What theatre of WW2 did one of your ancestors fight in and on which side?
Great Grandpa in the Pacific.
Then a few distant relatives fought for Ze Germans.
>>29857901
None. Grandpa did "peacekeeping" in France after the war.
>>29857901
my great grandparents were ukrainian, so USSR.
Got meningitis on the boat over and was sent home.
>>29857901
245 Confirmed kills.
Eastern Front. Wheremacht.
AMA reddi.t
My great grandfather was in the Rangers and got a Bronze Star on D-Day. As seems to be the theme with such things, he refused to say how he got it, only telling my great grandmother.
great grandpa died in stalingrad, great grandma was widdowed with 2 kids and moved to america. she died last year. She was great.
>grandfather served in Scotland pushing paper thanks to an eye injury earlier in life
>his cousin was in the Navy at Pearl Harbor, but survived
>great uncle on other side died in France
All Americans.
Grandfather-in-law was a 1917 gunner in the Pacific. Landed on a few islands.
I have no relatives who fought in WWII. My parents were too young (Mom wasn't born until after the war) and my Grandparents were too old.
>>29857901
Poland, all fronts apart pacific.
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Nobody cares.
>>29857901
Grandpa on my Moms side was a master machinist and assigned to an aircraft carrier in the pacific. it was his job to "keep the leaking boat floating and the swiss cheese fighters flying"
Grandpa on my Dads side worked for the British Empire tracking down Axis sympathizers and spy rings in colonial Ceylon that were helping the Germans and Japs fuel up subs along with supplying them with intel.
grand uncles fought for both the Americans and the British one staying in till the end of Korea.
>>29858000
>What theatre of WW2 did one of your ancestors fight in and on which side?
read the OP
France
Died of cancer shortly after occupation started
You'll never be so patriotic that you fight the krauts as you die of cancer
>>29858036
Haha what a bitch
>>29857901
I have a second cousin KIA in vietnam.
One of my grandfather's served on a destroyer in ww2
My other grandfather was a tailbomber in ww2 and went on to help design those proximity bombs that they drop on runways that explode when a plane gets near so they crater the runway and take down a plane.
I had a great uncle that was a tank gunner in Operation desert fox.
And I'm related to Robert E. Lee
>Family leaves France during revolution
>Comes back, gets almost wiped out trying to defend it through both world wars...
Only reason my branch survived was because my Grandfather was too young to fight during WW2. He instead had to survive through the fucking occupation of Paris. You can still see the mental/emotional scars it left him with.
>>29858115
...And I'm related to Robert E. Lee
>shit that never happened
>>29857901
Great-grandpa flew B-17s over germany
Other great-grandpa was a navy doctor in the pacific
Never met em so no stories
>>29857901
On fathers side grandfather and his brother fought in SS Handzar. On mothers side in NDH Home guard.
>>29858149
Oh yes collaborating with the Germans and then pretending you fought them the whole time when the allies show up, very exhausting
>>29858149
You should check for "emotional" scars in his prostate too.
>>29857901
Dad
1980's , 1990's
Belgian army
Congo " peacekeeping" , nearly got captured and castrated
Kosovo
Granddad dad
ww2
French army colonial forces
Southern Italia
Northern Africa
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And what did you do? Acting like what your ancestors did makes you special. Paaaaathetic.
Maternal Grandfather - Navy - Pacific
Maternal Great Uncle - USMC - Pacific
Maternal Great Uncle - Army - Europe
Paternal Grandfather - Army - Europe
3 Paternal Great Uncles - Army - Europe
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k thnx
>>29858212
>the entire premise of the thread is creating discussion on what /k/'s ancestors did in ww2
>you decide to sperg out like the little aspie you are
please kill yourself
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Food, tobacco, coal and clothing shortages, German propaganda played everywhere. Shit blowing up all over the place. Get caught outside between 21:00 and 05:00 and you're dead.
Great place to be as a kid.
Not.
>>29858226
Nope. The real premise of the thread is padding yourself with "muh great gramps was in teh SS" "muh heritage" cool-points cringe shit.
Don't lie to yourself.
>>29857901
great uncles fought on both fronts both on allies another one didn't really fight he just sent home shit
>>29858212
>>29858187 ( me )
Squad leader mechanized infantry
Pretty hard to become one when you are a shit skin like me
>>29858240
That was my first post in the thread, I just saw your reply and felt the need to remind you that you're autistic and your parents would appreciate it in the long run if you killed yourself.
>>29858226
It's probably edgemaster 14yo op who started the thread just to shitpost in it. Don't bother.
WW2- Grandparents lived in portugal during ww2, working the peasant farms in the middle of nowhere. Probably didnt hear about the war till the end.
WW1- Greatgradparents in portugal, goverment horse pulled wagons come to take men of age away. Some are never seen again. Mail service if it existed took 6 months to get a letter home.
>>29858259
yeah fuck the OP
>>29857901
Didn't fight, was a camp guard on the Isle of Man. The rest were farmers who were needed to feed the island.
>>29857901
nobody I'm related to actually fought however my step grandpa folded parachutes and my great great grandpa happened to be prime minister of Britain at the time
>>29858327
Seems like the only true post in this thread
Grandfather served on a carrier repairing fighters, U.S Navy.
>>29857901
Great grandfather was with Poland against Nazi scum
>>29857901
Great-grandfather was in WW1 on the Western Front.
>>29858376
WW2 only. Read the OP, you retard.
>>29858396
Is it really necessary to sperg out at anon for that?
>>29858396
whats the difference? a nazi is still a nazi
my great uncle, Frank, enlisted at 17 in the navy and participated in the pacific. At the end of the war, he got a trophy rifle, which i have now. It has the family name printed on like when the navy processed it back in the day, i assume. It's a japanese type 1, carcano hybrid italian contract rifle in 6.5mm
>>29858405
I made this thread i do what i wan
>One great grandfather firebombed Dresded
>His Nephew stormed the beaches with the Northumbrian infantry
>Great Uncle on other side fought through France with the Black Watch
>My grandfather joined the fleet of little ships to Dunkirk having been regular navy then merchant navy
Family has a solid history of fighting fuckers, and now I have left the UK and went go to the US to join the USAF
>>29858447
no I made this thread, delete that message
>>29857901
Maternal Grandfather Part of the logistic train of the army in western europe. flight engineer on a skytrains full of jerry cans to patton army. Before that he built more than a few ships for the cause in seattle shipyards.
Paternal Grandfather Crewman on a destroyer in the pacfic.
His brother-in law (my great uncle) Kit Carson the 3rd last of his name survived butan and the march. Survived years in a camp in japan. Had a wall fall on him between when the A bombs fell and US troops occupied
Paternal Grandfather - Canadian Army (Strathcona's), fought in Italy and the Netherlands. His tank got hit by an AT gun, bailed after the first hit, and the second hit knocked him into a coma until the end of the war.
Maternal Grandfather - Some older schoolteacher in the Philippines where the Japs didn't really go. Apparently the Japs never really left the cities.
>>29857901
Balkans, grand daddy was a partisan and rekt German paratroopers
Paternal Grandfather was a Rifleman towards the end of the war in the German Army
>>29858212
Well my grandpa was a mechanic onboard a light carrier. He and his buddies had to chase down rolling bombs and tie them down during Typhoon Cobra.
>>29858396
Is anyone gonna comment on how huge that fucking cat is?!
>>29859642
No, they've seen your mother.
maternal grandfather
Jap camp
maternal grandmother
distributed newspapers for the resistance
paternal grandmother and grandfather
Jap camp
I doubt that any of my ancestors fought in WWII considering how fast The Netherlands surrendered in WWII.
>>29857901
Pacific, My Grandpa on my Moms side served aboard the USS Washington BB-56.
>>29858000
Nice fucking rips
My grandfather was one of the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc.
>>29857901
Both grandpas and a great-uncle fought in the US Army on the Western Front
>one was a B17 bombardier out of Italy late war
>one was an Auschwitz liberator and part of the Occupation Army post-war
>great-uncle got shot in the fucking face and survived (without noticeable mental impairment) at Normandy, recovered for 4 months in England, then fought in Holland. Lived to be 87 and died trying to top a tree in his yard (we are unsure if he fell to his death or had a heart attack which caused him to fall).
Maternal Grandpa- Too young for WW2, was in Korea
Paternal Grandfather- Was AA gunner and armorer in the Pacific. Shot down a Jap Zero while on the way to a little island called President's island. Hopped around the Pacific for a bit. Wasn't in a line unit but saw some shit that he won't talk about. Got sent home cause his legs got cut up by a daisy cutter.
Great uncle (aircraft mechanic) almost got shot after getting drunk and crashing an airplane in the last days of the war. Great grandfather was in the Kriegsmarine, also got drunk and because of that wasn't on his ship when it was bombed. Another great grand father died somewhere in Russia.
>>29857901
My grandfather died in the Holocaust. He fell off of a guard tower.
My Uncle was a pilot and fought for the allies. He fought in Europe but I'm not sure where in Europe, I would need to ask my cousin.
Story of my grandpappy
>in based Estonia
>fuck, it's WWII
>Only 15, stuck in horrible times already
>Germans save you from communism via boat to Germany
>Stay in displaced persons camp in Germany for a year, learn how to speak German, and study and go to school in the camp.
>Eventually make it over to America with no English knowledge
>Learn to speak English gradually
>Pick Oranges in SoCal to make a living
>"The Mexicans didn't like me at first because I was white, but we got along as soon as they saw that I worked as hard as them"
>He was 17 now
>People find out
>Shit son, you gotta go to school, you can't be working at 17
>show up to senior year of high school with poor English and very little money
>English teacher just gives you good grades on work because she feels bad for you
>Go on to work an engineering-related job until you retire
>Be old, slightly racist, and thankful for what America has given to you in life
>WhyCan'tEveryoneBeThankful.png
He's still kicking today.
Grandad was with the AAF in Europe. I think he was a gunner on a 17 but he died before I could ask him and no one else seemed to know any details.
>>29857901
My grandad was part of Operation Downfall, the planned mainland invasion of Japan. The US wasn't sure Japan would surrender, so plans were in place and with what the Japs were doing for coastal defense, It would have been D-Day x2. Our family line would likely have stopped right then and there, as he was a radio operator on 1st wave of LST landing craft.
He used to tell us that he was at sea, on the way to Japan with a huge force of LSTs and no air cover, when the 2nd bomb was dropped. I looked into it and there aren't any records of Downfall actually going into action like that.... but......
after he died, we got his letters. his mom (my ggm) had kept every letter he ever wrote her. anyway, we read them, and even in the letters he talked about a "secret operation" he was part of, and how he was "in the water" when the bomb dropped.
pretty cool stuff.
My nonno spent the war killing Canadians
after the war he moved to Canada
no explanation was ever given as to why. I have his knife though
>>29857901
They didn't.
They were busy working on submarines and doing chemistry for the navy depending on whether you mean my grand father or great grand father.
>>29860560
I'm excited for the day where I get to see every letter/document from my family. Sadly everything is pretty split up between people I've talked to
>>29860597
*I've never talked to. Fuck I'm drunk
Grandpa fought against gommies for Funland in the winter and continuation war.
>>29860618
What the fuck is that supposed to be?
>>29860625
A quarter pounder with cheese.
>>29860597
It was awful when we lost him, he was a solid guy, but the alzheimer took him from us years before he died, you'd look in his eyes and just knew, he wasn't there anymore. It was almost a relief when he died.
Getting to see his old service medals, his old class A uniforms, his letters from Navy to my great gram.... that was really cool, and I learned a lot about what life was like in the military back in those days.
He also was on the flag ship of the small fleet that went to china to teach the squints how to run LST s that we were giving them.
>>29860625
Quarter-pounder with cheese.
My grand father was a coxswain on a PGM gunboat in the Pacific, was part of Halsey's Typhoon mentioned in the Caine Mutiny.
Had a great uncle who was a gunnery mate on the Missouri. Both have left port for the last time.
>>29860637
Alzheimer fucking sucks. Gotta make sure I destroy my body before that happens.
>>29860637
The worst thing is the regrett of not asking them more questions before they weren't able to answer them. Old people are so interesting.
Grandfather fought as a partisan in Lithuania. Killed Nazis and Soviets alike. Grew up to stories of his ambushes and his hatred of socialism and communism.
Other Grandfather served in some armored division, asked him about the war and he said I wouldn't like hearing about how to get one of your buddies out a tank after it gets hit.
Master Sergeant William Hedgepath. Bronze star, Purple Heart. Walked almost all the way across occupied France only to get shot above the heart by a fucking fifty cal in friendly fire after wind direction changed in a smokescreen. Thought he was killed in action for close to a year. Dead man came walking home one day. Didn't talk much about the war. Reenlisted for Korea. Killed many nazis and koreans. Retired after 22 years.
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British Army Grandfather, participated in the Dunkirk evacuations before injury put him out of commission.
German Military Grandfather, unknown what service he was a part of, most likely Navy or Air Force since he was captured earlier on in the war in Britain.
My grandpa served in the US Navy Pacific Fleet on the USS Missouri. He was on shore leave getting shitfaced in Tokyo when they signed the instrument of surrender since only officers, officials and dignitaries were allowed onboard. Pretty badass. Suck it Tojo.
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>>29858240
Bragging time?
My grandfather had a X fuel ration sticker for his car.
>>29858212
>>29858000
>Being this completely utterly retarded and insecure
>>29862460
>Bragging time?
My grandfather has diplomas and medal with Mannerheims signature.
>>29862729
>Being this asstorn
lol shuddap you're probably one of those "my grandfather was in the SS pls like and subscribe to my Youtube channel" attention whore that /k/ needs less of in every WWII threads.
kthnxbai
>>29862777
See? Trips are always on my side. Don't mess with trips.
>>29862777
Not a single person in my family served, you're just too stupid to read the OP and realize the whole point of the thread is sharing history. Holy shit
>>29862820
>Not a single person in my family served
Wowo your family is a loser. No wonder why you have weak genes. I can feel your weakness in your very writing.
>>29862777
This is why I'm not donating my body to science.
>>29862862
This wonderful volunteer is still alive, if you're wondering.
>>29858165
Did they kill any S*rbs?
Grandpa was a Seabee stationed in Australia.
>>29857901
Some fought for the Brits, some others for the Nazis.
Mostly in Europe, Africa, and Asia (not Japan though- more like India/SE Asia)
Ones who aligned with the Nazis fought mostly in attacks against the British in India, thought it would get us independence.
>>29857901
My grandfather had 2 brothers in the Norwegian merchant fleet, only one made it home though. Don't know the circumstances sadly
>>29857901
Grandfather, Europe, Infantry
Great Grandfather, Europe, Naval Gunner
China, China
>>29857901
Grandfather in North Africa for the British.
Got a confirmed kill on an aircraft with a 6-pounder
Went to Grandpa's shitty house when I was 7 or 8. Had all these fucking beer steins. I thought they were ugly as shit. Don't go to house often it was far away... Came back for funeral. War record was eulogized. Fucking Gramps was in it for 5 years. Second wave of normandy and shit. Look at shitload of ornate beer mugs. Fucking War Booty
>>29857901
Fought for the Jew in ww2
Old man was a conscript when Poland transitioned from Gommie to Democracy from 89-91-ish, i went through some of his military photos before and they were labeled 90/91
As far as my grandfathers and great grandfathers are concerned, i have no idea they passed right after i was born but can assume they all had some sort of military experience since Poland was in a complete state of war in 39-45 then conscription up until the 2000's
Sidenote, there is a memorial and statue in my hometown of a officer with my last name who died during the Polish-Ukrainian War, who knows
Paternal grandfather: North Africa/Italy, RAF, Rhodesian Squadron
Maternal Grandfather: Holland, Dutch civilian. Spent war innacamp for political dissidence. Liberated by US Army.
Maternal Grandmother: Holland, Dutch Resistance. Smuggled contraband between groups.
My ancestors were all Allied civilians at the time.
>>29857901
Non I am a spic and spics rather kill other spics.though my grandfather was a cristero and his older brother on the side of Carranza
>>29857901
Paternal grandfather served in Chiang's army. Killed Japs in WWII and Commies in the Chinese Civil War. Had a great uncle who served in Mao's army in Best Korea; he was like 1 of 3 survivors of his unit.
Great-Uncle was on a Fletcher DD in the pacific and Great-grandpa was on the Italian front. 133rd infantry.
My grandfather diffused underwater bombs in Sicily for the axis
>>29857901
As far as direct lineage goes, none. My dad's parents were young children and my mothers parents were baby boomers.
PLENTY of military service in my family, though. Dad was an infantryman in the first gulf war but didn't get to go to the middle east. Grandpa was in army intelligence in the 50s. Great Grandpa was an infantryman in WWI, he had PTSD from the war and wouldn't talk about it, yet he didn't get injured once. GGG Grandfather was an officer in the american civil war, and we still have his revolver in the family. I'm shipping for air force basic training this june, I'm going open electronics.
>>29857901
On my fathers side my grandfather fought in the pacific
>Guadalcanal
>Iwo Jima
>Palau
>Okinawa
I don't know what other battles he fought in.
He also carried a Japanese bible that he picked off a jap sniper in Guadalcanal until the day he died.
He never explained why
My grandfather on my mother's side was stationed in Panama for the entire war.
He was in the Army Air Corps.
My great uncle on my mom's side was on a tank in Europe. He helped to liberate a prison camp or something, nobody knows all the details, because he died during the Korean war.
My family has a pretty huge military history going back to the American Revolution, I can talk about some more if anyone cares, post some pictures too.
(pic kinda related its my great great grandfather who fought in the American Civil War.)
>>29857901
1. Great granddad. Died somewhere in the Eastern front in 1941 or 1942. Not even know where, how and when. Soviet army.
2. Brother of my grandma. Fought in both Winter and Great Patriotic wars. He was in an artillery crew before being wounded, then spent 1 months in hospital, then 2 months in a training camp for paratroopers, then went back to the front in Romania and Hungary. He even saw the Romanian king, Michael the First.
>Great grandfather on dad's side was in the Austrian army, got anshlussed
>Becamr panzergrenadier in the Wermacht, deployed to Poland, France, Africa and Russia
>Promoted to Major by the middle of the war
>operating in the Leningrad area with a mixed German-Finnish unit
>captured, tortured, eventually released after the war
>went home and was promptly thrown in prison by the Americans
>let him out because he wasn't a Nazi Party member
>Great grandfather on mom's side was an engineer from Gadansk in Poland
>when the Germans came he began building bombs for the Polish resistance movement
>helped blow up railroads, built IEDs, helped sabotage German vehicles, etc.
>>29858231
sounds worse than Poland
>>29857901
I had a grandfather who survived a Japanese POW camp and hated asians until the day he died. Sadly he died before I was born, so the only info I have about him came from my mother.
None but a lot of people that are close to me were directly involved with the khmer Rouge or served as soldiers for cambodia.
My stepfather tells me he shot aks and m16 and can clean both of them head to toe. A good family friend of mine has served but when questioned switches the subject. Real humble guy so I respect him. Another guy is your steriotypical looking triad looking Asian, got drunk with him one time and he told me some deep khmer rough shit
Cambodians with bhuudist temple tattoos on most of their chest and back toted guns
>>29857901
Granddad accidentally shot himself in the ribcage with a shotgun miles away from a hospital in a rural area and somehow survived
However he was unfit for service because of this
Other grandfather was too young to serve, but a great-uncle was part of the Japanese occupation after the war.
Grandpa was an anti fascist and was put in jail and sent to a work champ in Germany than he died under allied bombs
>>29857901
Grandpa got to serve for exactly one week on a submarine before the war ended.
He was not happy about this. Got to do his time as a pilot in Korea though.
great grandpa never really talked about it, but he was hungarian army, so I'm assuming he was removing pizza and shit.
of course, the honeymoon didn't last long.
he ended up in a german camp and (somehow) managed to escape on a hay cart, his wife, brother, and brothers son in tow.
then he found his way to america and made a life here.
one day I hope to be as much of a goddamn glorious man as he was.
>>29857901
my roomies great grandfather was a officer at oskarsborg fortress when they sank Blucher. my relatives did some smuggling of jews and resistance personnel over to Sweden but nothing to badass. one of my classmates great grandfather fought for the nazi viking SS.
>>29857901
None of my grandparents fought. Both my grandfathers were a few years too young for the draft in 1940 and we only fought the German invaders for five days anyway.
My mothers father joined the Resistance during the occupation and did something involving radio transmissions. I don't know any details, he never talked about it and he died 15 years ago so I can't ask.
I know a lot more about the experiences of my fathers father as I interviewed him about it a few months ago just before he turned 92.
His is a pretty interesting story actually, I'll write it up in a separate post.
>>29866654
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My grandfather worked at the Amsterdam office of Royal Shell in 1940, which will become relevant later on, where he helped a platoon of British Royal Engineers when they came to blow up the stores of bunker fuel to deny it to the Krauts.
With no oil left in stock and nothing new coming in the office pretty much closed down and he got a new job at a grocery store in the Jewish neighbourhood. Obviously business didn't go so well once the razzias started and all the customers got deported.
Then in autumn of 1943 he got drafted for the Arbeitseinsats and was put to work in the Daimler-Benz factory in Stuttgart where engines for tanks and submarines were produced.
Because he'd worked for Shell they thought he had technical training and he was assigned to the QA lab. That was pretty lucky as preparing the production samples for the engineers was a lot lighter work than getting sent to the assembly line!
Daimler didn't house its workers in camps either but in pensions in Stuttgart amidst normal German civilians. Foreign workers were issued the same food stamps as German employees and they even had weekends and holidays off.
About halfway through 1944 the factory was bombed pretty intensively. My grandfather told me that on the first day the man next to him was cut in half by shrapnel as they were running to the air raid shelters outside.
With the factory a mess Daimler split up production across several sites, which when combined with the state of German infrastructure meant that the QA department had little to do.
An other Dutchman there was an electrician who had worked on hydro-electric dams in Austria earlier in the war. With the Daimler plant practically shut down, my granddad and him were reassigned back there.
Once in Austria it turned out they weren't needed at the dams and my granddad was reassigned again. This time as a grocery store clerk to help a woman whose husband got sent to the Eastern Front.
>>29857901
great gramps in Pacific theatre for Bongland.
fought in Burma.
Great Grandmother was a nurse in that theatre also, she never forgave the japs for the stuff they did
>>29866706
(cont)
And there he stayed until the end of the war. Even when the woman and her family who owned the place fled when the Americans approached.
Apparently the GI's who got quartered in with him were rather surprised to find a Dutch forced labourer manning a well stocked grocery store.
Fun fact: the name of that Austrian town was Braunau-am-Inn, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.
>>29857901
My great grandfather was amongst the many Greeks who fought of he Italians and then invaded Italy.
Fought against the Germans hut when it became clear that wasnt working he went back home burnt his uniform stashed his gun for later.
Great uncle clarence was a navigator on a b17, shot down somewhere over east germany. POW for 8 months.
My paternal great great grandfather was an American, and as an officer he carried a Colt 1911 chambered in .38 Super. The rest of the story is irrelevant since it doesn't get better than that. I don't remember what he did in World War 2 but I am pretty sure he was on the Americans side.
My maternal great-great grandfather was full-blooded Sicilian and so was his wife. He got here in 1910 and had 10 kids in 18 years. I think like 3 of his children (my great uncles) served, with one of them going to get his shit fucked up hard by a grenade on D-Day. He lived but his back was more scar than not.
The other two served in Italy. They were very useful as they were full-blooded Italians who were fluent in the language. My mom says they both made officer in the pre-war period because they were able to read and write. Neither of them made it home, and their bones lie in mainland Italy.
My great great grandfather left his country to have two of his children die fighting it in a war.
War is hell gentlemen, and the only good fascist is a dead fascist.
My paternal grandmother's uncle was in the Pacific theater. Served in the Phillipines.
Bataan Death March.
He was going to be sent back to Japan for slave labor but since the ship was unmarked it was torpedo'd by an American sub.
She's spent decades trying to posthumously get him medals for going through that hell only to be killed by friendly fire.
I'm gonna go grab some more beer before I start losing it.
Maternal Grandfather- Artillery man in Korea
Paternal Grandfather- Air Force in Vietnam, didnt do much
Paternal Great Great Uncle- Marine in the Pacific, Saipan and Iwo Jima
Another Paternal Great Great Uncle- Army in Europe, pretty much every front from North Africa to Germany, jumped into Normandy and won the DSC for clearing a Chateau with one other guy
Paternal Great Uncle- Marine in Vietnam, wounded twice, probably killed a lot of gooks
Maternal Great Uncle- Navy in the Pacific, was at Pearl Harbor
All of my Maternal Grandfather's brothers served, dont know much about them except they were all in Korea with the exception of the one who was Navy and at Pearl Harbor
Ancestor of mine in the 1800s was captured and tortured to death by Native Americans on some expedition
My dad told me "always carry a knife because a knife can't jam."
I learned at age 25 that he didn't say this for fun. He said it because his shotgun had a malfunction and he had to stab a man to death. My dad is an insanely stoic man who won't ever show emotion but that day I saw my dad do the 1000 yard stare. I saw the PTSD my dad never admitted to having. I saw a man broken by war but too strong to let it affect his family.
I always fucking carry a knife.
>>29866804
What conflict was he in or was it like some crazy home defense thing
British SAS, apparently get did some cool shit, got some badges around too
>>29866764
Great uncle was also in the Bataan Death March (Dad's uncle), I think was part of the Filipino armed forces (whatever they were called).
From what I understand, when he got back (he died a few years before I was born) he would eat every goddamn grain of rice off his plate/bowl, and he would tell people with cupped hands "this is how much rice we'd get each day."
I think some of his other siblings may have been in the war, buuut they're all dead now, so odds of me discovering the whole truth is slim, since my family never really talked about WWII in the Philippines.
>>29857901
Mother's great uncle: served on a BB in the Pacific. Fire control. Lost friends at Pearl Harbor and continued to blame FDR til he died.
Father's uncle: defended India from nips, I guess. He didn't speak much English.
>>29857901
A few in wermacht, a few in yugo partisans (they werent commies), some of which died in russia.
In ww1 I had them fighting for austro-hungarian empire on all fronts. One of them was captured by ruskies and was forced to build the trans siberian railway. He then managed to escape and came home after many months of walking trough the whole russia and east europe. Sad.
great grandfather lost his leg while serving in the red army
Great Grandad, was Hungarian but joined Germans because he thought they'd win. Got sniped in the leg by a Russian in Norway. Americans captured him in hospital and made him serve food to Goebbels and Goring. Stowed away on red Cross ship and became Australian.
grandfather was a RN radio operator at Dunkirk. Then served on various ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
During Normandy he was attached to troops landing at Juno so he could request naval artillery fire.
>>29860146
Bullshit detected, Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians.
Grandpa, Italian army, 3rd Division "Julia" (alpine troops). He was was sent to the Soviet Union with the expeditionary corps, southern front. Everything went well until the winter came. They all had to go back on foot, knee deep in snow.
I still wonder how the hell he made it out of there in one piece.
>>29866403
>he was hungarian army, so I'm assuming he was removing pizza and shit.
Italy and Hungary were allies in WW2. Good thing your great-gramps can't read your post, he'd be ashamed of you.
>>29858000
Holy moly
Germany, II SS Panzercorp, paternal great-grandfather.
Another one of my great-grandfathers was a Wehrmacht Grunt.
>>29857901
Grand father A flew a p47 in Europe.
Grand father b was a desk jockey in the pacific. He was training to be a tank destroyer gunner until they found out he could type.
Great grandfather fought in the First Estonian Republic Army, grandfather fought in the wermacht. I am pretty sure some relative was in the Red army as well during ww2.
>>29867393
Also mostly all my male relatives have been in the army because we have mandatory 9 months service time after you turn 18.
>>29857901
My grandpa served on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific as part of the navigational staff.
My great-uncle also was in the Pacific participating in the island-hopping campaign.
Another one of my great uncles fought for the US in the Italian campaign.
Not sure if it counts, but my great-grandfather was a fire-fighter during the London Blitz.
Also I probably have some distant relatives who fought for the Soviets, but half my family fled the old country when things went south in 1917 and lost all contact with the remaining family members so there's no way of knowing.
>>29857901
grand pa served in 2nd New Zealand Division
no other info
>>29867350
Also had a great uncle who was a sbmariner then was transferred to help reverse engineer captured German u boats. Went on to open the first cable company in his state. Went into randomly buying hilltops in the middle of nowhere so people thought he was crazy. Went on to sell said hilltops for 20 times what he paid for them to cell companies.
Died an 8 figure fortune dude.
>>29857901
German officer in ww2, we still don't know what role in what branch he played though
>>29857901
Pacific Theater, fighter pilot. USA!
>>29857901
Grandfather fought in First Polish Army after getting to front in supplies transport underneath potatoe sacks with his brother. Got medals for Great Patriotic War and Capture of Berlin.
>>29857901
Great-Granddad was a marine, fought in the Pacific Theater.
Grandfather was enlisted in the US Navy, and fought against the Vichy French in North Africa on the USS Chevalier doing convoy escort duty, and in the Pacific Theater against Japan. After the war he was a war correspondent in South Korea and a reporter in Japan.
Apparently he saw some really traumatizing stuff (Something about a crew member falling overboard and drowning among other things). PTSD post WW2 is really a subject that's worth exploring more in media, like in the movie The Master.
>>29857901
German
One survived stalingrad and could flee aboth the black sea and the other one got killed at the atlantic wall by the RAF
I'm related to OP, he served in operation cock n balls, has taken many cocks in his ass and is very distinguished.
>>29857901
My Father family is from Alsace, and alway did military job, let's say it was kinda complicated during WW2...
GrandPa first brother serve in French Army during 1940, WIA, take prisonner, when he was released Gestapo wait for him at the gate of the prisonner camp and forced him to join German Army, he served in East Front during all the war, and had the luck to be able to surrender to 'Murican in 1945.
Grandpa second brother served in French Army in 1940, then join DeGaulle and continue to fight, did African front, then Italian one, he fight in Monte Cassino, then south debarquement in France, battle of Alsace, and Germany.
GrandPa was forced to work in Germany because of Service du Travail Obligatoire, was send to Dachau for act of resistance ( apparently German didn't like when someone fucked up their torpedo ), and rescue by US troops.
GrandPa little brother lied on his age in 1944, and join French Army at 16, he fight in Alsace, then Germany, then goes in Indochina, and die there.
On my mother family, only my GrandPa Father serve in 1940, and die there.
>>29857901
Mom dad: Navy helmsman, first civilian (north Adriatic, Croatia) then Military, on Carabiniere D551, was on the rescue of the Roma battleship
Mom's mother: civilian
Dad's father: Aeronautic attached personnel (woodsmith) in Italian Africa. Was in English internment camp, said they let them play football. Went on to work in Africa in late '40s/50s
Dad's mother: partisan, Garibaldi brigades.
Grandpas cousin joined Wehrmacht and survived Stalingrad.
Some relative of my grandma was a Wellington crewman in Britain.
>>29857901
Great Grandfather got conscripted into the Red Army after they occupied our country. Died during Battle of Berlin, got fucked up by shrapnel.
Father's side great grandpa was a partisan, but I hardly know anything about him.
>>29857901
Great grandfather joined Australian army early on in ww2 captured by japanese in 1942 in singapore and spent the next 3 years in changi POW camp (i have his diary from the camp). Grandfather was 17 and lied about his age and joined up around the time great grandfather was captured and fought in new guinea as a mortarman.
>>29858433
I expect to see this in a future milsurp thread
>>29858000
Go back to /b/
>>29857901
WW2 had a great grandpa that was a frogman. He did an operation in the north pole. Something with the Russians storing weapons their. It was some top secret shit at the time.
Had another set of grandparents that where simple infantry for the Germans, as my ancestry starts from Germany.
>great grandfather (dad's side) and his two brothers in 5th SS Panzer Divison Wiking.
>dads's entire family except him are from norway
>mum's great grandfather, his cousin and his cousins brother in what became the Royal Marines after the war
>raids in france and shit
Surprisingly they all survived the war, met each other after my mum and dad met and got along brilliantly. They were good friends right up until they died, all 6 of them.
Dad's side vets swear down the Holocaust never happened on the scale they say it did, they remained absolutely adamant that auschwitz only held a few thousand and that it was the only death camp. Whether I believe them or not is an entirely different story.
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>>29857901
Paternal Grandfather, Irish Guards, Guards Armoured Div, Northwest Europe.
Maternal Grandfather, Royal Artillery, Tunisia & Italy.
Great Uncle, 2nd battalion SAS, Pretty much everywhere.
>>29870364
that's pretty fucking neat man.
Every story of veterans from opposing sides meeting each other I hear they always get along great. The only exception I know of was some pacific theater vets, a lot of americans from that theater still hate zips.
>>29870364
There was no extermination camps. Auschwitz only had a second crematorium built because they had a breakout of TB and they had to burn the corpses to stop further spreading. The idea that they were killing prisoners at the rate that history expects us to believe is laughable.
>>29857901
>What theatre of WW2 did one of your ancestors fight in and on which side?
>tfw ethnically italian
None, they were peasants that farmed tobacco, beans, rice and corn in my shitty third world country.
Maybe I had some distant relative there because I have a variation of the Mussolini surname.
Great grandpa in the belgian army, was made a POW then released quickly.
Also a great uncle who was pilot in the luftwaffe on the eastern front
>>29857901
Grandpa is a Polak, born too late to fight, but he was in a german camp with most of his family when he was like 5 y.o. The germans let his family go to work at a farm nearby, don't know much more than that.
great uncle
us army air corps b24 waist gun
European theater, stationed in England.
Bombing campaigns over Germany
>>29857901
>tw grandpa was busy executing commies
>>29860618
What regiment? My great grandfather was in JP/2 during the latter part of the Continuation War, after his SS Service, and he was in JR/9 during the winter war
>>29858327
you are Churchill's great great grandson?
