• Anyone got Family thats been in fighting in a War?
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[QUOTE=Virtanen;21796254]Finnish civil war, White guards. Not proud, the whites murdered everyone they didn't like after the war.[/QUOTE] And the reds did exactly the same during the war... I'd rather have the whites in power than the reds.
My Great Grand Father from my mother's side fought in the Chinese civil war. The story (as I am told) is that he was an opium addict. His wife (or my great grand mother) didn't give him any money so he decided to "enlist" but its not really enlist its going to a recruiter and then they give you a gun and a unit pretty much. Sometimes you don't get a gun either because Communist China sucked so much back then. He wrote letters about the war and fighting the Kuomintang, we still have two of them I think in a safe box, basically what it said was he stole a uniform and it was pretty shitty and take care of his son (my grand father). Eventually he stopped writing and in the process my great grand mother tried to sell the stones or shells from her house but she went from bottom to top and the wall crushed her and she died. Something like that except less funny and more tragic. My grand father never got any compensation when his father died or at least I don't know about it. I also met one of my uncles for the first time. He's a colonel in the US air force and he flies a bomber plane I think. When I asked him about his tour in iraq he just told me he dropped bombs on terrorists.
My Great Uncle was in the Cicho ciemni, a unit that dropped into occupied Poland during WWII and trained young boys and men in the art of Sabotage and Ambushes. He then joined the tank corps and operated the radio in a Sherman tank under Monte Cassino but i don't know much as when he was asked he stared blankly at the floor for a few minuites and then changed the subject. The poor man really suffered during his last few years on earth. My other great uncle was in the cavalry and was exceptionally well trained (to the point where he could fire a bolt action from underneath a horse) and narrowly escaped being shot by the Russians after overhearing the conversation between a Kommisar and a secratary who when asked what was going on (he spoke russian exceptionally well) was told to flee by her and he did. I also know a few RAF veterans who took part in the Battle of britain but they're all dying out, so are the Army veterans. [editline]04:32PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;21811990][img]http://files.braxnet.org/ecda60b.JPG[/img] my grandfather is one of them i think. Or maybe he took the photo of his buddies[/QUOTE] SS?
My Grandad drove a tank in the 2nd World War and was at Juno beach and my Great Grandad was in the navy, I have a photo album somewhere around with pictures he took from all over the world. I also have a photo of my grandad and some of his army buddies holding up a Nazi flag they found in Normandy. I don't know a hell of a lot about my Grandad's time in the war, only that one of his friends was killed by a sniper when they had to jump out of their tank, if my Grandad had been a few seconds slower getting out then I wouldn't be here today. I'll see if I can dig up the photos I was talking about and upload them. Found them! These are the photos of my Grandad, some of them are captioned and just to note Dad and George are the same person, my Nan seemed to switch between them occasionally. By the way, he's British, I'm pretty sure the Nazi flag was just a souvenir, no idea about the plane though. If I had to take a guess they were probably on a captured airfield at the time or something similar. [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img005.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img004.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img002.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img003.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img006.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/PulperdFiction/img001.jpg[/IMG]
2 of my 3 uncles were in a war. 1 uncle was in Vietnam, serving as a medic, and the other served in WW2 as a radio operator. Both are still alive. :downs:
My great grandfather served in WWII for the Soviets, he stepped near a mine and blew both his legs off.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;21813146] SS?[/QUOTE] yah, as you can see on the collar. took some pictures [img]http://files.braxnet.org/3fccdda.JPG[/img] [img]http://files.braxnet.org/f39e72a.JPG[/img] [img]http://files.braxnet.org/9944180.JPG[/img] here he is [editline]edited:[/editline] i totally killed the thread
The presence of an SS descendant totally killed our boners.
[QUOTE=Silentlink;21898636]The presence of an SS descendant totally killed our boners.[/QUOTE] You're assuming that every SS Soldier was a war criminal. Plenty of them were more focused on combat duties then participating in the holocaust etc.
It's much cooler with a family member that was SS then a regular Us och british soldier
my grandfather served in ww2 when he was in the middle of a fight alone he ran into a german also alone, but they didn't fire at each other The same guy my grandfather ran into during that fight remembered my grandfathers name tag, came to america to tracked him down, and called him to hang out
[QUOTE=Theo213;21898749]You're assuming that every SS Soldier was a war criminal. Plenty of them were more focused on combat duties then participating in the holocaust etc.[/QUOTE] I never assumed anything. I realise the SS were not all war criminals - in fact, I doubt most of them were but I'm not aware of the statistics. I just thought it was comical how the thread came to a halt following that post.
[QUOTE=saucekeg;21898881]my grandfather served in ww2 when he was in the middle of a fight alone he ran into a german also alone, but they didn't fire at each other The same guy my grandfather ran into during that fight remembered my grandfathers name tag, came to america to tracked him down, and called him to hang out[/QUOTE] That's pretty cool... Also shows how fucked up war as a whole is.
My cousin Michael was in the Royal Artillery and my other cousin Kevin is an officer on a submarine. You might have seen this nuclear submarine on the news, it was under the water for 3 months in the Arctic ocean. My grandfather served in Taiwan doing something, I don't know what, my great grandfather was in World War 2. I don't know if this counts but my dads cousin or my second cousin was in the SAS, he does not tell use much about his "operations" but it seems kind of cool. He makes the best home-made chips you will ever eat, I am not kidding. He did tell us something about a drug bust in France, but I don't really know why he did this or if it was even a drug bust at all, I will get all of his information out of him one day.
I have heard a few stories about my grandfather it's a short one and I'm not even sure if its true but here it is anyway. It was a harsh winter that year and the Russians were invading Finland. Grandfather and a couple of other men were stationed on a road with a heavy machine gun. They stood there for several hours until they spotted them: several russian soldiers walking the road towards them. The Russians didn't have proper clothes for the harsh winter in Finland. They were freezing and didn't have time to get cover. They got shot and killed. Grandfather walked up to the dead soldiers and said: "Mitäs tulitte tänne Suomen talveen." In English it would be: "Thats what you get for coming to the Finnish winter."
I think my stepdad either fought in the falklands or the Gulf war.
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