Personal history thread.
Do you have any significant or interesting ties to history?
My grandfather was a WW2 P-47 fighter pilot, he flew 117 missions (mixture of bombing and escorting) across Europe, and junked (so shot up they became unusable) 17 planes total.
His planes name was the "El Texano".
This is the interesting part.
He was one of the only recorded Pilot of WW2 to fly a German aircraft with his own flight tag painted upon the side.
Here is what's more interesting,
The plane he flew was from the very own
Hans Ulrich Rudels flight squadron.
http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/kitzingen.htm
"FW 190 F-8 W.Nr 584 584 'White 9 + -' 4./S.G. 2
An FW 190Jabobuilt by Arado at Warnemünde, this ircraft had the bulged canopy of later FW 190s. After capture, it was painted with the star and bars, and the 509th FS code of 'G9 - T' was applied. It retained theHakenkreuz, and was probably flown only once by Lt. Oscar Theis, a Texan."
His story was he knew some German, enough to fly it, and went around the airfield some times until a little red light came on.
Well he couldn't read that red light and proclaimed
"Goddammit the wars over, I'm not going to die in some kraut piece of shit!"
And landed.
Oh, he also has a patent.
http://www.google.com/patents/US2825416
So anons, what is your families contribution to history?
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Hello, German here.
Not a Nazi but funny story from grandad about the war.
>be grandad
>be out east
>capture some Russians, about 5 of them
>some Partizans try and attack us, kill two and capture three; all Jewish
>fucking around waiting to get them picked up
Okey
>commander walks around and goes finds three shovels
>throws them at Russians feet, tells Jews to get in Hole over there
>tells Russians to bury jews
>Russians just look around and don't do it
>tells Russians to get in hole and Jews to bury Russians
>Jews instantly start burying Russians
"So you see, the nature of the Jew?"
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>>341347
Lol
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My father was a Stormtrooper with Commander George Lincoln Rockwell.
/his/ hates to hear about it.
My grandfather sat in a bomber.
1962 was kinda stressful for him.
Well.
This idea failed.
I guess typing
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
Is better for responses
>>341302
My great grandfather fought at Normandy. I dont know what beach or anything other than that.
>>341420
i'm a jew but rockwell is probably my favorite nazi
pretty consistent, supported black nats, educated, made good arguments
>>341472
Cool!
Did he survive?
I'm assuming so, Normandy was pretty brutal and if it failed the war was basically on its head. (Hitler didn't use his reserve troops when he should have)
MY GRANDFATHER FOUGHT WITH LEONIDAS AGAINST XERXES' ARMY IN THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE; WHEN I WAS FIVE YEARS OF AGE HE SHOWED ME THE JOURNAL THAT HE KEPT DURING THE BATTLE.
>>341420
My mother is a Rhodesian.
/his/ REALLY hates me.
Although I'm pretty sure it's one or two posters only. They spam the same shit in every Rhdoesia thread and then say that I make them.
>>341480
Yeah. He passed away a few years ago though.
>>341488
Besides obvious bullshit.
>Field journal
>in the hellinistic era
What did he carry around a vat of ironed ink and a fine feather to write with?
>>341490
Meh, win some lose some. I love Rhodesia's pre-UDI history as it shows what shit fest Rhdoesia was handed.
>>341507
Ah, shame.
Mine did aswell. He left me his rifles and his books and a Germans officer saber that he captured.
I wish I could know him in his youth. My father says I'm just like him....
A dick.
>>341508
>>Field journal
>>in the hellinistic era
>What did he carry around a vat of ironed ink and a fine feather to write with?
You're easy prey, man.
>>341538
He shits up literally every single one of my threads.
>>341302
The closest I've got is that my grandfather was a Mossad agent who gathered some intel on the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war. Most of it wasn't even confidential stuff though, he said that 90% of his service there was him sitting at coffeehouses and gossiping with people.
>>341573
I guess that's cool.
I know nothing about Mossad.
I have a few ancestors that fought in the American Revolution (both sides) and I'm related to Patrick "give me liberty or give me death" Henry. My family has been here for a long goddamn time; I found a paternal ancestor that came over in 1628 and a maternal ancestor that came over in 1648.
My grandfather also spent 36 years and three wars in the Marine Corps; he fought as an enlisted man in WWII and then commanded the 1st Marines in Korea as a Captain and I MAF in IT AIN'T ME as a full bird before going out a few years later as a Brigadier General. He probably would have gone a few ranks higher if he wasn't a divorcee; he had immaculate professional and personal records otherwise and loved his job.
>>341592
My dad's senior roommate in the core once told a full bird to open a door for him when he was in the air force.
Almost got kicked out.
Crazy motherfucker.
>>341583
I mean, it's a spy agency. It's probably not that different from any given nation's intelligence service.
About the only personal experience I had with them was back a bit, when we tried to get grandfather's pension. We had a devil of a time dealing with their bureaucrats, and proving old gramps was who he said he was, an issue complicated that a lot of his service reports were done under the dozen or so fake identities they kitted him out with.
>>341625
>it's hard getting money from a Jewish government
Kek.
>>341625
> It's probably not that different from any given nation's intelligence service.
Except literally da joos and zionist conspiracies.
>>341302
My grandfather was in the Hitler Youth.
>>341664
I actually love the Hitler Youth.
Fantastic organization for the young boys of Germany.
I'm related to Andrew Jackson
>>341675
It was, He said he lived as an absolute destitute farm hand before it. He mostly built roads and helped refugees load/unload from trains who were escaping from the Russians on the eastern front towards the end of the war.
>>341302
My grandfather was in the Welch fusiliers in ww 1 I don't know about Gallipoli but he was in Mesopotamia and salonika. Iraq against the Turks. My father was in the RN shipped the gold out of the UK to Canada, he said you just walked over the gold bars on the deck. Convoys, far east fleet when force z was sunk, fall of Singapore, Indian ocean raid. Don't know about Normandy but his ship was bombed, did not explode. He was also in Iraq during ww 2 for the war when there was an attempt to hand Iraq to the Germans. That caliph who was friends with Hitler got his arse kicked out of Iraq and ended up in Berlin. I was too old to be sent for the last one in Iraq, just as well what's the odds on the family surviving 3 wars there.
I've got a direct line of descendance from the McCoy family, the exact same McCoys from the feud.
>inb4 inbreeding
>>341302
My grandmothers family has ties to the ruling elite in El Salvador that orchestrated the civil war.
apparently her family disavowed her after marrying a commoner, My grandfather, who became a dean of the university in the capital.
He literally escaped the hit men that executed the staff of the university by taking a "vacation" to Mexico.
My dad told us gruesome memories of growing up around so much death.
Also my family had lots of debt slaves prior to the war.
My cousin, who is an absolute idiot but loves genealogy, unknowingly traced my mother's side of the family back to Button Gwinnett. She had no idea who it was. Other than signing the Declaration of Independence, he's not that interesting, but it's something of a twofer since he's descended from Thomas Button who searched for the Northwest Passage and attempted to rescue Henry Hudson.
All my great-grandads fought in WW2. All 4 made it out alive, one was en route to Stalingrad when the shit went down(fighting on the /pol/ side). 2 ended up in Soviet labor camps, but were sent home in '46 I think. One joined the partisans(can't be fucked to remember if it was chetniks or commies, I think it was commies) and proudly proclaimed even on his last feet that he killed 2 dozen Prinz Eugen SS men, including 2 officers. His brother was hanged by Germans in 44 because the fucking priest of all people denounced him, so when he got home he killed the fucker and had him crucified upside down. He was a mean mother fucker.
My grandfather hid Danish resistance fighters in the attic on their farm for a night. He would also bury weapon drops in the forest so that the occupation force wouldn't find them.
Other than that my father and his brother are deep into genealogy and found that i'm a descendant of a viking who ruled the isle of man. Also one of my ancestors banged the sister of famed danish/norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg.
My great grandad fought in Czechoslovak Legions. Got to Vladivostok with his army and then went to China instead of returning to his liberated homeland.
>>341302
That's actually cool as shit.
>>341302
Found a pic of a P-47, possibly a D model, with the words "El Texano" on the engine cowling. Is this his?
My grandpa got kicked out of the army air corp for reckless flying. Crashed too many planes. Might of saved his life since the last one was when he was going to fly from America to England in preparation for D day. Wrecked his B17 on the runway.
My great-grandfather fought in WW2 and didn't want to go home after because he got the yellow fever BAD.
Which sounds funny until you remember he had a wife and seven kids back home at the farm. Then it becomes hilarious and a fun dinner table conversation.
>>341480
Quick fact, war still would have been won, 1944 is too late to change anything. Pretty much what will happen at this point is eventually the Allies would still land somewhere else, or focus on Italy. The Soviets probably would have occupied all of Germany and parts of Western Europe.
Two.
Great-grandfathers brother was there for the liberation of Dachau. Became an alcoholic over it and only spoke of it once: for my aunts college thesis.
Another relative was an original member of Darby's Rangers, the 1st battalion of Rangers. He goes to England and trains with the British Commandos, fights in Northern Africa, Italy, and then drops into St. Mere Eglise during the Normandy invasion. If that weren't enough, he briefly served in the Pacific after VE Day and the Korean War. He wrote a book about it that was later turned into a James Garner movie.
One of my family members was a political prisoner that died at Dachau, whilst some of his family members were in the Wehrmacht. It's not very interesting, just kind of ironic.
>>341723
>McCoy family
Hatfield reporting.
On my father's side I have two great uncles who fought during world war 2. One was a paratrooper who took part in D-Day and the other a Marine who fought in Okinawa. He talked about having to fish out the dead bodies of women who were jumping off cliffs which was kind of sobering.
On my mother's side I'm descended from the Nicot family, where the word nicotene comes from. Jean Nicot introduced tobacco to France.
My family fought in the American Revolution on the side of the Brits and got rewarded with land in Nova Scotia as united empire loyalists and my great great uncle fought in ww1 as a pilot
>>341302
My great-grandfather was U.S Army Air Corps.
He operated a bulldozer while under fire to build an airstrip at the Battle of the Bulge. Did some other things which he refused to talk about sixty years later, but he had a real SS dagger as war prize in his safe. Must have done /something/ to get a Belgian Croix de Guerre, two Bronze Stars and a Silver Star with clusters. Like I said, wouldn't talk about it.
Got half his face blown off, and furloughed in England. After he got literally patched up, he met a nurse at an RAF station, offered to drive her home. They pulled up to Buckingham Palace, and the guards saluted. Turns out "Miss Lizzy" was a little more than she appeared. For the duration of his stay in England, Rhodes was the Princess Royal's unofficial driver. At his funeral we got a letter thanking him for his service to the Crown.
His full name was Thomas Jefferson "Dusty" Rhodes.
>>341302
>Grandpa was a boy in Denmark when the Germans marched in.
>his dad started running armaments out to the country, his mom helped smuggle Jews to Sweden (Fucking kek)
>Be a little shithead about it and start to play pranks on Germans.
>His favourite trick was him leaving his wallet out on the road, tied to a string and pull on it whenever German soldiers went out to grab it.
>Does it one day to the local unit commander.
>Gets spotted ohshit
>Officer comes over and starts laughing, he remember's the German major clasping his shoulder so hard that he nearly collapsed
>"Good trick, boy."
>Gave him a piece of chocolate and left
>Grandpa being a stupid kid continued pulling the prank on soldiers.
> A few months later he's still doing the trick
>Does it to a grey uniformed German
> Just pranked a young asshole Sturmbannfuhrer in the Allgemeine-SS
>Grandpa gets spotted by him, SS man started slapping him silly. Bruises cuts, a pistol is pulled.
>The the local garrison troops watch it unfold. One runs and gets the Major.
>Major comes, forces the SS man to back down.
>SS man leaves
>German Major cleans grandpa up and takes him home. Tells his parents it might be time for him to get a new hobby.
>Great Grandpa agrees, German leaves. >Grandpa's dad stops running guns to the resistance, put's Grandpa to work at the store
>Major gets redeployed to the Eastern Front.
Decades later Grandpa looked him up. The Mjaor is one of the many thousands of missing
>1943
>Grandpa is a teen now working at the store
>Befriends a group of 17-18 year old Germans over the course of five months
>They get their deployment papers to the Eastern Front in early 1944.
>Most of them are weeping at the orders.
>Grandpa feels bad, pays for all their groceries with his own money and wishes them luck
Only one came back in 1956ish.
>winter 1945/46
>Thousands of refugee's are in Denmark, starving and miserable. Treated with apathy. many die
>Grandpa's parents take in three orphans.
>>341397
Don't leave out the part where he almost committed a murder-suicide with a girl he had a crush on.
>>345730
Some Germans good, some are bad.
I would say most were good.
>>341302
>be granddad
>get bombed
>have a monument dedicated to the cowards attacking civilian infrastructure
Fucking americans.
>>345807
Cyca? Bylat?
>>341302
This is my grest uncle, Evans carlson.
(from wikipedia) " was a decorated and retired United States Marine Corps general officer who was the legendary leader of "Carlson's Raiders", during World War II crediting him as the forefather of one of America's first U.S. special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942, and their "Long Patrol" (aka Carlson's patrol) behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, in which 488 Japanese were killed."
Ill post a screencap of his fought battles and awards next.
He died after the war, so i sadly never met him, but they did make a totally horseshit movie about him called "gung ho"
>>347197
Great* fuck, sorry.
>>341490
I love Rhodesians though
Much better than the kuck South Africans
>>341302
>Personal history thread.
>Do you have any significant or interesting ties to history?
Great Grandfather was a soldier in the KMT/Chinese nationalist army.
He fought the Japs, got shot and had to retreat to a little village. He hid inside one of the farmer's houses and a woman took care of his wounds. That woman became my great grandmother.
>>347222
Rad
He got free medical care AND poon.
>>341490
Did she ever talk about living there?
Im curious, and would like to hear.
>>347280
I have journals and stuff, I'll talk in a little.
>>347282
Alright, thanks.
>>345412
>Marine who fought in Okinawa
My grandpa was there, 1st Marine Division, I think. Don't remember the regiment. He hated the Japanese until the day he died and refused to buy any Japanese products or sometimes Asian food even though we would tell him it was Chinese or Indian.
yfw all Hiro has to do is sell our IP addresses to unscrupulous fools. They could kill us all and immediately kill some of the most culturally knowledgeable people in the world. Then they can brainwash the general populace once we, in our graves, cannot speak against falsehood.
>implying that doesn't already happen
I'll share a story from my pop's friend. Time: sometime between 1970 and 1990.
>In the army, just switched from something in combat arms over to engineering.
>In clunky engineer's boots, just finished some training, about to change out of boots.
>SF is on mind.
>Suddenly, superior asks around if anyone knows how to operate bulldozers.
>Oh well just one more job aint that much.
>"Sir, I can! I grew up around a family in construction."
>Oh, okay, go use the restroom, then come with me.
>Seargent leads toward a <flying machine>.
>Lots of rangers sitting.
>Uhm....
>*CLANK*
>*WHIIR*
>OhBoy.jpeg
>Some rangers help out with padding. They are strapping a lot of padding on....
>Diapers. Wait, where are we going?! Lots of diapers and duct tape.
>Jumpin, of course!
>Quick instructions on how to jump.
>Oh, you guys use diapers to jump?
>No.
>Uh... Why do I have diapers? And... Pillow... Things...
>Oh, because you'll need them! Thank us later.
>Get instructions on task.
>Sprint to nearest bulldozer and clear airstrip
>Don't look at anything but the bulldozer.
>Oh, this must be training! Neat!
>*Brrr....*
>*Pow Pow Pow*
>*Prsch Clank*
>uh, we are being shot with live ammunition....
>Yup!
>Why didn't you tell me we were going to a battle!!!
>*CHINK*
>Time to jump.
> Everyone jumps like it's nothing.
>WHY IS THE GROUND SO CLOSE!!!
>But you have coushins!
>In seconds, couple dozen rangers are fighting 360 degrees of <enemy> going up several stories, all surrounding a modern airport.
>FUCK
>Break Olympic world record.
>Bulldozer reached and engaged.
>Everyone is shooting at me!
>Diaper: engaged.
Imagine shooting at a giant white ball of fluff piloting a bulldozer.
>Lt. James L. Hansen 02012004 then Tech. Sgt., 37464729, while serving with the Army of the United States, distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in connection with the military operation in Germany on 23 Feb. 1945. After crossing the Roar River, Lt. Hansen reorganized scattered elements of his platoon and led them towards their objective. When their advance was threatened by concealed enemy fire he moved courageously over fire swept terrain to direct fire on harassing emplacements. After killing one gunner, he crawled forward and dispatched three more and then led his platoon forward in another attack. Through his courage and exemplary leadership, Lt. Hansen was largely responsible for the success of his platoon in reaching its objective. The extraordinary heroism and courageous action of Lt. Hansen is in keeping with the highest tradition of the Military Service.
1/2
>I passed on one side of the building and saw a large trench. Upon investigation, I saw bodies lying at the bottom. I heard shouts from the other side of the building and went there. The horrid scene unfolded in front of us. We saw heads and hands sticking out from under the doors. It looked like they had dug that far out with their bare hands.
The discovery was reported to company headquarters and on up the chain of commands. S-2 and G-2 Officers gathered at the scene Some more survivors that had escaped showed up and were being questioned by the officers. Two German officials, a man and a woman, were brought to the scene and were being questioned. One of the prisoners seized one of the officer's pistol and shot the German man. His prison mates grabbed the German and dragged him to the corner of the building where some gasoline cans sat, poured gasoline on him and set him afire. This happened so fast I guess everyone froze.
The town officials were rounded up, taken to the scene, and all doors were opened. Three on each side. The officials were made to clear a path from one door across to the other door. This was probably my most sickening experience. After the three lanes were cleared we went back into town and brought everyone that could walk to the scene. They were made to walk thru the lanes to view the atrocity. Those that fainted were carried thru by those that didn't.
Higher officials now took over the scene and we continued on with the war.
Thru the years, I have often wondered how so many people could be brain-washed by so few degenerates.
>>347508
How are you related to him?
And the second half isn't very descriptive and very unrealistic.
My great grandpa served on the USS Missouri in WW2.
My grandad blew up a Japanese train from a submarine.
Well, the crew did.
USS Barb
Look at the bottom of the flag
>>341302
My great grandfather went on a destroyer escort in the Pacific right when thewar began. He was a gunner's mate. Left very soon after to go back and take care of his Polio infected wife and my baby grandmother.
My stepfather was a US Army Ranger, 101st airbone. Got to a Sargent of some kind, taught people how to jump from airplanes. Dunno what else he did
>>347570
I am also related to Cactus Jack, AKA John Nance Garner. It's weird. I have no idea what he did
>>347483
Im just curious as to what life was like there
What she thought of it ect.
My great grandfather stole a whole stable of horses from the Tsar, successfuly sold them back to him and fled to America before he realized they were the same horses.
And here I am, more spaghetti than flesh
My grandfather's cousin had two ships sunk from under him, including one at Pearl Harbor. After the war he met and married the head nurse from Patton's army. Their children all grew up to be terrible people though.
Maternal Grandfather fought for the British during WW2 and landed on Sword beach if I recall correctly. I never really spoke to him about it which I really regret now that he's passed.
My paternal Grandfather fought in the Rhodesian Bush War as an infantryman and later as a recon specialist. He spoke Shona about as well as the Africans did so his job was to be painted black and go sit in dimly lit pubs listening to what the Africans were talking about. he only did that for a little while before quitting due to the stress.
More distantly I'm also related to a South African police officer dubbed "Prime Evil" by the media for what he did during the apartheid.
Going back even further I'm descended from the Chatillion family of France and had relatives in the Crusades.
>>347389
I honestly have no clue at all what you wrote, are you insane?
