Has anyone in your family fought in any important Wars?
Lest we forget...
My son's dad fought in the war on terrorism.
War of Croatian independence in the 90's. Helped the Bosniaks and also fought them. Very confusing. Oh and my great-grandfather fought in WW1 against sub human Russians.
Race war
>>68762049
>implying that it will ever happen
Many kek's.
>>68761872
Anglo executioner & Russky incinerator descendant reporting in
>tfw your grandfather didn't close the door at Auschwitz
All of them but none where infantry men. I don't know what that implies.
>>68761872
grandpa killed japs and koreans
two uncles killed gooks
basically say they don't feel good about it, but wouldn't do anything differently.
>>68761872
Grandfather was a machine gunner in WWII. Got to Corporal rank then was deranked later.
Took part in the invasions of Luzon, New Guinea, Corregidor, and maybe a few others. He's 91 now. Should I interview him before he passes?
>>68762873
>Should I interview him before he passes?
No. It's probably not something he remembers fondly.
>>68761872
my grandfather fought in Italy at WW2
Both of my Grandfathers fought in WW2.
My father was almost deployed in the Gulf War.
I was born with heart problems so I was turned down.
>>68763053
I've talked to him about it before, he's okay with talking about it. Told me funny stories about being accidentally shelled by ally artillery while they were in camp and dressing up as jap POW's to raid stashes for cigars and drinks.
Grandfather was in a tank in North Africa for most of ww2, and later survived D-Day.
Grandfather was in the Bataan Death March.
>>68761872
>WWII
>important
>>68763310
It's the only reason you're sitting all pretty at the top, faggot.
>>68761872
Every male in my family has fought in every American war.
Including my old ass.
>>68762873
Grandpappy was a resistance fighter in pampanga. Might be they met each other one time?
While his uncle was in the constabulary.
My Gpa was an English POW
He said the Germans were very sharply dressed.
>>68761872
World War 2 probably everybody else on the other side of the family grand generation was part of the insurgents. So I have this family of commie on the other side and loyalist on the other, Grandfather Marcos Loyalist Korean War.
American revolutionary war (the bad side) American civil war (the good side), WW1, WW2 (Great uncle died in Italy, g-pa was a II-A farmer and named all children after generals as penance), Beirut Marine Barracks bombing.
I tore my ACL in AIT. I am such a disappointment to my family.
>>68761872
My grandfather was a flight trainer for Curtiss P-40s at the beginning of WWII, and then later flew them in the Pacific theater.
>>68761872
Half brother fought in Afghanistan, before that Great Great Grandad fought the damn yankees, thankfully we didn't take part in WW2, family was too illiterate living in the mountains to be among civilized peoples..
>>68763201
My grandfather tunnelled under the Germans and blew them up in the trenches, one time there was germans tunnelling to his side of the trench so they broke into their tunnel, shot them then went and blew up the German side as well.
Was a badass, got picked for the English rugby team as well but turned them down.
Was quite a quiet man though.
>>68761872
My paternal grandpa was a pioneer both in Winter and Continuation war. After the war there was a building boom, and using the woodworking skills he had learned in the wars, my grandpa founded a sawmill. Although I didn't know him, his story really inspires me: he started as a very poor orphan boy, but becuase of his success in business, he became one of the richest men in town. He became greatly respected too because of his charitable and trustworthy nature, and sometimes when older people hear my last name, they ask if I'm related to him. I hope to become a man like he was.
>>68761872
>be my grandpa
>serve in pacific, Guadalcanal etc
>in Philippines
>is commander of his unit
>need two to scout a hill with japs on other side
>volunteers himself
>whole point is to draw fire to figure out where they are hiding
>other guy volunteers as well
>other guy gets shot
>grandpa sees the guy that shot him and kills him
>gets shot himself 1'' from his heart
>gets sent away to medical station
>next day entire platoon gets whiped out by friendly fire
not making this shit up.
>>68761872
WW2 (America and Germany)
Spanish-American war
Indian wars (south Dakota)
US civil war
English civil war
Thirty years war
Only ones I know of
>>68761872
Me
>Afghan
Dad
>Kosovo
Granddad
>Suez Canal
Great Granddad
>WW2
So just my great granddad
>>68761872
All 4 great gpas gunned down krauts by the dozen in WW2.
Great Uncle killed a ton of Koreans but never talks about it, fucked em up real bad apparently.
Cousins and uncles that fought vietnam but dont know much about it.
>>68763400
Lt. Dan!
>>68761872
Haha all of great grandparents fought in WW2, all were conscripted
In the big one that was in all the papers
>>68763127
Tiny heart syndrome?
>>68761872
Great Grandfather was in the 292nd rifleman's in the Great Patriotic War
Well... Yes.
>>68761872
Yes the Somali civil which has been going for the last 25 years Mr leaf.. But you wouldn't know anything about would you. Syrupboi
My grandfather was a Gebirgsjäger during WWII and fought in Italy. Captured by the Americans and was released back to his family in the US after the war because he was born here.
He was also drafted in the US Army and fought in Korea.
first lebanon war
>>68763392
Why should I care?
Please tell me how I would be worse off if Germany or Russia controlled yurope
>>68761872
My great grandfather worked on the burma railway.
>>68763690
OP said important wars, silly yo ho ho.
Grandad fought against those ebil nazis in ww2.
>>68763299
Damn, has he ever talked about his experiences?
>>68761872
there were members of my family on both sides in ww2
mother's side = british = RAF, navy
father's side = german = kriegsmarine, waffen-ss
our family photo albums are a bit confusing
>>68762143
Implying West vs. Islam isn't a race war and hasn't been in the entirety of its history
My Dad was in Vietnam.
my grandfather who died before i was born was a cook in the royal navy
my other grandfather was not allowed to join up as the job he had was important for the country
>>68763550
>>Afghan
I don't mean no disrespect.
But OP said ''important wars''
>>>>Afghan
My fathers father fought first at russia, later in france.
My Mothers father and his brother was with the SS in france
>>68761872
Good chance they fought in ww1
ww2 they did not tho
>>68763690
African country's can't be in a civil war, because that's just their natural state of being
>>68761872
Great grandpa died in ww2 and immigrated his family to america
Uncle lost his leg in vietnam
I fought in afghani land
>feels good man
>>68761872
Grandpas both raped their way across Eastern Europe to Liberate Germany.
>>68761872
WW2 and the civil war, for the North lol
My maternal grandfather fought in WW2, my maternal great-grandfather fought in WW1, my Paternal grandfather was in Korea, and his ancestors fought in both the American Revolution and the Civil War.
t. Sons of the American Revolution member
Great Grandfather was a US bomber pilot in WWII
>>68763823
Read the whole post retard
These are the wars that I'm aware of:
>Boer War
>Somaliland Campaign
>WW1
>Polish-Soviet War (as a British envoy)
>WW2
>Rhodesian Bush War
And I'm currently in the process of enlisting.
Grandfather was a WWII sniper in egypt, contracted malaria and met my grandmother at the hospital (a nurse).
My great grandad narrowly survived a jap plane crashing into his supply ship (he was the captain), but the crew weren't sure if it was meant to be a kamikaze attack because the pilot showed signs of trying to eject.
He also survived hitting a friendly minefield and guided the ship back to the nearest port even with catastrophic damage and the port still being quite far away. he did other stuff also but i can't remember clearly enough.
He got a bravery award, dunno the name of it though. me and my dad were named after him.
>>68761872
Mom was a nurse in Vietnam. Grandfather was in Normandy
>>68763550
what up britbro?
>I served in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan in 2011.
you?
>>68761872
My grandfather fought in WWII in 44-45.
>>68761872
My grandfather but he never talked about it even to the familie
>>68761872
the hussite wars
My family took part in the Belkan War
My great grandfather was a german that fought in the war. He was buried anonymously, my dad says it might be because he was in the SS.
>>68761872
Great grandfather served as a rifleman in WWI, fought at Argonne. (pic related)
All four of my grandmother's brother's served as well. Her three older brother's served in the Pacific Theater in WWII and her younger brother served in Korea.
Dad was registered for the draft during Vietnam but was never called.
>>68761872
>Grandpa
>WW2
>Waffen SS
mfw
>>68763392
>Dying for the Jew
>Important
Great grandfather fought in WW1, was there on day one and lived through it all, the somme included.
Pretty based, sad I never met him.
>>68763984
Enjoy:
>army
Packing sandbags once a year for Cumbria
>navy/rm
Helping refugee boats land safely in europe
>RAF
Your office job
>>68761973
Thats you.
If you want to describe a cuck-dad then it is "my wifes son"
Fag
>>68761872
Yeah slaughtering native Europeans trying to stop the jews from genociding them. Yeah great achievement.
Great-Grand father fougth in WW2 alongisde Free France , Grand -Father figth in Algeria and Indochina .
>>68761872
All my grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought in either Finnish independence war or Winter War. I also have ancestors who fought in other wars, most notably the 30 year war.
WW2
both grandfathers
>>68764184
respect.
One great uncle in the Philippines, another great uncle in Germany, both in WW2 of course.
>>68764038
Helmed province 2011 op talisman, think you guys call it op linebacker
>>68761872
Grandfather served in the Waffen-SS, killed commies on the eastern front.
>>68764026
Which one of the 2k privates that porked her is ur daddy?
>>68764184
I served in the Marines from 09-14 as a grunt. Fuck ideology, its just about your bros on the ground. Did he have any cool stories?
Great grandfather was a chocko in papua new guinea ww2. They were called "chockos" because they were barely trained, pulled out of bars, and given piece of shit British WW1 .303s. To fight outnumbered 10:1. While Australian regular army was over in Tobruk. The Prime Minister of the time, was going to give the Japs the whole top half of Australia. My Great Grandfather defending the Japanese invasion, which was only 25km (10miles) from mainland Australia.
>>68761872
grandad was royal naxy in ww2 and my other grandad was a soviet sergeant
>>68761872
Both Grandparents fought in WW2, one on the German side as a foreign SS volunteer.
>>68761872
Grandpa was in Burma in 1944. Got malaria and was sent home after 6 weeks. Killed a bunch of gooks but he doesn't like to talk about it.
Nearly the whole generation of great-grandfathers died either in Battle of Moscow or in a shitty Rzhev assault aka the worst Sovet offensive ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mars
Few commie removers from civil war and winter war, some russian empire wars in balkans, some in swedish empire glory days etc.
>>68761872
Yeah, grandad and great uncles in WWII and Korea for US Navy and Air Force. Grandad was radar/sonar operator on a destroyer in the Pacific.
This thread disgust me
Follow your ancestors steps and enlist you pussies
>>68761872
Grandfather in World War II as a medic in Italy. He could have went back for d-day/Germany as an officer but he was tired of seeing his friends die and he was worried about his family. Could of went to med school too later on but saw better money in the oil business in Texas. He got to know the bush family sort of since they lived close by. Other grandfather lived in Hawaii while in the navy, all he did was party and enjoy life. Uncles were in Vietnam. One of them pushed out the other one out of a helicopter because the guy was too slow, that was before they even knew each other before they married into the family. Cousins fought in Afghanistan. Before them? The family history isn't that well documented and both sides live hundreds of miles away for me to verify. I probably could do the 23andme/ancestry because I think they tie you to people that have known ancestry if you match up with them. But I will never give into the genetic botnet.
Me? I was applying to West Point but had asthma so I just joined a senior military college without a ROTC contract. Really wanted to serve. Guess I'm stuck as pre-serum Steve Rogers.
Anyone here of this book? Any truth to it? Good read, though just ridiculous as to how it paints the SS as god-tier fighters
Is WW2 important enough?
>>68764306
Helmand*
>>68764469
for what war? when the govt declares war on islam ill do it no prob.
>>68761872
grandpa fought in the civil war, against the republic, then enlisted in the blue division after finding out someone was out to kill him, fought in Russia and came back, he said he had fun
>>68764469
I'm waiting for civil/race war to kick off in Europe so I can join a right wing death squad.
>>68764469
>tfw no one will take me due to minor medical bullshit
>>68764469
>enlist in military
>go sacrifice your body, sanity, and see your brothers killed
>all for a peice of sand in the middle of a desert for Israel
No thanks
>>68764555
I don't remember that name. We didn't interact much with them at our PB. Always was impressed by the brits tho, just solid guys
>>68764469
Go die for Israel, good goy.
>>68764611
Did he get to meet Franco?
>>68764469
Enlist in <government/ jewish mercinaries>
>>68761872
Grandpa was a partizan in ww2 even got medals as a hero of the party in the fight against fascism, later he started to hate communism
My Great grandfather served in the Wehrmacht as a tankist during ww2.
And my Grandmothers brother fought in both the winter war and the continuation war. (German/Finnish descendant living in cuckistan)
>>68764184
Sauce on this? Is she actually taking the dick?
>>68761872
Grandfather was a glider pilot in which ww2.
Fucking no gun cousin got the luger when our aunt passed.
I got the sweet16 and the 357 so whatever.
Great Great Great Great Grandfather and his two brothers enlisted with the Confederate Army, his two brothers died, he lost both legs to an artillery shell
Great Great (Great?) Grandfather was in the First Unified German Army after the Franco-Prussian War
Great Grandfather served as an NCO in Panama during WWII
Other Great Grandfather was a Sniper who participated in fighting in France after D-Day
Grandfather was a Green Beret in Vietnam
>>68761872
Every one between the Revolutionary War and Nam.
After that we went to school instead.
>>68764715
We trained with them in Quantico, VA, during the summer months. A bunch of them got heat rash. Rather than bitch and moan about it they got punic stone and rubbed off the rash until it started to bleed a bit. Never heard them complain about conditions.
People bitch and moan about women now trying to be in the infantry. Grunts recognize that there a bunch of men that don't even belong in there.
Much respect for you guys
>>68764832
Forgot to mention Grandfather was also in SOG operations, fighting in Laos and Cambodia
>>68761973
Underrated post
>>68761872
My (late) grandad was an electrical engineer in the RAF during WW2
>>68764469
Can't. Mental illness. They won't have me.
three distant relatives who fought in WW1. one at Gallipolli (he survived), two in France and Belgium who died
also a different guy who fought for the original IRA back in the tens/twenties
>>68761872
Started the first battle of WWI
>>68764385
That's your australian granddad, right?
>>68761872
My father and uncles fought in the Lebanese Civil War.
That's important right?
>>68764555
Shit, meant to reply to you instead of myself. Nice trips too
>>68764832
Lootenant Dan?
My Dad fought in the great Canadain war of 1999.
Landed on the beaches of Toronto only to be over run by homosexuals and SJW's.
sup guys my grandfather fought in the war
I want to join the army aswell but I can remember when I was young the doctor noticed a bit of sugar in my urine, I had a bloodtest a few years ago and they said there was nothing wrong with me. also plan on getting laser surgery for my eyes (only reason i get turned down for sure immediately if i dont afaik) and take a year to train and get certificates for better chance at acceptance, reckon its a good plan? want to join the airforce btw
paternal Grandfather was occupation duty in Germany during Korea, Maternal Grandfather was on a cruiser(?) in Vietnam. Currently enlisted with the Navy, get shipped out to boot camp June 1st, then go to sub school for SECF
>>68761872
My grandpa's two brothers died in WW2, the only reason my grandpa didn't go the front was because he was a mathematician and worked on new telemetry for artillery sights that were later used in Korea.
We know that one of his brothers died on the 4th wave of the D-day invasion about half a day after landing. My grandpa still has the letters the Army sent my Great Grandma informing her of their deaths.
The other brother died in a car accident somewhere in France after a truck rolled over.
>>68764469
I tried. They wouldn't take me on account of medical issues. ):
>>68764469
I would if I could. I can't get into /fit/ thin as fuck.
not really close, but my moms uncle fought in the winter war, he got shot twice and stepped on a mine so he lost one leg
>>68761872
2 Emu Wars and the great shitpost of 1903.
Grandpa fought for germany in Crimea ww2
>>68764715
It's route clearance, we drove in front of logistics looking out for IEDs. 99% vehicle mounted so it was an easy tour, plus we only do 6 months. And based out of Bastion/Leatherneck when not on ops.
We expected you guys too be "HOO RAH" shouting arseholes, buy every one I met was spot on.
>>68761872
My great grandfather fought for Italy in WWII.
>>68764819
anyone?>>68764184
grandpa fought germans in 1939
got captured and put in german stalag - he just walked our one day and went 400km home on foot
My granddaughter fought for the French in Nigeria. He was highly ranked.
My great great grandfsther was a tank sergeant and one day in Switzerland he was drunk driving his tank threw the woods and when he popped his head out some chucklefuck in a tree shot him. Luckily for me he was shit faced and his helmet was tilted to one side.
>>68761872
Great granddad, WWII. Probably others in that one too. Terrific stories.
>>68765030
Not quite... but from what I understand he was a badass. He actually killed two carpet baggers and buried them in his backyard.
>>68764485
My great-uncle's dad fought with the Filipino guerillas in WWII. He was with the Army at the outbreak of the war and got caught up in the shit-show that was MacArthur's "defense" of the Philippines. Anyhow, he was on the Bataan Death March and figured he was going to die if he kept going. He figured running into the jungle would probably kill him, too, but seemed like better odds than staying with the Japs. On a bend he took off with the strength he had left and dashed into the jungle and ended up getting taken in by some Filipinos. Through them he got on board with some guerilla fights and spent most of the war fighting with them. He'd tell stories about ambushing Japanese soldiers. One I remember is how they put bamboo spikes in the grassy ditches along the sides of roads, wait for a Jap patrol to get close and fire at them. Their first instinct would to be jump off the road and they'd land on the spikes. Afterwards, they'd shoot the survivors. Pretty brutal shit but the nips brought it on themselves.
Grandfather was in the kreigsmarine.Sailed on U-boats as an engineer. According to my late grandmother, his boat sunk a British submarine.
>>68764750
nah, he fought as a requete, but deserted from his unit midwar and was able to hide, but when the war ended, a friend told him that some of his old comrades were out to kill him, so he enlisted in the Blaue Division. Got his foot destroyed by a misfire and went back to Spain, then leaved to the colonies to serve as a plantation guard, married a colonial governor's daughter and came back to mainland Spain. He did meet Muñoz-Grandes, former commander of the Blaue Division
>>68763464
Did he shoot any Japs down?
>>68765179
How'd he survive the war? Didn't the commies execute most collaborators?
>>68761872
My Great Uncle fought on Omaha Beach. Got a silver bronze and two Purple Hearts during the war. Was a medic.
His name is in the NPC files of Call of Duty Big Red One. Pretty awesome. He passed away a few years ago. Rest in Peace Corporal Mancino.
We live in RI and he told me a story that he was in the landing craft and was chatting to some soldier. Turned out he lived only a few blocks away. Both ended up being best buddies after the war.
Grandpa was in katanga army during Congo crisis and in the biafra war
In the 70s and 80s he did some "work" for the South African government in Angola
>>68761872
Uncle served in the Korean War. Used to tell me stories about his squad mate falling off the front of his truck while he was going through a minefield, breaking both his legs after he drove over him. He felt bad so he reversed out of the minefield to get him to safety.
>>68761872
Grandmother was an Army nurse in Africa/Italy/India theater. Grandfather was an Army cook in the Philippines. Broke his ankle playing baseball on base and got sent home early. Great uncle was in the Marines and got captured, was a prisoner in Bataan for a long time, but survived. He's in one of the books about the death march. Other great uncle was in the Navy on a destroyer. Name started with an A, Arkansas maybe, I can't remember. Step-grandfather was an Air Force pilot in the European theater, I think he was a reconnaissance or supply pilot, I can't remember. They're all dead now. Before all of that, one of my direct descendants fought with Daniel Boone during the Revolutionary(late)/Indian Wars. He killed a famous Shawnee chief with a tomahawk after the war was over. (He asked the him whether or not he was at the battle where one of his sons was killed. The chief wasn't actually at the battle, but misunderstood him and said yes, so he chopped him up.) He got relieved of duty after that. He also knew Andrew Jackson, and testified at his adultery trial.
and my grandpa was 9-ish years old during the war. he and his friends heard rumors that a local farmer was co-operating with the nazis, so they strapped TNT to one of his cows and blew it up
One Grandpa died in Stalingrad and the other one fought on the western front
Grandmother's brother died in a tank in WWII. Uncle was a Marine in Nam, Cousin is a Green Beret fucking up the Middle East. I guess he's off to Chad now.
Great-Grandfather on Mother's side fought in the Boer War. I have a ruby ring he cut off a dead Afrikaners finger. Grandfather on Mother's side fought in WWI but didn't see Combat. He was still in basic training in England when peace was declared. Grandfather on Father's side lied about his age (he was only 16) fought in WWI (Machine Gunner) and then tried to lie about his age again the other direction in order to fight in WWII. They had better records by then and he was caught so he ended up a POW camp guard. Uncle flew B52 bombers in WWII. Great Uncle on Father's side was in WWI, survived combat only to die of Influenza on the boat on the way home.
>>68761872
Grandpa got drafted to the Flak at 17, was later made a grenadier. Never talked about it, at least to his daughter (my mom) and his grandkids.
Which tells me all I need to know I suppose. War is Hell and we are lucky to not have seen such a cataclysmic event in a long time.
>>68761872
My grandfather was a cook on a minesweeper for 2 years in WWII. Not really special but that's all I got.
>>68761973
First post best post
>>68765365
He did.
When the Americans liberated Germany my English grandfather (POW) was walking around some German town and saw a native German on a bicycle. An American Negro GI saw that my malnourished grandfather showed interest in said bike and the Negro GI pushed the native German off his bike and gave it to him.
Pretty cool.
>>68761872
Have an uncle who went to angola to kill niggers, Cuban here.
Ive had family fight the jappanese in ww2 and the first gulf war.
>>68763794
He died in the 80's. But from stories passed down in the family he ended up getting marooned at sea at one point. Probably on a Hell ship? Also he gave his eldest son his 1911 from the war and my uncle eventually sold it for nothing.
>>68761872
Gramps ww2, uncles in nam, brothers in iraq. I'll fight in ww3 but for now I'm a fisheries biologist
My great grandfather fought in WW1 for Austria-Hungary. mother tells me stories from her grandmother that the austrian's and russians didn't really want to kill each other, so they would intentionally mis-aim their artillery.
>>68765220
Yes! Route clearance haha! Dude ok. Tracking now. For the most part you guys did a great job...except until Aug 29, 2011
I'll blame the US Army on that one
>Pick related
>>68765442
I miss our fighting days Frits
>>68764173
My Great-Grandfather served in France with the Cavalry at the ripe old age of 17.
Yea, my granpa had to operate AA guns in WW2 when germany was about to take over UK
>>68761872
>fought in Wars
Good goy!
200 years of peace
I'm happy to report that my family killed many Anglos and Ivans.
>>68764914
That's good to hear, but it's more likely that we don't bitch around outsiders. Nobody in the British army would talk to each other if they didn't have bitching.
Reminds me when I told a Gurkha that they are well respected because they never complain, and he replied
>"never complain in English"
No. My direct family members were either just young enough for the war to end before they could join or just old enough to avoid the draft. Now thanks to an all volunteer military and zero military tradition in my family we don't even have to concern ourselves with it.
Grandad was too young for WWII but he was in Palestine immediately afterwards then Egypt and Libya. Mostly supply columns crossing desert. Not a great legacy helping Israel get set up and all. He was a sgt major and I'm still proud of him. Uncles were in Northern Ireland. Dad was in West Germany doing fake signals. Apparently the plan if the Russians invaded was to put up a token resistance, fall back to the Rhine and wait for the Americans.
>>68765809
>German wehrmacht masterrace
>>68765624
That isn't a Royal Engineer search team, our infantry and other capbadges are really poorly trained and I'll equipped when it comes to search
Over 500,000 civilians dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War
Made moon man proud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5QDGFuKiaw
also my uncle flew mig jet fighters in the rank of captain for the peoples republic of poland but he drank and smoked so much he ruined his throat and they couldnt understand what the fuck he was saying on the radio so they moved him to a desk job and then he started drinking full time
eventually they put him on permanent sick leave and he started drinking even more. He died of exposure completely shitfaced on a bench in front of his commieblock. I remember him as a funny stinking dude bumming money off my mother.
I guess he fought a war with himself. And lost.
>>68761973
On which side?
>>68761872
My grandfather was captured by the Russians in WW2. Was held in a POV camp for a year or so until the war ended.
Told me everything about it a few months before he passed away.
>>68761872
OK my mom's side my great grandfather in Germany was a medic in ww1. All my great uncles fought in ww2 for Germany and most died in russia, one was a pilot who was shot down over greece, another got a comfy job driving around German generals. The one that actually came back alive from Russia was in the gulag and walked back to Germany from Siberia 5 years after the war and became a judge after he came back. My grandfather I suspect was SS becasue I had nazi hunters knock on my grandmother's door 7 years after he had passed away (2009 I think). When I confronted my grandma she just said that he worked for the SS in Poland and did clerical work, but she had such a fear on her face because she knew we were getting close to the truth, I dropped the conversation tho because I'm not going to grill a 95 year old woman. My grandma and grandfather also got married at the church In heigloch (I think I spelled it right) where the hidden entrance to the German nuclear program was.
On my dad's side (palestinian) my great grandfather murdered 7 turkish soldiers after they had gang raped his neighbors daughter and the Turks hunted him down, beat him within an inch of his life, put their cigs out on his back and told him he could join the Ottoman army or get shot. He joined and a year after he was in turkey he got into a firefight after his outpost got attacked and he deserted and walked from Turkey to palestine.
My grandfather on my dad's side (again palestinian) he was a double agent for the Arab resistance who also worked for the British army. He used his access to the base to steal weapons for the resistance and after work he would assassinate British soldiers and generals. There was a raid on his town looking for him once the bits figured it out and he hid in a dry well for 16 days until the heat died down. He has a major well in my town named after him because he killed two British soldiers with a pipe for refusing his nephew a drink of water from the well.
>>68761872
Yeah, all of them. Kind of like Lt Dan's family, we got some faught in every war, 'cept ours all come back.
>>68765961
It really blew my mind how much money the US Army had compared to us. I enjoyed my time in Afghanistan. Ever wish you could go back? Life seems pretty dull compared to what we had over there. Our decisions made the difference between life and death..
>>68765892
Mostly Waffen SS men actually.
Great granddad got shot in the leg in WWI - in the Somme. Spent the rest of the war in a a field-hospital. He apparently talked about how he would like to find and thank the German who shot him for saving his life in the long run.
muh grandpappy was a ww2 vet. he invaded normandy on D-Day. RIP you are missed
>>68761872
Great uncle.
Died during ww1 close to Verdum, body never recovered.
Grand father military surgeon during WW1 and WW2
Cousin military surgeon fought in sangarsis (central africa)
myself legionnaire cant disclose.
>>68761872
Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and were taken as prisoners of war.
>>68764343
no war stories
he died when i was really young
i recall him always wearing a shirt during summer, even at +30°C in the pool
i didn't quite get it till my mother told me a few years after his death that he was afraid of showing his tattoos in public
>>68764819
Lexi Bloom
>>68761872
Let's see. 2 or 3 of my uncles were in WW2, one of them was in the...uh...OSS? That doesn't sound right. The precursor to the CIA. Anyway he saw some terrible stuff and it really traumatized him.
My dad was in Vietnam which in and of itself isn't a huge deal but 2 stories are interesting. A couple of months in he was riding in the back of a Jeep, the driver was a massive muscled up black guy. Hit a mine and it pretty much disintegrated the driver but he was so big it protected my dad. He probably got chunks of him in the shrapnel buried in his legs though. Kinda gross.
Then late in his stint there he got shot in the leg (somewhat interesting story there but I don't feel like typing it out). He was sent to Hong Kong to recover and then go home. He and his first wife weren't on good terms at the time so he paid various boatmen and drivers and hitched his way back to Vietnam and found his squad somehow. That one is verified in a letter he has from his CO chewing him out officially for it.
Pre WW2 my family was so poor they avoided service or the family farm would go under and the people at home would starve. Sounds backwards but that's my family.
>>68765719
and now you're taking muslim dick willingly.
Those that fought died, in vain sorry to say
Allah Damn Yurope
>>68764819
stoya
My grandpappi was conscripted into the Italian navy during WWII. I don't know what he did exactly and he never seems to mention it. He moved to Canada shortly after the war ended.
>>68766211
Frenchbro, I read that story about that westpointer that left US army to serve in the FFL. I also read Diary of a French Foreign Legionnaire by Simon Murray. Did you ever read that book? Great read esp when it comes to talking about French-ALgeria relations during DeGaul's rule
Had family on both sides of the war, German and United States, they came to the united states after the war
>>68761872
My grampa fought in the colonial war in Mozambique
He told me one time his unit had to transport some prisoners to the capital, but some locals helped them get away
They didn't want to get into trouble for fucking up a basic assignment, so the unit went to a local village and arrested some blacks, and then delivered them instead
Pretty funny story IMHO
great grandpa fought in ww2 and had his fingers blown off.
>>68761872
Grand-grandfather on the russian front, near the carpathian mountains, as a soldier of austria-hugary in WW1
Grandfather, in WW2 on the russian front, again, now under the italian expenditionary force there. our part of the country was under italy then.
Grandmother was a partisan and was cought and did a stint in Dachau in WW2.
>great great something fought for the crown in the revolutionary war
>fought for the confederates in the war of northern aggression
>grandpa fought for US in ww2
>>68763690
Observe, establish comprehensive books.
>>68766159
If my army career was a constant tour rotation, I'd have never left. Only time I felt I had an actual job.
I remember having to source a replacement set of mine rollers from camp leatherneck because we had no spares, I told him we are part of talisman and he said he can't give us them because I'd just told him I'm Taliban, funny dude.
>>68765825
Very true.. I did some missions in 2009 with TF444 and then lived in Lashkar Gah 2010-2011 working with Mercians / Scots units.. loads of bitching once you have spent enough time together.
>>68761872
My bloodline on my dad's side runs through the revolutionary war, the alamo, the civil war, WW2, and Vietnam
>>68761872
WW2 my grandfather was a footsoldier of the Wehrmacht while my other grandfather and his four brothers were US riflemen in WW2
All of my male great grandfathers/ great uncles fought in WW2 for the red Army. On my dad's side we had his grandfather who is MIA defending Moscow in the winter of '41 (part of well prepared/led Siberian divisions transferred from the Far East), and then a great uncle who was wounded at the Battle of Konigsberg. On my mom's side I have one great grandfather that defended Leningrad, and another that was taken prisoner in the summer of '42 near Stalingrad (both survived).
My story is surprisingly unremarkable for a Russian family. Pic related, a memorial in my grandma's village in Siberia (Altai Krai)
>>68761872
My Great Grandfather fought in Burma in WW2.
>>68761872
My Luxemburger family forcedly fought in the German wehrmacht during WWII on the Eastern Front. Got captured there too.
My great-uncle hated the Germans with a zealous passion because of his forced conscription and he lived 5km from the Luxemburg-German border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_in_World_War_II
Jolly good fun forced conscription is. They executed those who staunchly refused or deserted.
>>68761872
My great great uncle was a general, dad's dad was a tank driver in wwii, and mom's dad served in 'Nam
>>68766462
What is the equivalent to veteran affairs over there? Not too many vets where I live by
>>68766634
>They executed those who staunchly refused or deserted.
Rightfully so desu.
>>68766422
Damn. Great-grandparents all served on the eastern from in ww2. Had a great uncle who made it to Berlin then stepped on a mine on may 9th.
>>68765079
Did they win that war :0?
>>68766634
Jew speculator, kill yourself,.
>>68765375
That was my favorite game growing up. Now I have to go back and look for your uncle.
I find it so interesting that many Americans have relatives that fought for both the Allies and Axis in WW2.
>>68761872
my granddad was infantry in WW2, not sure exactly what he did since he never liked to talk about it but i know his unit was deployed after D day, today at 95 he can't walk piss or shit without assistance and while he isn't senile, his depression and apathy give the appearance of such to those that he doesn't know/isn't willing to talk to, it's tremendously sad
Both grandparents and their parents were with the french resistance during WWII. That's all I know about anyway.
>>68761872
Vietnam- Uncle
WW2 Grandpa (USA) Great Uncle (SS)
WW1 Great Uncle (USA)
Irish revolution 2Great uncles (Got achile's tendons cut by the english)
US civil war Great Grandfather (South under stonewall Jackson and Robert E Lee)
My dad was a heli pilot in vietnam. Literally dropped agent orange on gooks.
He suffered from about 75 medical problems, and died of the 'fastest progressing alzheimers' he ever saw. Went from zero symptoms to death in 3 months.
He lived to 68, but still. Dat agent orange was no joke.
>>68766339
I wouldnt know any Westpointer cause if there was any for obvious reason or past left behind.
usually previous military background dont make it throu cause they are already formated.
i havent read that book. we dont really have time to read especially during these last few years.
>>68761872
I think my grandfather shot at germans, but he never wanted to talk about it so I don't think he was really into it.
>>68766634
Your story sounds really similar to my grandfathers story.
>>68766624
I volunteer as an EMT. One of patients we had to transport was a 96 y/o M who fought in Stalingrad. I wish I spoke russian or that he spoke English. He was with his daughter. Just real cool guy. I thanked him for what he did. Can't imagine all the carnage he saw
>>68761872
My grandfather fought in Egypt in WW2, but he didn't ultimately see much action. He spent most of his time training Australians
New here, my grandfather fought in WWII
>fought at marco polo bridge
>remove jap
>shot twice, blown up by grenade.
>China becomes communist
>exiled to Taiwan
>tfw
>>68761872
Grest grandfathers on both sides were in WW2 in opposite theaters. On my mom's side, intelligence in the UK. On my dad's side, minesweeper in the Pacific. He was slated to be in the first wave of the assault on Tokyo harbor if the Manhattan project couldn't produce in time. Technically the Hiroshima bombing is the reason I'm alive today.
>>68761872
My Grandpappy dropped a Nuke on Japan.
>>68761872
My father fought in the gulf war
>>68763310
>lol im sooo contrary i thnk wwii ws unimprtnt loool
Fuck off, retard.
>>68766859
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-good-soldier-why-a-suicidal-officer-had-to-go-awol-to-save-his-life-20150924?page=13
>article and pic related
>>68761872
Not really participated in a war but my grandfather was stuck in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia when he was 9.
>>68761872
No. Because all of my grandparents parents were farmers and therfore excluded from service. My grandparents themselves were too young (14-16 yo).
I learned last weekend that they treated their polish forced labourers like shit though. They didn't even let them sleep with the cattle. But they've beaten e.g. my grandfather half dead a lot of times, so there's that. They seemed to be evil mofos...
Like my entire fucking family, oldest records we have date back to the Royal Navy in the early 1700s. You name a war and my family have probably killed (and in a few cases died) in it.
I'm the first in my family to not be in the Army, although my cousins served in Afghanistan and Iraq
>>68763127
I got diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy when I was 12 ruining my chances of militray service as well. I know that feel bro.
>>68766660
Veteran Affairs? Erm the British legion I guess? But it's full of old dudes who wear capbadge embroidered blazers and speak to civilians like they're still a sergeant major.
Great Grandfather fought in WW2, grandpa and dad fought together in the Croatian War of Independence. Both suffered wounds. Grandpa lost a leg, dad got shot in the right shoulder.
>>68766954
Thanks for the jap removal service
>>68761872
My dad fights in the War On Christmas by telling people to have a happy holiday
>>68763652
More like Tiny Dick Syndrome
>>68766022
underrated kek
My grand uncle fought Germans and died defending Leningrad, I've found out where he is buried only last year.
>>68766634
I also have a Dutch great-uncle that was a pilot in training before WWII. When Holland got occupied badly he became a resistance pilot dropping carepackages where needed and did some good old leaflet psy-ops too.
He had to run off to the UK in a dinky row-boat across the Canal for safety.
>>687671762
Dam that sucks. Hard to find demographics where I am from that I can connect too. Lots of liberals around here or people that just look at Vets funny. Especially when you mention Marine they think you have PTSD or are just a ticking time bomb
Grandpa was in WWI
Uncle was a spook with the CIA in Vietnam
I started in Germany on the border during the Cold War, then through current shit.
If any of your relatives feel like talking about what they have done, somebody should document this for the family. Don't let their stories die with them.
>>68766934
At least Taiwan is comfortable
>>68764238
This German cuck knows a cuck when he sees one
>tfw grandfather fought against other grandfather in WWII
>>68766902
Well, Germany did consolidate its grip over Luxembourg firmly with germanization and forced conscription. My family was/is from Marnach, near Clervaux.
>>68767515
Mother's side. I'm malaysian, which is a third world islamic shithole. I wish i were taiwanese. Applying for college in the states tho, looking to migrate LEGALLY
>>68767410
> a CIA spook in Vietnam
I guess he doesn't tell any stories, would be really interesting.
>>68767352
In guessing that was for me?
We have a bit of a different military culture over hear, nobody really cares if you say you're a veteran. Americas got its liberals yeah, but when I visited you tell them you've fought in Afghan and it's free drinks, thank you for your service and so on, but here its "oh right"
I guess it's our understated nature that most Brit vets don't really care about being involved with a veterans group. I wear my veteran pin but to me it's in the past now and apart from with a few of my old mates from regiment I don't really think about being a soldier
my great uncle fought in WWII, at one point a person in his troop was shot and wounded, he turned around and ran back towards gun fire to rescue the guy, they both survived and lived until their 80's and became close friends.
>>68763690
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>>68766690
He died on May 9? fuck :(
>>68767935
>fighting against nationalists in favor of a multi racialist state
No.
Both of my grandfathers were in the Air Corps in ww2. Neither of them flew.
One was stationed in the Aleutian islands not doing much of anything, in case on the off hand chance that Japan or Russia attempted to invade North America via Alaska.
The other was in the Pacific, about a day behind the marines. His job was to kill Japs who were still alive and hiding in holes and shit after the battles. His weapons were a flame thrower and grenades. He apparently saw some crazy shit
WW1 WW2 Algeria
>>68766137
Thank you for your service to the politician class and the defense industry
>>68761872
Great Uncle was tank commander in WW2
Guadalcanal. Killed a bunch of japs, got sick, killed a croc
