This is my Great-great-grandfather serving in WW1 as a sick carrier.
>>29703100
Sick carrier?
Er ist Artz, nicht?
>>29703122
Krankenträger is the german word.
>>29703144
Litter Bearer is the English equivalent
>>29703167
THX
>>29703100
>>29703144
Anyway here is my Great-Grandfather's uniform.
He was a medic.
>>29703187
Still got it?
I only got photos and papers.
He was awarded with the Iron Cross 1914 2. class and a hessian medal for serving as a Litter Bearer.
>>29703100
Was he Prussian? Bavarian? Wurtemburg?
I love knowing details like that because the Germans then used to keep units based on locale.
>>29703187
That model uniform was the best looking uniform we ever had, in my opinion.
>>29703315
hessian, you can see it by looking at the belt buckle.
>>29703187
>>29703327
I do still have it. Hangs in my closet
>>29703771
Nice. I would also love to have a uniform of a ancestors, but only got photos and papers.
Thats my great-uncle. KIA on the 24.04.42 fighting bolshevism in russia.
Nobody else some photos?
>>29703964
If I wanted to post a photo of my German ancestors, it would be a painting. I can trace my heritage to Hessian mercenaries during the American Revolution.
>>29704711
>trace my heritage to Hessian mercenaries during the American Revolution.
Holy shit
Thats mad dude.
I was reading up on my great grrandfather who fought in north africa in ww2 for Australia.
I was reading that he was in training for 18 months so i looked up what unit it was in, turns out he was in special intelligence, and he was only there for 2 weeks because he got critically injured and had to come home.
Grandfather was a Marine engineer in nam, my dad was a doctor attached to second armored in Desert Storm, and my grandfather-in-law was a watercooled 1917 browning machine gunner in the pacific theater of WW2.
Pic of grandfather in nam
>>29705612
>trains for year and a half
>serves in theater two weeks
>gets wounded badly
>end of tour
Damn.
Grandfather and his brothers. Grandfather served in the pacific in WW2. Reenlisted for Korea but got stationed as a mechanic in Germany.
My great-grandpa Edward (or Ned for short). He was born in Minnesota in 1895 and fought in WW1 as an infantryman.
>>29705754
Back when everyone served.
>>29705770
MNbro, nice.
Apparently this is my great grandfather. Not sure which (if any wars) he served. He's obviously from a better time, though
>>29706143
Dope as fuck
>tfw no pic of my partisan great grandfather
I don't have a pic of Pop-pop. All I have is this.
>In late 1945, General Marshall made his final report on the conduct of the Second World War to President Harry Truman. The government decided to declassify his report and make it available to the general public, price $1. It tells you -- not with the polish of history on it, but at the time -- what the people running the American war effort were up to; what decions they made and why they made them. Strategy, tactics, logistics, weapons development and doctrine, the rations the GI's ate, why we never produced a heavy battle tank, why we didn't invade Normandy in 1943... everything, all in minute detail, including a lot of stuff that never seems to make it into the history books. (You'll never fully appreciate, for example, what a horrendously complex operation DE-mobilization after a global war is until General Marshall explains to to you.)
>They must have printed millions of these, each with its own advertisements for local businesses and a section of What Our Community Did During The War, but after a lifetime of haunting estate sales and antique shops this is the only copy I have ever been able to find. And now it is yours. I've scanned in everything in order, blank pages included. All you have to do is print out double-sided copies on heavy paper stock and have it spiral bound, and you will have a very fair copy of the original.
https://kickass.to/marshall-victory-report-naval-radio-traffic-on-the-eve-of-the-armistice-from-original-scanned-in-source-docs-t8901702.html
>>29708267
>I've also included a completely unique historical document -- a transcript of the telegraph traffic on the eve of the Armistice as recieved by the British Home Fleet. In 1917, my grandfather ran away from home and joined the Navy as soon as he heard we'd declared war on the Kaiser. He spent the rest of the war working in the #2 magazine of the USS Arkansas, itself attached to the Sixth Battle Squadron, which in turn was attached to the Home Fleet. Pop-pop had a friend who was telegraph operator on board USS New York, the American flagship, and asked him to save this document, thinking it might be interesting to look at later. So -- despite a potential firing squad for both of them, since the war was still officially on -- his friend stuck these papers down his pants leg and walked off the ship with them. It contains a full account of His Majesty's address to the Fleet, the Brits and Germans talking urgently with each other about where everybody's minefields and submarines were, and the British and American task forces signing off to each other. (The British farewell is especially lulzy. 'Come back soon' indeed...)
>Pop-pop is long gone, as his his ship. But the document has survived, still held together by a rusty steel paper clip. There is very likely no other copy in existence.... except yours. Keep it well for me. (The original scan was of both top and bottom of each page, since the original stock was too long to fit on my scanner. Many thanks to the kind anon on 4chan who photoshopped them together).
>>29706143
Awesome photo. Dude could be the face of an old tobbacco brand.
>>29703100
My great grandpa fought in the Polish army in WW1. Ended up being captured by the Russians and spent two years in a POW camp. After the war, the Polish government came to draft him again, so he and his wife fled to Austria. The Poles apparently knew where he was living, so he hopped on a boat to NYC. 7 years later, he had enough money to bring over his wife and his daughter whom he, until then, hadn't met. The rest is history. Wish I knew more about him.
I also had two uncles on different sides of my family that were at Omaha beach, but I had no idea until they passed away and a folded flag was presented at the funerals.
My great great grandfather fought with the royal bavarian riverpioneers, this is his "Reservistenkrug"
>>29708277
Thanks
My grandad finished flight training school just in time to navigate on Lancaster bombers for the RAF in Korea. Following that, he was one of the crew they used to fly the aircraft in the movie "Dambusters".
Fast forward on about a decade, and he gets assigned on to another Avro aircraft, the Vulcan bomber. As such, he goes to Belgium to go through NATO's nuclear weapons course. It's funny, the RAF's security was a lot more...casual when it came to nukes than the USAF. USAF has all kinds of doubly redundant codes, two keys per arming system and for the launch system on planes. RAF Vulcans have...a bicycle lock. Yup, it's a four-digit padlock that prevents Blue Steel from wiping out civilisation below.
The Vulcans would remain over the North Sea on patrol, so that if the Soviets nuke Britain, they'd be able to retaliate. Thing is, the USSR would keep their Badger bombers on patrol in the same kind of area, so the two bomber forces often flew near enough to "escort" each other around, and wave to the flight crew on the other plane.
tl;dr - it was Grandad's job to nuke Leningrad if things went wrong.
>>29704711
You can search here for Hessian mercenaries.
>http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/de/subjects/index/sn/hetrina
My grandfather was blind in one eye from a childhood accident and was thus relegated to paper-pushing work in Scotland during WWII.
His cousin on the other hand was a badass sailor who survived Pearl Harbor and married one of the nurses from Patton's army.
My great-grandfather, who served in the USAAF in WW2 as a B-24 bombardier picture here with his brothers, who all served (except for the youngest, who would go on to serve in Korea). Of the four pictured here the first three joined the Air Force and flew in bombers in some capacity, the younger one joined the Army and participated in the Battle of the Bulge and the fight to take the bridge at Remagen, where he was wounded in the arm by shrapnel. Of the brothers who were airmen, Theodore flew in B-17s as a navigator in the Pacific and took part in bombing raids at Rabaul. Orville is my great grandfather, and as mentioned above flew in B-24s and participated in many air raids on Germany and came home without a scratch. Vernon flew in B-24s as a navigator, and was shot down twice. First time his crew was rescued by Yugo partisans who ferried them to an OSS agent who got them back to allied lines. Second time he got shot down close to Belgrade and was captured and sent to Stalag Luft 3 a few months after the Great Escape had occurred. Apparently he was involved in planning a repeat of that when the Germans started moving them as the allies moved further into Germany. He would eventually be liberated by advance units of the US 3rd Army.
I don't have any photos on me but my great-grandpa dropped in with the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment in WW2.
One of his brother's died at Bastogne and he didn't even know about until after the war, nor even knew his brother was in the same area. IIRC they found the body in 1952 or 1953 as my grandfather remembers riding in the truck as a boy with his dad to go pick him up and have a proper funeral.
My grandma has a bunch of pictures I need to get scanned, including one where my great-grandfather visited a WW1 cemetery in France and found his Uncle's grave.
>>29709260
Also have a scrapbook of my Great-grandfather's stuff and two of his dress uniforms (after the war he joined the Air Reserve and got as far as Colonel before retiring, so I have his uniform from that time and the one from WW2). Some rather interesting tidbits from the scrapbook were some pictures he took during sorties of the targets he was hitting.
>>29709282
I need to get these scanned.
>>29709290
Apparently despite occasionally seeing fighter planes in the distance, my great-grandfather never encountered enemy aircraft while on his missions. However they would get shot at pretty often by flak, which never came too close but apparently on one occasion a flak burst did come close to the nose of his plane, but he managed to escape harm.
My great grandfather fought during WW2 in Italy. He and his brother served in the 28th Maori Battalion. His brother died Jan 4th 1945 when a shell landed next to him, the shell also caused my grand grandfather to go deaf in his right ear. But he lived through the war and died a few years ago.
Romanian-American here. My great grandpappy killed Russians in ww2 with the Romanian army. He had shrapnel and a bullet still lodged in his right arm, and was deaf in one ear from an explosion.
>>29709176
As awesome as this is, my German isn't anywhere near good enough for this search.
My family has been in North America since 1627. As such have served in every military conflict on this side of the planet since the Pequot Indian War of 1636.
![IMAG0073[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IQkxR4A.jpg "IMAG0073[1].jpg")
My grandfather went into the army in 1939 and returned home only to 1947. Up to 41, together with co-workers built the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Since 1941 he fought with the Nazis. As part of the infantry and artillery units defending our country in the battles at Leningrad, Smolensk, in the final part of the Battle of Stalingrad, was the largest tank battle of the 20th century - the Battle of Kursk.
Knocks out the Nazis from Belarus, the Baltic States, he came to Krakow, and then thrown to the Russian Far East where he took part in the defeat of the Japanese army. A total of 2 had a concussion and 22 injured. He did not like war movies and often shouting UURAAAA went on the attack in his sleep. My other grandparents did not return from the war. He is an example for our whole family.
What characters are in every Russian family, as each sought to do his duty. And the memory of their lives at the genetic level. For example, all graduates of my school who had gone to war in 1941 killed - of the men returned just a physics teacher. That is why when someone from the Russian hears that some anonymous would like to have a Nazi jacket, and the other is proud of the fact that his grandfather came to the USSR to kill Russian, we have a righteous anger. Too bad that the distinguished American-Romanian grandfather anonymous author did not explain that war is bad and it is better not to poke his nose into our state. Eternal Glory and Memory of all those who fought against Nazism.
Sorry for my English.
>>29706143
That is definate meme material. Saving.
Gramps in Korea. Kumwa valley. 66th Ordnance Battalion. During the chicom push, he shuttled duece and a half trucks back and forth for three days straight. He would jump out of a loaded truck at the front right into an empty and drive it back to HQ. He'd jump into a loaded one and he said if he was lucky there was a ham sandwich and a thermos of coffee on the seat.
Can't find the individual photo but my grandpa here and four of his brothers served during WWII
>>29708390
I also had a grandfather who landed at Omaha. He never talked about the war to anyone, the only thing he told us was how bad Omaha smelled a day later whilst establishing the beachhead. He had nightmares until the night before he died. He would wake up screaming and crying, sometimes shouting names. He wouldn't let us display any of his decorations, aside from his Purple Hearts. I found out about the others after he died.
What I do know:
>He fought in Italy and France, and he was wounded in each.
>he had a Silver Star and a Bronze star, two Purple Hearts
>he was a BAR gunner
My other grandpa served, but he was at the Panama Canal the whole war.
>>29703100
My great-great-grandfather's notebook has a page with a short piece of verse written in 1913, when he was 25. He was a Polish officer in the Austro-Hungarian military and died in WW1 two years later. Here's a very shoddy non-rhyming translation from Polish:
>I have all an honest man could ask for:
>A worldview, education, youth, health,
>A family that loves me, two or three women,
>A guitar, a dog, and an officer's epaulettes.
I am four years older than he was then and I all I have is the worldview and dog.
But at least I'm still alive.
>>29712872
>Gramps in Korea.
>grandpa
the fuck old are you 7?
>>29713863
32. Gramps born 1929, Dad 1956, me 1983.
Great grandfather serving in Belgium, 1944
>>29713961
Was he the one with the BAR? I would want him in front...
>>29713851
Nice line. I´m from germany, i have a friend here who is from poland and
>two or three women
fits definitely to him.
I´m also almost 30 like you, without the woman, the dog, the guitar and the officer's epaulettes.
>But at least I'm still alive.
Then don´t give up, like me.
>>29714091
He was the guy in front of the BAR gunner
Sadly I have no photos, but my grandpa finished flight training right at the end of WW2 and he was in for a few years after.
It's shocking to see how some of your great grandparents fought in WW2. I never knew my great grandpa on my dad's side, but because my grandpa who I mentioned above was born in 1926 I can assume that my great grandpa was born around 1895-1905. I usually just say 1899 though. Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing this stuff guys, I love the old military men.
This is the oldest picture of a serving ancestor. Probably from around 1860. Don´t know who exactly, but it´s from my mothers side.
He served in the "Badisches Leib-Grenadier-Regiment Nr.109" from Karlsruhe in Baden.
>>29714546
Gelbfüßler
>>29714661
:-)
Local Patriotic clashes are very common in germany. Especially in states that were formed by the allies after the war out of different states.
My state, Hesse they reunited (splited by inheritance in 1567) but we people from south hesse have not much in common with the people from north Hesse. We feel more close to Baden or Bayern. The Main is a big parting line in germany, especially for mentality.
>>29708764
>A fucking Bike lock was all it took to prevent a nuclear holocaust
>A. Fucking. Bike. Lock.
>mfw
![20160424_015843[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/i4QdtQj.jpg "20160424_015843[1].jpg")
All I know is, he was British and he's on a horse, so probably in the cavalry, but seeing as they dismounted the cavalry after working out it was pointless in trench warfare, I guess he became infantry, is anyone a WW1 military British expert?
>>29715089
fuck, it came out sideways
![20160424_020509[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BrOdvyE.jpg "20160424_020509[1].jpg")
>>29715089
that's better
>>29710708
Commonwealth here (Puerto Rico). Grandfather fought as a paratrooper (82nd Airborne Division, 3rd Batallion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment) and partook in a civil war in the Dominican Republic (Operation Power Pack) as well as combat operations in Vietnam (Blessings and glory to those who have fought against Communism ITT). Never met him as he was murdered at his early forties by home invaders. My Uncle currently owns the field manuals, medals, while having his uniform photo in his work office, so I don't have anything on me. I only learned about him through photos of his civvy self and through stories from my mother, uncle and grandmother (Unfortunately, he never talked about his experiences and suffered PTSD from 'Nam. He was /k/ as fuck though, and full on vaquero). They say I am a splitting image of him as well as his attitude and spirit. His stories and influence rekindled my desires to join as an officer. Planning on carrying his legacy and reestablishing the military culture in my family that was lost for three whole generations. Wish me luck
>>29710708
Oops, didn't mean to mention you.
>>29715253
>Never met him as he was murdered at his early forties by home invaders.
Like him, who also fought against Communism/Bolshevism.
>>29713851
you'll be dead within the next 103 years anyway tho
>>29705754
When men were men :/
>>29703100
No pics here, they're at my parent's place.
My grandfather remains the only family member in the US Military. He signed up January 1945 by fudging his age a bit (moved from China to the US a few years earlier). He was also a manlet so they trained to drive a Hellcat tank destroyer. By the time he graduated the war in Europe was winding down so his unit became part of the buildup for the invasion of Japan. The bombs thankfully avoided that. Grandpa was retrained as an MP for Japan's occupation and served two tours there. Why a 5'2" 120lb asian became a cop I'll never truly know (though giving a Chinaman authority over Japs was probably payback). He was honorably discharged, married my Grandmother, moved back to LA and ran the family laundry till he died. I never met Grandpa, but I named my son after him.
He somehow brought back a Walther PPK (he probably got it from a GI that fought in Europe). It's a 1934 RZM marked model and it's our family's first gun. My father says he used to shoot it into the ground behind the laundry on July 4 and New Year's.
