ITT: Family War histories and stories

ITT: Family War histories and stories

Ill start
>2 great uncles served in the SS, Both 5th SS Wiking
>One surrendered to the russians during the Budapest breakout attempt
>russians held him for 7 years in siberia before he was released, his family thought he was dead until he showed up
>worked on a french farm until he was murdered which was speculated to be revenge for a war crime
>killer was never found
>the other surrendered to the americans in austria
>Americans held him for 1 year before releasing him

>Grandfather on other side of the family was german born but moved to canada when he was young
>when war started he signed up with the canadian armed forces and served in a churchill tank as the radio operator (hull machine gunner)
>served in the italy campaign
>early 1944 he was admitted to a psych ward because he couldnt handle the guilt of killing his own people
>didnt come home until 1947 due to health issues

Thats my family war history would love to hear more of yours /b
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>be my great-grandfather
>poor austro-hungarian farmer born in nowadays Romanian territory
>1914
>WW1 breaks out
>Austria declares war on Serbia who is then defended by Russia
>Russkies invade Austria-Hungary
>be conscripted to the army
>fight some battles and survive dispite losing all of them
>gain some courage and honour medals
>be on this particular battle (and survive somehow)
>russkies BTFO austro-hungarians
>russian cavalry comes in with bayonets and shit
>they're coming to check if there are any survivors
>imfucked.jpg
>see plenty of bodies around
>hide under a lot of 'em
>russians come with the bayonets
>they can't reach him
>he survives

thats fuckin wild man

I'll never forgive the nazis for how they treated my grandfather. he spent 4 years at a concentration camp and was passed over for promotion time and time again.

>grandmother was very young at the wars start
>semi wealthy family, owned a small logging company
>artillery hits their house and the family has to leave
>they walk on the road farther west for days
>eventually the russians catch up to them
>raped her and her mother
>probably happened many times while they were still behind russian lines
>father was taken away and sent to siberia
>eventually grandmother and her mom somehow made it to canada
>her father spent 6 years in siberia before he was finally released

will never forgive those russian savages

>worked on a french farm until he was murdered which was speculated to be revenge for a war crime

That was Israeli Mossad, not even kidding. They hunted down thousands of German veterans (SS volunteers in particular) and murdered them.

Anyway. Thats an awesome family history. The SS were formidable fighters and truly motivated to defend their homeland.

holy shit that is wonderful to know thanks so much

my friends great grandpa only spoke german after being a pow for years. the dude kept a journal in which he encripted secret messages and all sorts of shit about his family members being nazis. apparently he learned fluent german in the pow camp.

Your grandfathers were doing the right thing. Even when the world says otherwise.

that weard feel when.jpg
one of my great grandpapys
was in the gastapo
and another a soldier of the red army

why dont you avenge your great gramps by killing some jews

cause then their jew kids will kill me, gotta break the cycle

heh

Break the cycle by killing their kids as well.

or better yet dont let them have any

>be my grandfather
>living in the Netherlands, little village 5 minutes from the German border
>meets a German girl, marries her
>was normal, countryside, all speaking the same dialect on both sides of the border, who cared about nationality?
>then Nazis ruled Germany, started WWII, invaded the Netherlands in 5 days, we were not prepared for war
>grandfather joined resistance, grandma helped him, her German passport prevented suspicion
>one day raid on German convoy went wrong, nazis hunted men down in village
>house search; grandad hiding under upside down tub, grandma sat on it doing potatos, they didn't find him
>2 of his brothers got caught, send to prison, 1 was sentenced and shot, other send to camp, didn't survive
>when allies came in 1944 population evacuated to north of Netherlands: hunger winter till 1945
>3 little children, my mom and 2 sisters, one died after pneumonia
>returned to own village, house was almost destroyed, German army put horses in living room, demolished all just for fun, possessions gone
>war ended, grandparents never talked about war or family losses
>German grandma had a hard time living in NL being German, she never told people she helped Dutch resistance, being afraid of Germans taking revenge.
>I grew up near German border, have worked 7 years in Germany, my father worked there for 38 years
>whenever I saw an old German guy I wondered: what did you do? Did you kill my relatives?
>they all pretend they don't remember and others did it, all say they had an unimportant job in the army
>young Germans say it was a different Germany, nothing to do with them
>I don't like Germans in general, they still look down on other races and countries, think they are better in everything

I'm from Sweden and few have been to war(If you count UN peacemaker missions as being a part of war)

>Dad was enlisted as a Lapplandsjägare(not sure what that's called in English) then after that he spent 15 years in the homeguard as a platoon commander
>3/4 out of my uncles from my dads side was enlisted, one volunteered to do one tour in Kosovo and one turn in Afghanistan. Sometimes he gets flashbacks
>My grandpa from dads side was enlisted but not sure what he enlisted as and for how long.
>My uncle from my mothers side was enlisted and served as a guard in Berga for a couple of years.
>Two of my aunts are currently serving in the Homeguard, one is a medic and the other one is a logistics driver.
>My grandpa was enlisted, but not sure for how long and after he was enlisted, he joined the Homeguard and served also as a Platoon commander.

sweds have to serve a mandatory service right? are they subject to being sent on foreign missions while under mandatory service?

They had to, but not anymore. I'm not sure though if they were forced to serve in foreign countries.

>ww2 breaks out
>great uncle and his father get conscripted in the wehrmacht
>they didnt saw eachother for years
>uncle serves as some tank dude
his father in the supply
>uncle goes to get some supply
>calls his second name and shit he needs
>supply dude gets triggerd
>"bro wasnt you there 15 minuts ago"?
>"nah bro wtf"
>supply bro look in the lists and show him the name
>he missed his father who supplied the base 15 min ago

I got more cont.

please continue

>Be my grandma
>Living the luxurious life in Austria 1930s
>Her dad is a famous pianist, mom is kinda nothing
>Really high level education
>Even meets Hitler at one point in school
>WW2 breaks out
>Dad goes to Switzerland, never comes back
>Their house gets bombed, no possessions left
>She's about 12 at this point
>On a really distant family relation they can move in to a house in Hungary
>No method of transport and no money so they basically hike from Austria to Hungary
>Piss poor life, basically weave shirts and try to sell them to people
>Has 5 sisters, barely enough money to get food
>Somehow interviews with a university
>She's a woman and poor and back then universities didn't give a fuck about you then
>Basically lies that she's from a prominent family, attends university under a fake name
>WW2 ends, Hungary falls under Soviet regime, live a socialist life from then on.
>At one point her dad told her that he was coming to Hungary and that he wanted to visit her but she refused

TLDR Austrian grandma got rekt economically at young age, survives hike to Hungary, attends university under a false name

Cont.
>after that he never saw or heard something about him again
>last letter to the fam said that he was moved to infantries
>feelsbad.jpg
>uncle fought against russia till stalingrad
>fucking badass tank crew
>never said shit about the war and how it was
>they ordered this division to france
>he fought somewhere behind the normandy
>told me that they had to fall back
>they parked the tank somewhere in the bushed at a forest
>did some fine ass camo
>chillig the day in the tank he had to check the situation outside
>he looked out the tank with some field glas
>boom headshot
>he didnt know what happend
>woke up saw some muricans
>they gave him first aid
>"holy fuck I survied a headshot"
>graze shot
>they treated him pretty good
>was taken in millitary prison
>they treated him really respectful
>after 1 year he gets free
>comes home
>father and sister missing

Grandpa was a child he told me what happend home
Shall i cont ?

nah, life is too short

More stories please, so sad

>be grandpa
>be 17
>member of a government militia
>war breaks out 1939
>get drafted into a war at underage

fast forward
>1944
>have spent your youth at war front
>get seriously wounded by own artillery and swim away across a ricer to safety with your back full of metal pieces, sand and rocks
>be still alive
I wonder how he came out sane from that

>be my other grandpa
>get shot into both shoulders
>I kept asking about his scars
>all he said was "I got them from some sort of machine gun. Look the bullets hit me same height"

>be my grandma
>work in a field hospital
>an 18 years old kid with a fist sized hole through his stomach is brought there
>keeps screaming "sister, please sister bring me morphine"
>no medicines left, no way to help him
>during the night the screams had stopped

>be grandma again
>in a female paramilitary
>be air policing
>air raid begins
>run trough burning streets to nearest bomb shelter
>everything around the shelter is burning
>so hot that some people suffocated and water in a canister started boiling

>be grandpa's brother
>be a school kid
>be walking to school like it was an ordinary day
>an air battle starts over head
>dig into ground and watch
> a russkie plane gets shot down
>pilot falls
>over a fucking cow
>cow and pilot are dead

bump

Itd be real fucking funny if your grandfather captured your uncles

>be grandpa
>be 15
>1945; get drafted to the Volkssturm
>don't want to kill people, don't want to get killed
>get on a patrol in northern germany by the weser river, near hometown with two other that are actually hardcore nazis
>see a dead american soldier by the river shore, he still has his weapon
>go to the soldier, take his gun, shoot the two other guys in their chests
>shoots himself in the arm
>get back to the base and get released from the volkssturm

What a faggot cuck

At least we know where you get your traits from

I'm pretty sure this didnt happen

>SS Wiking
>Defend their homeland

Lel, I didn't know defending homeland was about dying for another country which conquered you. How cucked do you have to be?

My uncle was accused of raping 3 women in IRAQ. Discharged other than honorable. I'm 100 percent sure he did it.

Did he tell the women to Baghdad ass up

They were pussies, which is why they lost the fucking war. My grandfather mowed them down like grass. He marveled at what cowards they turned out to be, pissing their pants to surrender.

>grandfather was german soldier in WW2
>should go to stalingrad, but got sick
>ended up in russian detention somehow
>got released years later, married his girlfriend (my grandmother) who was waiting for him the whole time

>Be cousin fighting in Iraq as Marine
>In charge of refugee camp in butt fuck nowhere
>Days are long and hot these locals stink
>Some ex Iraqi army grunt tells me he doesn't trust a group that shares a tent.
>Blow it off, probably just stole his goat wife mfw
>Next day RPG is shot into groups tent.
>God damn it Ahmad.

war is for faggots
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5th as wiking was formed around the ss Germania regiment which was as the name would suggest predominantly ethnic Germans hence how my German great uncles served in it
The remaining regiments were however foreign

>maternal grandfather denied enlistment by his father
>grandfather ran away from home, lied on his enlistment, joined Navy at 16
>his dad turned him in but told the Navy to keep him full tour
>grandfather ran mail for a while until he got onto a resupply detail
>sent to Pacific to help Jap problem
>mostly stood where he was supposed to, helping other guess run shells up to the cannons

Not very interesting. Ones of his brothers was a marine that bought it in Iwo Jima, another one was a Ranger in the 101st who jumped during the redeployment into Holland. Can't remember what he said about Bastogne, but he did not enjoy the war at all and rarely talked about it.

>One surrendered to the russians during the Budapest breakout attempt
Swine!

Your grandfather had a good time killing dipshit German nationalists in Africa like a fucking retard. Everyone respected the tactical might and sheer ferocity of the Waffen SS, especially the Americans

>Great Grandpa had a good office life in the SS >presumably smart, or maybe not.
>Caved into peer pressure to go fight
>Fighting in Russia and shit
>Supposedly had a good heart
>Instead of shooting a bunch of civilian looking conscripts he cheked em
>SS buddy wanted to shoot them, kek
>Russki Conscript shot him from under the jacket.

>other stories say there was a fire fight and he got hit by a grenade, long death of over an hour

Still am proud of him for trying. Better luck next time.

My grandfather died in WWII from falling out of a guard tower.

>Can't remember what he said about Bastogne
Frozen hell comes to mind. Probably why he doesn't talk about it.

>Be my gramdfather
>Be teenager in Sparti Greece
>WW2 Germans invade Greece
>shit.jpg
>One day Redelion Greek army (EAM) comes home take me to fight with them in da mountains
>Used mostly as medic cause i'm still 13-14
>seen lots of battles
>war ends
>civil war starts between Amerifat lovers (National army) vs. (EAM)commie lovers
>Army comes to my house
>fuck
>Beat me up and take me to fight woth them against EAM
>shitfuckinfuck.gif
>another 4 years of fighting
>go home once again
> letter comes
>" You must enlist to your obligatory time in army serving the country (Cause war and I didn't do it)
>mfw
>mfw 12 years in the army
>mfw I servived it all had a family and die of camcer due to smoking
>shit.webm

>Be my gramdfather
>Be teenager in Sparti Greece
>WW2 Germans invade Greece
>shit.jpg
>One day Redelion Greek army (EAM) comes home take me to fight with them in da mountains
>Used mostly as medic cause i'm still 13-14
>seen lots of battles
>war ends
>civil war starts between Amerifat lovers (National army) vs. (EAM)commie lovers
>Army comes to my house
>fuck
>Beat me up and take me to fight woth them against EAM
>shitfuckinfuck.gif
>another 4 years of fighting
>go home once again
> letter comes
>" You must enlist to your obligatory time in army serving the country (Cause war and I didn't do it)
>mfw
>mfw 12 years in the army
>mfw I servived it all had a family and die of cancer due to smoking
>shit.webm

Send your thanks to Hitler
Russians lost 20 million souls in that war, mostly on their own territory from invading Nazi shits. They had something to rape about

>Russians lost 20 million souls in that war, mostly on their own territory from invading Nazi shits.
Bolshevik mongrel / edgy liberal detected.
You know those uneducated fucks were taking water closets because they thought they were for washing potatoes and buckwheat, right?
They were indolent, retarded savages with lend-lease weaponry.

They are better than any country in Europe lol Netherlands doesn't do shit

(not the guy with the grandma.)
Hard to justify who to hate, but thats how wars keep on coming and going i guess?

I'm not a big fan of Israel but have to thank the Mossad for their relentless pursuit of those pieces of shits. Even if they survived, they were always fearful up until they went to hell

>praises jewish murderers
Good goyim.

Not sure what the fuck are you saying but someone should had locked him up

>I don't like Germans in general, they still look down on other races and countries, think they are better in everything

dirty facking jew.

I lost almost all my ancestors because of the soviets. You know nothing about war convoy raider jewish bastard

>be grandfather 1
>always a bit of a liberal, lefty
>doesn't matter, Hitler one
>get conscripted
>sent to Kriegsmarine
>sent to submarine
>fuckthat.jpeg
>I'm not dying in this can
>"fall" off ladder in submarine and fracture leg
>be sent home

>be grandfather 2
>serving in Wehrmacht
>Battle of Stalingrad
>mfw
>spend 10y in Siberia

>come from a Austrian descent
>grand grand papa is half ruski half austrian nemitzh
>serves as an intelligence officer at the armored corps and a tank platoon commander for the ruskis
>being sent to east euro when shit breaks loose and ww2 start
>he given a mission to destroy a secret Panzer platoon of the germs, classified as top secret mission, intel says there's an important german officer who's also the platoon commander
>ambush them
>win battle
>no german survivors
>my papa retrieve intel and documents from tanks
>comes to the german platoon leader tank
>opens up and takes bodies out
>tfw the german platoon commander has the fucking exact family last name as my papa
>both are officers and tank commanders
>papa is sent for a few years to siberia with accusation of spying
>being demoted a rank lower
>MFW i was a tank commander myself when i was in military

and the best part is
>mfw i am a total fucking jew

>not a big fan of israel

Why the fuck not? Israel imo is fucking great and besides all the memes they really dont do shit wrong besides help EVERYONE.

Fuckin libtards always bend the media so dont spew your "Muh palestine" bullshit

>proud of being a jew
>in the USSR
I guess the Doctor's Plot didn't bug you then. A bigger holocaust than the holocaust.
And this, Sup Forumsros, is why Jews can never be trusted.

hen ? You should stop blogs.

...

Gee i wonder whos behind this post...

>Both grandfather and father served in the swedish navy during cold war.
>Lots of fuckery from both USSR and NATO
>invading airspace and swedish waters
>Nothing major happened, but they we´re always on high alert
>A few stand offs and close calls here and there over the years
>fuck NATO and fuck USSR

My paternal grandfather was conscripted into the Finnish army in WWII when USSR invaded.
At one point he killed a soviet officer with a point blank shot.
He frisked the officer's belongings, among them an odd soviet semi-automatic sidearm which had something akin to carbine ammunition.
The shell was like 9mm but it was angled down for the bullet which was maybe 5.56mm.
I don't remember the exact dimensions, but I got to shoot with it when I was 15 and visited my grandfather's summer cottage in the forest.
He didn't talk anything else about the war, just that he had ended up face to face with this fucker and drew his gun faster so he stayed alive.

On my mother's side, the family is from the far north, where the SS was based and held the line against the soviets.
Food shortage and famine, my grandmother's sister had small children and they were starving.
To save her children, she traded food for sex with SS-men.
It ended in new pregnancies and the end result was that there were now SS-offspring in the family.
It wasn't talked about in the family in that generation, but it came to light with her grandchildren.
It messed people up in the head, and it was pretty clear who was übermensch, because the family is pretty lappish, all the girls look like Björk, so a germanic aryan in the bunch stands out.
One by one these grandchildren died in suicide in their forties, they couldn't deal with the situation despite having loving families of their own and thriving farms.

>grandfather AWOL
>grandmother senile
>will never know of family roots/history outside of what I find on shitty record holding websites

War is hell.

>great gfather Russian farmer 17.
>ussr raids his farm takes all his home takes horses
>food and property
>helps ussr load corpses on to trains and anything they ordered
>moves to Canada in 1924 after ww1
>profits

WW1 and USSR??
>moves to Canada in 1924 after ww1
ww1 ended in 1918

wat?

well then you have no clue about us germans at all.

He moved to Florida like right after he got home, a matter of days if I'm not mistaken. When he would visit my family he would usually make comments of how it's not as cold as Bastogne outside so shut the hell up. He's there in some of the photos of American soldiers looking horrified at emaciated Jews. After he had kids he would constantly volunteer with his church or with habitat for humanity and generally tried to be a good person without ever being nice about it.

is this supposed to be bait?

history fags are too easy.

Does 1918 come after 1924 in your sperg world?

I was born in 1990 after world war 2 hurrdurr

And the USSR wasent even founded until mid 1922, russian civil war ended in spring 1923

you are a cunt, get fucked

pls do user

grandfathers on both sides of family were in bomber command and plastered the shit out of them nazi cunts - yaay!

>Be grandfather
>WWII breaks out
>Enlist in fledgling air unit near hometown
>Work in an airbase and get shipped over for the North African campaign
>Plane comes down heavy, on fire
>Hits runway hard
>Run in, grab two men and get out before plane goes up in flames
>One of the men is a high ranking officer, asks me if there is anything that I can do to thank me.
>"I want to fly, sir."
>Within 2 weeks get transferred to flight school
>Become pilot of B-17
>Fly missions over Africa and the Italian Campaign
>Hate flak

Different story
>Mission upcoming
>Suddenly feel extremely sick
>Get grounded by doctor
>Turns out 2/3 of wing was shot down that mission
>survive by sheer luck or divine intervention.

Go vote for Hillary somewhere else.

>uncle doing patrol in Vietnamese jungle
>so dark can't even see each other along tiny dirt trail
>every 10 minutes or so do head count
>"...8...9...good, 10 assholes, let's keep moving"
>hiking/head count go on for about an hour
>eventually stop and do another head count
>"...8...9...10..."
>11?
>fucking grunts dicking around
>counts again
>"...8...9...10...11?"
>summinaightright.joeg
>turns on fisher price chest flashlight
>apparently vc also doing jungle patrols at night
>so close even that one gook got separated from group and thought he had rejoined it
>they shoot tue fucker and lay low for an hour

>gramps is naval crewman on pacific front
>Guadalcanal
>Pelelieu
>all his marine buddies never get back on the boat to play cards and smoke cigs with him
>sadface
>japs attack ship with small arms
>japs try to board w pt boat
>gramps pulls grenade pin and rolls it over the side
>nade falls into pt boat
>japs face when

>ok

I'm sure it happened
heard a lot of stories similar to this, especially from the last few months of the war

>will never forgive those russian savages
>for something I never experienced myself

Are you by any chance Finnish?

Wow....he is so handsome. German men are beautiful. No homo.

>great grandfather got gassed in 1943.

> bee Åge in nazi occupied norway in WW2.
>british bombs going off anywhere.
>Åge owns greenhous
>need to debug it.
> gets Hydrogen cyanide
> activate gas
> stubble
> gets gassed....

>Wakes up in hospital.

great grand dad was freedom fighter
has blown up a shit ton of rail way tracks and junckins
on night it went worng they where spotted by nazis
grand dad ran like a motherfucker
1 of his buddies drop'd his wallet (stupid fuck)
buddy was shot next day
grand dad took revenge
the fucker blew so mutch shit up he got a bigass stone memorial somewhere in my contry, have never seen it but i will some day

My gramps was making sniper rifles in a factor due to asthma during ww2
But I have another Vietnam story from uncle
>Uncle doing mortar artillery in jungle hills of Vietnam
>fire fight breaks out a couple football fields away
>Huey's flying in and machine gunning jungle
>just another day in Vietnam
>gets radio'd coordinates to hit
>adjusts tube to coordinates and plops one in
>fires off a couple of shells until new radio order
>radio guy gives them new numbers
>uncle adjusts, turns out new area is actually a significant couple hundred yards further
>later finds out radio guy fucked up hard first time
>uncle had mortar'd a hot LZ and blow up a Huey loaded with several wounded g.i.'s
I remember him telling me this story nonchalant, like it was just another bullshit day in Vietnam and chuckled

>most men in my family serve in the military
>earliest record is some dude fucking with the french during the french and indian war
>for some reason every at the time of a major war no male in my family is old enough, or too old
>Until WW1
>some uncle of mine about 5 generations back signs up for the US marines
>gets gased
>gets a fever
>comes home
>dies in 1924

>grandfather has his own small shop
>ww2 happens- he gets conscripted
>somehow manages to survive some tough shit
>he gest promoted to a waffen SS corporal
>nazis find out his mother is a known communist
>he looses all his medals but keeps his rank
>stalingrad happenes, at this point it became clear the war will be lost
>his squad manages to escape the Stalingrad cauldron (no idea how)
>he tells his squad to piss off
>as a deserted solider he travels from the eastern front to the western front since he prefers american war captivity
>after he war he makes my dad- the rest is history

> be me
> living under fascist regime
> life is shit, too poor to eat or get educated
> see nazi scum manspreading on subway
> yell stop raping me
> veteran of war against patriarchy

Risto?

Not family related but saw this one story to keep thread bumped
>1945
>young Japanese pilot in what's left of Japanese Air Force
>Americans going on the home islands, so he knows what to expect
>day finally comes
>commander gives him the headband/saki cup and has ceremony on run way
>told his family will be notified of their sons heroic death and honor
>gets loaded into a zero packed with explosives and enough gas to get him to the target
>him and 10 other guys take off and fly towards American fleet
>flys low to avoid enemy flak
>gets shot down over water, survives
>gets picked up by Japanese fishing boat, makes it back to mainland
> makes it back to base and finds commander
>walks over and saluted him
>"pilot Shinobe, ready for another mission"
>commander beats the shit out of him

I think it may be the opposite, my dude. They're still saddened by it, crushed by the sins of their fathers.

Remember man, no one wins war. We only lose a little less.

>Father - WWII (I'm older, so?)
>Grew up in a Pennsylvania Dutch family, spoke German native and had travelled as a kid, so he could imitate accents. Spent the war interrogating German soldiers
>2 Uncles in Korea. One at Chosin - he never talked about it unless he had been drinking, then he would tell us about how one night was so cold when he killed a Chinese soldier he cut him open to warm up from the body heat. And how when he was shot he didn't know for a while because the blood froze the wound shut
>The other uncle was an air force spotter
>2 uncles in Vietnam. One was infantry that used flamethrowers and willy pete to clear tunnels And buildings. And villages. The other was special forces and hee'd impale vietcong and leave them on the trails to scare the others
>I was in the Gulf War; electronic warfare. I'd locate hidden groups by radio signatures and call in air strikes.

damn your granddaddy was a pussy

>Doesn't love his nana
You're scum

>long before war Great grandad went to Germany on travel visa(or whatever they had)
>Did his education and fell in love with great grandma but couldnt stay unless he held a job
>foreign (australia btw) that wasnt gonna happen Great Grandma's Dad gives him a job on the farm because he knows his daughter wants his aussie sperms.
>10 years later married and 3 kids
Happy as can possibly be. And hitlers now out and about with full propaganda.
>g-grandad gets dobbed in by his own wife as a communist because he doesnt believe in hitlers vision.
> oh shit back to aus we go
>conscripted and fought in infantry.
>long after war learns g-grandma and three little aussie sperms are survived.
>gets there and ma already died and all three kids are expecting big money from this foreign parent. Dies early a broken hearted old man

So i got a bunch of nazi decendants still in germany in my family but we dont talk to them

>Grandpa 1 is Sgt in USAAF during WW2
>enters Pacific theater during the Philippines campaign
>stringing wire with Signal Corp when Jap willie pete shell lands on them
>burns his men and some Filipino soldiers skin off
>only survives because he's up the pole

>Great Uncle is in African theater during Tunisian Campaign
>has heatstroke during attempted capture of Erwin Rommel
>melts his brain
>completely fucked after that

>Grandpa 2 is in US Navy during WW2
>friends get killed because shitty CO made poor decisions
>"FUCK YOU SHITTY CO!"
>"You can't talk to me like that, I outrank you!"
>beats CO's ass and breaks his nose
>spends rest of war in brig

>Uncle is in US Army during Vietnam
>survives multiple tours
>comes home
>an heroes