis traveling through sweden to norway. He was one of the few guys at the railroad who spoke german and would often go up to soldiers and ask to see their tickets, study the ticket for a while and spout some bullshit about the ticket lacking a stamp and not being valid.

Having a non-valid ticket would of course mean they got thrown off the train, which would in turn mean they got marked down as deserters. Grandad would offer to "fix" their tickets for smokes, booze or chocolate. A pack of smokes or a bottle of booze is a small price to pay to not get shot jah, Fritz?

Grandad on mom's side helped train norwegian "mountain police", which everyone knew was hush-hush speak for resistance men, saboteurs and commandos. The norwegians would transfer over to sweden, stay for a few months doing stuff like marksmanship training, telemark skiing, ski jumping and english, swedish and german language training then ski over the mountains back to norway.
He also helped smuggle wanted finns over to sweden just to troll the shit out of russian/germans/whoever held finland at the moment.

Grandpa is a Korea vet

>tried to join army at age 14 in order to fight during ww2
>they almost let him in because he had a full beard, but they found out how young he was

>joined the marines and went to fight in Korea as a machine gunne
He told me a story once about walking up on a (dead) gook who had taken a mortar to the head and the round was still live, sticking out the top of his skull
He also said that his preferred method of shooting gooks was by raking the machine gun fire at knee height in order to disable them and burden the rest of the koreans with wounded men
My dad has his combat knife that he shanked multiple gooks with in hand to hand combat
He's still alive and well at 87, and his wife of 64 years, my grandma, passed away at the end of '15

>>34330618
it was in (((their))) plan all along

>>34334236
your dad was a fucking gook? Any more stories? Did he ever make a punji pit? Is he a commie?

>>34335370
NVA is the east german army as well

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>>34335370
Jesus Christ you fucking Tard

>>34329608
Dad:
>corpsman in Korea
>"borrows" jeep to take nurse up into the hills around Pusan
>finish fucking, head back to base
>sniper shoots radiator
>hauls ass down to a safe place, pisses in radiator
>continues on, gets away with it after giving motorpool chief bottle of scotch.

>>34332463
>my uncle gave it to me years back because he knew i was into WWII history, still have it to this day!
any pics anon?

>>34329608
my grandpa had some hilarious stories but the laughs came from his imitations of gooks

>>34329608
>Great Grandfather inna Western theater WWII
>In France
>Finds a tiny pupper
>Feeds pupper
>Pupper wont leave him
>Smuggles pupper in his pack, feeds him MRE's
>His buddies know but don't rat
>He somehow manages to smuggle the pupper back home
>Mother recalls the pupper only took commands in French for obvious reasons
Comfiest story in my family desu.
Also read some of the letters he wrote back home during Winter. Really sets a picture. Humbling stuff.

>>34332862
I can only agree with you to a point. See the part about him being a total asshole BEFORE Vietnam as well. He made my dad's life a living hell growing up. Also, I can't recall ever having met him, and I'm 32 (probably met him when I was 5 or some shit and don't recall); he's never expressed any interest in the fact that I exist. I find it hard to consider bothering. It's not even a spite thing; I just can't imagine the point.

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>>34329608

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>>34329608
i will take shit that did not happen for a thousand please Alex.
This is like the most repeated story ever. You would think Patton, Clark, Eisenhower would be sporting permanent black eyes. Hell American Vehicle losses were predominately as a result of Shit birds stealing and crashing them. If every story is to be believed

>>34335157
There are 37mm ones but they are rare, the Bofors factory would build in just about any caliber you wanted at one point or another.
I once was able to visit the Bofors museum while they were taking inventory of their non public pieces, there was a lot of unusual test versions of auto cannons for export anywhere from 20 to 45mm as well as experimental versions of their 20-57mm guns.

The Soviet Union tried some of these guns and also constructed a number of their own versions in 25-45mm.
While it is unlikely that one of these prototype guns were actually used in the war it is not impossible.

More likely is
>>34335200
Which is a scaled up version of a Bofors 25mm

>>34336148
We don't care about your shitty twitter account. don't spam that shit here.

>>34333513
USS New Jersey is BB-62. BB-64 is the USS Wisconsin which was in the US Navy Reserve Fleet (mothball fleet) during Vietnam.

Still a cool thing to share regardless, I for one have always loved accounts of the high impact violence battleships are capable of.

>>34330403

Why did you have to sell his bike?

>>34329608
The last (and only known) blood relative that has served was in the Civil War.

>Great great grandfather
>CSA
>Towards the end of the war
>Gets shot in the legs
>Left for dead
>Found by Union
>Taken to prison hospital
>One leg amputated, other saved.
>Escapes on one, wounded leg
>Hides in woods and evades capture for weeks
>Traitor Lee surrenders
>Word spreads that wars over
>GGGranddad hears news
>Comes out of hiding

Grandfather was in France at a certain point. Brought back Luger, Dagger, and Flags from the krauts.

Kekiest thing: Trained others on the 50cal. machine gun.

>Be grandpa Larry
>Do absolutely nothing noteworthy except fold parachutes the entirety of WWII

>Be other grandpa
>Filipino native forced to work in Jap shipyards
>Sabotage ship production during the day
>Scalp Japanese occupiers and ditch their bodies in the jungle by night

Even in his old age he was a scary fucker, always had a crazy eye and an exceedingly short temper.

>>34336594

He smuggled his machete into the states when he moved here, it had these redish rust spots along the edge I never asked about.

>>34336594
Murdering people with sharp objects is a time honoured tradition of flippos though

>>34336633
Do they sharpen their cargo ships too?

>>34336660
You can guarantee some flips where on the ACX Crystal
There would have been someone on that bridge going 'I bet you can't cut that destroyer'

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Great Grandfather on my mother's side:

RCAF electrical engineer. 1940 - 45.

He was an engineer in name, but often that involved having to clean out bits and pieces of men from the Lancasters. Told stories of the air crews afterwards just fucking shook to pieces. The smallest noises would send some into a panic. Stable and cool in the air, but wrecks when they were safe.

Great Grandfather on my father's side:

15 years in the Reichwehr/Wehrmacht 1930 - 1945

He saw a lot of shit, marched through Poland, the Low countries, France and then the Eastern Front until the end of the war. Rotated out, but always ended up back there.

Last months of the war, he was made a company commander and assigned to Walther Wenck's 12th Army and helped break through the Halbe Pocket. Got trapped in it for four days and lost half his company. Ordered his troops to shoot at Civilian SS men hanging male children for desertion after regular Heer uits sent the children that were rotated into their units off with German families to stay out of the fighting. Eventually after three attempts of smashing against the Soviet encirclement, he ended up breaking out and leading a few hundred civilians west to the Americans.

After the war he went back home to Hamburg, found out his family was dead, so he migrated to Canada and started a second family.

Grandfather, who married my Grandmother on my Mom's side

Danish child who went through the occupation. He was a little scoundrel who the Germans took a shining to. He started feeling some empathy to the common German soldier eventually.

He was the last one with real war experience left in the family, but he has dementia now. sucks.

>>34330422
>tfw when your family originated from near changchun
>tfw your grandpa helped smuggle supplies for the commies

Anon..

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> great grandpa on dad's side was on the eastern front as Wehrmacht soldier
> great grandpa on mom's side was on the eastern front as Romanian soldier
> they might have fought together

Unfortunately both of them were already dead when I was born and the first one didn't talk about the war at all. Must have seen some shit because he deserted, went into hiding in a monastery and burnt all of his equipment.

> tfw we could have had a pristine Wehrmacht uniform

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>>34330603

>Ended up shooting a bunch of troublesome Canadian prisoners and spent days making Indian prisoners bury bodies. They then shoot the Indians.. Ito emigrates to Canada after the War. Irony.


What part of 'If you kill your enemies, they win.' do you not understand?

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>>34329608
>grandpa was in the 82nd
>parachuted into France during D-Day
>took a shot to the leg during the drop
>other grandpa was a air traffic controller in the Navy and was stationed in Morocco during WW2
They don't tell much stories, because D-Day grandpa is pretty ashamed that he got hit and had to sit out a lot of the invasion. Navy grandpa's job was just not too eventful, the most exciting thing he would ever talk about was planes going down because they ran out of fuel.

>>34330347
in 50 years do you think your wife's son Abdul will care once he's finished his sex change?
Also, do you think your grandfather would think all that he went through was worth it?

>>34329608
Well this will go for a while

>be pap-pap.
>be born in 19 fucking 20
>deal with shittiest time until ww2
>might as well enlist and kill krauts I guess
>get juked.
>stationed in the fucking Philippines
>mosquitoes, rabid philiperinos and dogs everywhere
>fight the war covered in bites constantly doing dumb shit.
>Get demoted and promoted because of quote "annoying chink loving dog fucking officer pansies"
>after ww2 end go back home for a year or two and switch to the Air Force.
>assigned to USAFSF
>deal with drunk soldiers and the constant threat of getting our anus meat ground by commies
>Korean war starts.
>oh hell yeah something interesting
>get stationed in Germany for fucking once
>could'vbeenworse.jpeg
>deal with ex-Nazis apparently(?) and more drunk fucks
>steal Nazi wound-badge stickpin
>buy (or steal. Undetermined.) Kar98k
>sporterize the fuck outta that shit.
>steal 1919 barrel.
>replace Kar98k barrel with 1919s and get that thing chambered in 30-6
>fucktheAP.jpeg
>fuck around in Germany for a while taking as much currency and souvenirs as possible
>get assigned to American airbase in the British isle
>bring wife and kid
>refuse to let kid make friends with British kids because "I'm not lettin' my kids play with flag waving faggots who couldn't even kill a few krauts"
>adopt a German Shepard named modoc
>let modoc shit literally everywhere
>all over the base. Shit everywhere.
>move back to America
>settle down in Klamath
>loved every second of the military

>>34329608
I've got some funny ones.
>maternal grandfather
>enlists in US Army in 1940
>sits around Ft. Dix doing fuckall
>marries my grandmother in 1942, knocks her up with my oldest uncle
>is promoted to corporal during this time
>1944 rolls around, he's tagged for D-Day landings
>lands on Omaha Beach
>5 steps off the landing craft and in waist deep water gets konked over the head with something and knocked out
>someone drags him ashore and leaves him there, in the open
>wakes up on D+1, stands up, goes WTF, and wanders around until he finds his unit
>gets shot through the calf ~30 miles inland on D+2, gets sent to a field hospital back on the beach
>spends the next 3 weeks healing up and fucking all the Army nurses
>some bigwig finds out he's a tinkerer, gets reassigned to fix radios
>never goes further forward than some sleepy little town 20 miles from the beach
>as war drags on he follows his bigwig into France
>bigwig's headquarters is some quaint and relatively unscathed French village out in the boonies
>shacks up with random French chick and her husband for remainder of war
>literally cucks the husband
>ends up having 2 kids with her
>war ends
>decides he likes the Army and will stay in
>gets assigned to the Occupation Army in Germany, assigned to help demill the Walther plant
>builds seven P38's out of the parts bins in the factory
>goes on leave back home to meet his son for the first time
>gets my grandma pregnant again, this time with my mom; trades off 4 of the P38's and stashes the other 3
>goes back to Germany
>gets arrested for public nudity in the process of sodomizing a (male) East German guard, spends 6 weeks in detainment
>only not charged with sodomy because he's apparently a fucking wizard at fixing radios and they don't wanna kick him out
>Korean War kicks off
>he's promoted to SFC out of nowhere
>nahh fuck this, I already fought one war
>gets out
>comes home to see his second kid with his wife for the first time
>gets her pregnant again

>>34336916
Pics of the Mauser or it didn't be happen

>>34336924
Since I ran out of room
>shortly after returning stateside
>starts getting mail in French
>it's the French chick he had 2 kids with
>fesses up to his wife
>gets a "meh, it was war" response
>fuckyes.jpg
>grandma and the french lady become pen pals
>grandpa and the french lady continue to fuck whenever they're on the same continent
I have one of the P38's, the one he gave my mom when she got married (she passed last Easter).
Another was used to shoot a dindu trying to dindu Grandma in the 60's and was seized by the police, and my eldest uncle has the last and says he'll will it to me as I'm the only living relative that still gives a shit about guns.

>>34337014
I'm very sorry to hear about your mom, thanks for your epic participation in this thread. All y'all made this thread epic.

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>>34336948
Absolutely sporterized

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>>34337172
Sorry the photos don't show it off very well. Barely able to see the bolt in the last picture and the action in this one

My grandpa and his buddies stole a jeep from the Marines on Iwo Jima, painted it haze grey, stenciled their ship's name on it and kept it on their landing ship. Their CO would drive it around when they were in port. Until someone was auditing their onboard supply T.O. and tried to confiscate the jeep. The captain and this Quartermaster argued back and forth for close to 2 hours. Essentially just saying "It's not on the T.O. so you can't have it. It's not your jeep" "Well is it YOUR jeep?" "No, it's not my jeep" "Well then what's the problem?" before the captain gets fed up with the argument, has the Boatswains open the welldeck and lower the ramp, then he idled the jeep off the ramp and into the Pacific forever.

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>>34330403
>When my father was a kid he slingshotted and broke one of the windows of a particularly dumb neighbour whom Gramps particularly despised for the unforgiveable sin of being stupid. Gradma offered the furious retard monetary compensation for the broken glass, Gramps berated my dad for not breaking his other windows as well.

>>34329608
Great great great great great great great grandfather fought in the American Revolutionary War...

As a Hessian mercenary

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>>34329608
>polish grandpa
>joined Army Air Corps as an engineer
>part of the group that rebuilt Yontan on Okinawa for the B29s to drop nukes
>during a brief counterattack by Japanese troops early on he tripped and fell in a culvert and sliced his ass open
>complained about not getting a purple heart

>Irish grandpa
>guarded Japanese POWs
>one day during a friendly baseball game took a line drive to the forehead
>had amnesia for a few days until he fell off a barstool and wanged his head again
>complained that he shouldn't have gotten a purple heart

I wish they were still here to tell me more stories

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>>34330684
>>34330740
>>34331055
>>34331130
What is it about Finno-Ugrics that makes them so angry? Furious Finns and Mad Magyars especially.

Anyway, good stories.

>>34337084
No problem.

From my other grandpa:
>be college professor in 1943
>war were declared
>gets drafted as an E2
>halfway through boot camp someone finally figures out he has a Master's degree in calculus
>gets transferred to the Army Air Corps and "promoted" to first lieutenant (O2)
>assigned as a bombardier cuz could do the math for the Norton Bomb Sight
>eventually gets based in Italy
>has a relatively calm tour, never loses a plane, never lost a crewmate on his plane
>early on he's taking a shit on the in-plane shitter somewhere over Switzerland
>random AA gun targets their flight
>flak shell blows the toilet out from under him, he's completely unscathed
>but now with a half-frozen ass and balls, and covered in shit
>finishes mission covered in shit
Same deployment:
>warming up a can of beans on his tent stove
>someone starts a fight outside
>runs out to see what's going on
>forgets about the beans and fucks off to a card game in another tent
>several hours later the can of beans ruptures dramatically, shrapnel from either the can or the stovepipe cuts the main pole to the tent
>grandpa comes back to a totally collapsed tent
>thinks the rival squadron was pranking him
>goes and pisses in their lead plane's cockpit in revenge

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>>34337429
It's not about nationality, it's about what time they were born in.

>>34337445
>Flying over Switzerland during WWII
>Not Swiss

Switzerland maintained armed neutrality during WWII, probably explains why they were targeted. It's kinda odd that a US plane would fly across Swiss borders...

>>34337445
>thinks the rival squadron was pranking him
>pisses in their lead plane's cockpit in revenge
Kek'd

>>34334393
He made damn sure that the spacesuits can't lose their boots, shits cold up there man.

>>34330347
Brits used to be so hardcore. What happened?

>>34329608
I've got a lot of military family but never anything ultra outstanding really happened, especially during war time
>grandpa was interwar, finished boot just after ww2 and left service just before Korea
>drove supply routes across allied defenses in europe
>from all stories he seemed to be a pretty big player in italy, with a pretty great love life
>grandmother wont allow him to divulge much on it and a lot of pictures from Itsly have a girl torn out of them
Had a great grand uncle who flew spitfires as an american volunteer pilot for the RAF during the battle of britain, with a fairly impressive killcount
Grand uncle can be read about here: http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/F-89/1956_10_04_f89s_farmer_et_al.htm
Tl;dr collided with another plane midflight, ejected, survived in the woods for a couple weeks and recorded all of it
Same uncle went on to drop napalm during nam

>>34337445
Now on to my dad
>be 1966
>Vietnam War in full swing
>dad's a freshman in college
>grandpa (the bombardier from earlier) is postmaster
>draft letters coming
>dad and his brother both get one
>grandpa sees that they are "delayed" in being delivered
>"son, you need to go talk to the ROTC advisor TOMORROW MORNING. I'm not joking."
>dad now enrolled in ROTC. Uncle now drafted.
>fast forward to 1968. Despite being drafted 2 years ago uncle is still kicking around Ft Eustis for reasons unknown. Dad about to graduate early
>grandpa: "Son, have you thought about getting your Masters degree like I did?"
>dad: "I can't afford that"
>grandpa: "I'll find a way"
>grandpa pulls every string and calls in every favor he can to fund a graduate degree for dad, dad working 2 full time jobs in grad school to pay for it
>this delays his commissioning, thus delaying him going to Vietnam
>fast forward to 1970. Dad about to graduate early AGAIN with his MS in math education
>dad in top 15% of class, so guaranteed a regular Army commission instead of a reserve commission
>grandpa: "god dammit I was trying to keep you OUT of the war, why u gotta be such a good student?"
>September 1970 new 2LT dad ships for Vietnam
>dad is a Signal Corps officer
>dad is immediately stuck in charge of an ADA company despite being only a 2LT because the previous commander was fragged over being a total tightass about gambling
>dad's company shoots down 11 NV Migs, 1 Chinese cargo plane, and 1 Australian cargo plane
>dad meanwhile spends the entire deployment sitting on various courts martial boards
>dad develops seething hatred of drugs as a result, they're the primary reason for 99% of the courts martial
>ends up firing his weapon all of once in anger, a Vietcong sapper was in the process of planting a satchel charge on the radio tower
>dad domes him with his 1911 at a distance of about 3 inches, guy never stopped working on the charge to fight or run away as dad runs up to him

>>34330347
>> fought in 3rd Anglo-afghan war

tell more

>>34337495

Lots of aircraft from both sides got lost and ended up over Switzerland. The Swiss had a policy to force them down and intern the crews, or shoot them down if they had to; by war's end they had 198 captured aircraft, including a large number of Allied bombers.

>>34329608

>Uncle, Nam
>They use small chunks of C4 to clear LZ's for the huey's.
>give new guy the job.
>he heaves an entire brick
>LZ is large enough to land a squadron of huey's

>2nd tour
>be on FOB, stay back while others go on patrol, told if charlie shows up, just blow the charges and run
>proceeds to get drunk, nothing happens

>Grandfather.
>B-17 navigator.
>Normal plane isn't fit to fly so his crew get on replacement plan
>Make successful bombing run into Germany, plane gets flakked, one engine toast, others not far behind
>Tries to explain they are close enough they should push for Denmark.
>Pilot turns for the border but says fuck it plane isn't going to make it.
>Grandfather says no, we will just keep flying.
>Pilot says nope and gives order to jump.
>Everyone but my grandfather and one of the gunners jump over Germany, never heard from again.
>Plane makes it over the border, barely, and Grandfather and Gunner jump.
>As soon as they are on the ground they drop everything they have, gun, parachute, strip to pants and undershirt and toss everything into a haystack.
>farmer shows up, hauls my grandfather and gunner to house, get them civvies and drops them off with the underground.
>Underground wants to take my grandfather but not the gunner.
>Grandfather explains he won't go unless they take the gunner.
>Realizing they wont' get anything without the gunner, the underground gets them both paperwork and they take a week to get out of country
>Him and the gunner act like deaf mutes to the germans.
>Eating only finger foods and hiding in the cinemas when they weren't moving.

he made it out, and for years kept up with the underground members who helped him escape.

>>34337908
cont.
>dad rotates back stateside
>ends up in Ft. Huachuca, AZ and goes TDY to White Sands Missile Range a lot during the development and testing of various ICBM's and anti-ICBM missiles as a radio room overseer
>gets sent to Germany in 1980
>gets pulled out of Germany to support the invasion of Grenada
>never gets to set foot on Grenada, ends up as part of the command element in Barbados
>ends up back at Ft. Huachuca
>I'm born
>we all end up stationed in Germany again
>get to watch the Berlin Wall fall together
>grandpa comes and visits, we take a tour of (former west) Germany as a big family
>tour consists of my grandpa going "yeah, I bombed that. And that. And that."
>not 24 hours after Grandpa flies back to the states Dad gets PCS orders to Ft. Lewis
>dad gets a battalion command
>8 months later dad is called up for Desert Shield
>Desert Shield becomes Desert Storm and over the border he goes
>he's now a LTC (O5) and a battalion commander so he's way back in the rear
>claims he never even saw a single living Iraqi
>someone shoots at him anyway
>gets creased across the top of both ass cheeks
>purple heart from something he literally slapped 3 bandaids on and called it good
>"I survived vietnam for this?"

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>>34337938
>At the end of world war II with the Allies disengaging and France, Germany and Italy in ruins, the Swiss begin a glorious territorial expansion with captured Allied and Axis equipment and nazi gold paid out to former Wehrmacht soldiers to fight for the Toblerone Reich.

Oh man, I didn't know how badly I wanted this.

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>dedushka
>great grandparents kicked out of russia because they're bourgeoise
>born in kazakhstan in 1920s
>go to china in the 30s or 40s
>run moonshine to keep family afloat
>fight in chinese civil war
>"i shot at people but i never killed anyone"
>"i think"

>>34330250
>>34330347
Weeeeeeell shit.
Am I the ONLY person with literally no relatives who actually did anything?

My mothers side was all flat footed and managed to get deployed stateside for every. Fucking. War. ever.
My Fathers was a bunch of low IQ hill rats who they never trusted to do anything more than mopping floors.

Well.
Except one. He wound up as a POW guard in the pacific. But apparently his time was boring as fuck and he said he didn't do shit.

My grandfather on my father's side was a fighter pilot in korea, but he never would talk much about his experience there.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a helicopter pilot in nam, and would later on become the foreign sales rep for bell helicopters, and would go and make sales pitches to a ton of foreign government leaders.

My great grandfather i don't know much about, only that he was a communications line runner for telephone and telegraph cable during ww1. I don't have it now, but the korea grandfather has all of his maps of ww1 communication lines he and his unit laid throughout the war, which is really interesting and awesome.

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>>34329608

>be my relative
>NCO inna army
>onna flightline
>getting ready to leave for the day
>after mission, doing post flight checks
>my relative and another NCO were waiting for confirmation of securng aircraft
>lowest ranking person on the crew (not sure of actual rank) was asked to give report
>all secure, everything looks good, fuel tank is almost full
>waitasecond.jpeg
>the power supply was secured, how did you check the fuel
>the aircraft power wasnt on so i just used my lighter as a light to look into the fuel tank
>tfw they were almost blown up by a full tank of jet fuel
>tfw the only reason I am here today is because it happened to be cold outside so the fuel vapors didn't waft out of the aircraft

I am told that the guy was promptly fired after that, I will have to ask relatives for some more great stories.

>>34329608
>Grandfather is a tool and die maker
>War starts
>Gets married and drafted
>Becomes Army Engineer, and is sent to the Pacific
>On the ship going to the war zone, a dude falls off the deck and they can't turn around because of Jap subs, have to leave him for the sharks, can hear him screaming as they cruise on
>Builds airfields with heavy equipment
>Deployed to New Guinea and the Philippines
>Comrade is hit by an accidental discharge from some dumbass in camp and dies in grandpa's arms
>Japs are in caves, so they take dozers and push dirt and rocks over the entrance leaving a small hole at the top, pour gas in and light it off
>Is offered a leave opportunity and refuses it
>the plane he would have been on crashed and all aboard were killed
Thanks, grandpa

>Great Uncle speaks/reads Russian from youth
>War starts
>becomes foreign language teacher in US Army and teaches translators

>Great Uncle 2 goes into Army Air Corps
>Bombardier on B-24
>Gets shot down over Poland
>crew bails out
>Uncle lands wrong and gets a broken back
>crawls for miles
>Speaks Polish and Russian
>Is picked up by Polish civilians and ferried East to Red Army troops
>Taken in by Red Army and sent back to US forces

>Great Uncle 3 goes into Army
>captured during Battle of the Bulge
>sent to horrible camps
>prisoners starving
>eats rats, stops short of eating human flesh of dead prisoners
>covers up with dead guys at night

>>34338331
My grandpa was a POW guard in Japan after the war and pretty much describes it as being in vegas with guns

This is my great grand uncle or whatever you'd call the brother of my great grandma. http://ourgrinnell.com/i-was-once-lost-but-now-i-am-found-the-redemption-of-pvt-harry-wallace/

>>34330740
>cccp
I laughed

>>34330403
>had to sell the bike
Must be fun being addicted to drugs.

I think the part about the Indianapolis might not have been true. Still, I'll include it:

>Be Great-Grandpa
>Be Giant, Smart Polack from Chicago
>Get expelled from schools though, starts too many fights
>Becomes boxer
>WWII
>Joins Navy
>Becomes Torpedo Bomber Crew Chief
>On the USS Lexington
>Battle of the Coral Sea
>Ship goes down, survives
>Gets reassigned to the USS Indianapolis
>Survives, doesn't become shark bait
>Returns to the US
>Won't ever go out to sea. Ever again.
>Stays in Navy a couple of years
>Joins Lockheed
>Tests technologies, like the rebreather
>Retires, becomes mechanic
>Fixes cars and shit in California and Arizona, until they become too digital
>Passes when I'm three

It fucking sucks that I never was able to talk with him. All I get are stories passed from him to my Mom and other, more distant relatives.

>>34339102

Grandpa, on Dad's side

>Be from bumfuck nowhere, Alabama
>Son of traveling salesman, who died
>Had several siblings, many of whom died
>Like radios
>Become proficient with radios
>Be 17
>Go to Korea
>Be Radioman in Korea
>Assist with intel
>Come back
>Army aviation starts up
>Learns to fly copters
>Vietnam
>Fly Hueys one tour
>Fly Bird Dogs another
>Fly Huey Gunships, in presumably his last
>Get shot in shoulder
>Get sent back to the states
>Get degrees in engineering
>Rise up the ranks
>Become Colonel
>Retire before becoming General
>Become Professor at a state college
>Teach for twenty years
>Retire to a comfy lakehouse for his golden years

If it wasn't for my bitch of a step-grandma, the man would be happier at the second.

>Be my great grand daddy. I knew him as Big Grandpa, he was a big dude.
>join army when WWII kicks off
>everyone is into it
>better pay than factory work in detroit
>see the world
>ride train to Tennessee after enlistment for training
>Michigan boy in Tennessee in July
>fuckthat.png
>see a tent with a lone out
>whats that says anons big grandpa
>fellow army guys informs him they are recruiting for a special kind of assault troop
>they are also giving out cold drinks and free shade
>Great Grandpa decided shade is nice.
>passes exams and is now an Army Ranger
>fast forward to June 6th 1944
>be apart of first wave on Omaha beach, 5th rangers, company E

too long of a story to type, and the memoirs are a bit hazy for me now.

My good friend/recently deceased relative who fought in WWII served as a medical orderly in a U.S. Army field hospital attached to the Nationalist Chinese Army. I asked him about close calls or combat action he may have seen. He was like: yeah, this one time we snuck down into the front line trenches during a battle to get a look around and ohh, that was such a horrible mistake, we could have gotten killed. Like 70 years later he was lamenting it like it was the worst mistake he ever made in life. He also talked about seeing horribly mutilated Japanese corpses after they took some city following a siege and how the Chinese peasants would "sell their children for a bag of rice". For /k/ info, he had a Springfield M-1903 as his issue weapon for the duration of the war and I don't think ever fired it at the enemy.

One of my more distant relatives was a AAF-USAF officer from WWII through Vietnam. He was leading a group of fighter bombers on an attack run over N.Vietnam to destroy a bridge and got shot down and then somehow bailed out over China. The Chinese then bragged on radio that they had captured him giving his rank and serial number though it is unclear whether or not he was even alive at that point. That's where the trail ends. He is sort of a poster boy for those MIA flags you used to see flown.

>>34334051
>canyon jews

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>Be my dad.
>Be in Somalia
>Some dindu comes and stabs him in the leg with bayonet
>ANGERY.jpg
>Grabs gun and proceeds to make dindu wish he was never born.
>bashes with butt of gun over and over
>Throws bayonet and starts jabbing with barrel.
>All this while fellow squad watches in horror.
>Eventually realize they gotta go.
>Pulls my dad off dindu
>Said all the noise he could make was from gurgling blood
>Squad leader tells commander what happened
>Honorably discharged that month for being too good at war.
>Joins army 2 weeks later and goes from Corporal to Sargent.

>>34335247
you should visit your grandpa

Grandad's Uncle was a sailor during both world wars as he started his career at 14 by lying about his age. The family legends say he sailed under neutral flag throughout the wars but took on both german and allies merchant raiders during both world wars. He survived getting the ship torpedoed out from under him twice and had a lot of close encounters with prize crews trying to board the ships he was on.

After WWII he took a bullet to the hip from a drunk policeman that ended his sailor career. Instead he ended up doing oddjobs around town like being a stoker for the local bathhouse and schools, fixing cars and some minor gusmithing jobs