1) Your grandparent's regiment and related links if possible
2) Battles they fought in
3) Whether or not they survived and what they did after the war
>1) Queens Own Rifles
>qor.com
>2) Fought on the beaches of Normandy but was otherwise assigned to defense
>3) Survived Normandy and opened a parcel delivery company in Southern Ontario
lol at army cucks always living shit lives and dying for people like me to live in supreme comfort
now hurry back off to battle now, im going to watch anime under my blankets while eating snacks
>1) Your grandparent's regiment and related links if possible
I dunno :(
>2) Battles they fought in
Well I know one fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And another was involved in the liberation of Dachau.
>3) Whether or not they survived and what they did after the war
Both survived, both worked in manufacturing.
1)Don't know the regiment
2)Fought in Albania and was eventually captured by the Germans somehow
3)Survived, kept his job as a farmer and died in the mid 90's
1. 65th Infantry Division (Borinqueneers)
2. Island hopping campaing
3.Carpenter (Survived the war)
Where were your grandparents from?
You live in Italy now but your grandparent was an enemy of the Germans which is why I ask.
>1) Regiment
I just know grandpa was a Drill Sergeant in the Marines in the Pacific campaign
>2)
Okinawa
>3) Survival
Survived, met Grandma who was a Medic while over there as well, went to the Midwest together and had 10 kids. Played a lot of bowling until they died.
Don't know the exact units but one of my grandpas was an artillery officer in France and Germany, while the other one was a truck driver for the Army Air Force in North Africa and Italy. They both lived and went on to be successful in academia and the propane business respectively
Grandfather on father's side fought for the US Army. Was in the Normandy landing. He died before I was born but apparently once faced down a German tank on foot and lived. Survived the war, stayed in the military afterward.
Grandmother on dad's side was a German, died last year. Her brother fought for Germany and was at Stalingrad. He survived. She told me many times about how two different Americans tried to machine gun her (a teenage girl) during the war, and how she had to dodge Russian rapists after the war.
My mom died before I got to know her, but I think both her parents were in the war but were medics or orderlies or something, which was I think where they met. I don't know much about them.
My grandparents were italian. After the Allied forces landed in Sicily a civil war started between Italians loyalists and Italians who were fighting with allies.
Our king sided with the Allies so the Germans simply killed/captured the forces from our regular army when possible and deported them.
US Navy LCI (L) 78
Aleutian operations
Invasion of Kiska, 15 August 1943 Tinian capture and occupation, 24 to 28 July 1944
Marshall Islands operation;
Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January to 8 February 1944 Western Caroline Islands operation;
Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October 1944
Marianas operation;
Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June to 28 July 1944 Okinawa Gunto operation;
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 25 March to 14 June 1945
Came back home and worked as an electrical engineer for the DoD.
Still alive but has dementia so I pretend hes dead.
20th brigade
Seige of Tobruk
Injured, shot in the lung and hand
Returned home and worked as a boilermaker
father's father - did something in the merchant marines
father's mother's father - police officer in breslau, germany, become a soldier in 1945 because the russians were coming. was a prisoner of war until 1948 or something. i dont ask about it because it upsets my grandmother
other people in my family were farmers and didn't do shit
My granddad even got locked up.
He kept asking the American soldiers for chocolate until they locked him up in the closet :^)
>Royal Fusiliers Company Z
>Battle of Anzio
>The high command took muh daddy from me.
The nazi tried to kill my grandfather but he managed to escape from the truck they put him on, does that count?
WW2 was 70 years ago
That's 3 generations worth l don't think anyone here's grandfather fought in the war, maybe their great grandfather
Does fighting for the Axis count?
>tfw both my great grandfathers fought tooth and nail against the japs in the Philippines just to have their descendent living out his weeb fantasies in Japan and probably marrying a Japanese girl
>1.)Regiment
He was a doctor and lieutenant in some Army regiment, not sure which regiment.
>2.)Battles they fought in
Western Europe campaign: Italy
>3.)Whether or not they survived and what they did after the war
He survived and took an Englishwoman as his wife and they went back to USA to have kids, my dad and his siblings.
great uncle was a test pilot during ww2 and died in a crash when testing an aircraft
great grandpa did aerial recon in the pacific
Both fought on the eastern front.
One was 18 and the other one 17 when they got drafted.
Never met the austrian one because he died of cancer in the 60s.
The german one died in 2006 and never really talked about the war or his inpriosonment, but you sure could tell that he got influenced by it.
fought nazis in poland
lost 3 fingers
Sorry my mother gave birth to me at the age of 39. So I guess for most people on this site it's great grandfather.
i had 2 great grandfathers fight in WW2, one on Nazi side and the other on Soviet side, both survived and never were in prison
My grandfather fought in the winter war and in the continuation war, no idea what he did or where, he refused to talk about it. He was a gommunist though.
half russian here (the french part collaborated with the nazis)
1) don't know
2)"liberation" of Warsaw
3) he pretended to be dead during 3 days and he stayed a farmer after that
1. Seaforth Highlanders
2. Fought on every major campaign front of the war.
3. Served in Burma after WW2 and worked in the police force after that.
1. Don't know the division. Navy.
2. Battle of Iwo Jima. Ocean-going tug used to clear landing craft wreckage of
For the beach to make room for new landing craft during the assault.
3. He survived. Was a farmer.
One night in Iwo Jima, the Japanese launched a massive Kamikazi assault. The next morning they found a Zero floating near their boat. They made a dagger out of the scrapped parts from the plane, and I think it gets passed down to me when my father dies.
Yes of course.
5 of my great grandfathers fought for the Yugoslav partisans against the Nazi occupation, 2 of them died.
My grandparents were both in the SS. Grandpa on my maternal side lived but never talked about it, and my paternal grandpa died fighting the bolsheviks in 1945
1) RAAF and then marines later on(didn't talk about the second one).
2) Fuck me that's a long list but the big one was a rescue op after hiroshima. Kept flying back and forth looking for an American(?) that was behind enemy lines in Japan.
3) Kind of. He got shrapnel in the head that wasn't treated properly and died of cancer from it later on.
Everyone was up in arms over him getting the purple heart as an Aussie. 70 years later it's still in the works -_-. App the brits are mad that it didn't go to a bong or some shit.
A swede-free thread, nice
>regiment
Was very quiet about it, only know what happened because he kept his medals and a newspaper article about it in a case
>what he did
He was a medic on Iwo Jima. He got his jeep blown up but got out alright, started operating on the injured while under fire. Got shot in the leg and got a bronze star for his actions.
>what he did after
He survived and healed fully, became a podiatrist and started the business that my dad ran and I run today.
Grandpas brother, founder of SNSP (Svenska nationalsocialistiska partiet, Swedish national socialist party)
My grandparents where farmers so they didn't go to war, people still need to eat.
>jager regement
>walked in to russia and helped throw out the germans
>shot in the shoulder, survived went back to his farm
1)I don't remember
2)I've never had the chance to know it, the only thing I know is that he was in Russia.
3)He survieved, during the winter he cut the stomach of an horse and slept inside of it to avoid the cold.
Great grandfather, 6th division IR 16 battle of Narvik
All I know is he was an MP and he did see action towards the end. He had to deal with some loyalist hold outs or somthing. Thats all I know. He passed away when I was yong. WE have his photos of mass graveyards and war stuff.
I had a great grandfather that was in WWI. He was a field medic and scout. We still have his gasmask, med bag, and uniform.
Chinese master race passing through.
1. My grandfathers half/brother.
2. He fought at the Battle of the Bulge.
3. Died during the first German bombardment.
Fought for the RAF. Got shot down by the Germans, and got placed in Stalag Luft III.
Was a part of the great escape and made it as far as Denmark before him and his buddies got caught by Gestapo.
The males too? shirkers
>he cut the stomach of an horse and slept inside of it to avoid the cold.
Based survival tactics right there. Try that these days and the fucking greens'd lynch you.
Were they shot?
>82nd Airborne
>Bloody Anzio
Survived, wounded witn three shots to the ancle and calf. Went on to work paper pushing for the Treasury.
Lives with the senpai today, 94.
Grandpa was a Britbong
Served in the 7th Armoured Div. in North Africa, Italy, and finally Northern Germany
My grandfather's brother fought in the saving Private Ryan battle. I don't know where that was. When it was over he had to collect body parts with a bag.
idk he was captured by russians and went insane, fun times
>North Africa, Italy, and finally Northern Germany
There are no brakes on the fucking 7th armoured.
Shitty phone typos.
Link btw
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/82nd_Airborne_Division
>Royal Navy Sub Lieutenant
>Barely saw active combat
>Managed to lose a great deal of sanity, returned home and sold the family mansion for a fraction of its value to a Navy friend as soon as he got back
Have no idea what happened but it probably wasn't good.
1) Pic related
2) Never involved in any battles
3) Survived, had two daughters, became millionaire through saving and working like crazy
i have a cemetery in my city built by captured hungarians.
Grandfather was a ball turret gunner for the USA in the European theatre. Everyone else BTFO, unless we're talking Marines those guys are great.
right you are cunt
My great grandpop fought in the pacific, he has shown me medals he personally ripped off the torsos of dead Japanese soldiers as well as pictures he took of Japanese hanging off sides of ships. He used to tell me how much he couldn't sleep after all the people he had to kill and I always felt so bad for him. I have a lot of respect for him, just a shame the war had to happen.
Indeed.
He (and me) was also related to the Norwegian NS parties grand secretary/cultural minister, aka Vidkun Quislings right hand man.
Pic related.
During the occupation my grandfather and his older sister would nag the german pioneer-squaf interned in their basement for "bonbons". Also some Italian among the pioneers would make funny faces making everyone lmao'ing.
My great grandfather was a tank commander. Eventually ended up in one of the few tigers. Grandfather was in vietnam as a recon marine. I betrayed their legacy and became and engineer. Though if the war ever does break out I'll go for marksman or "sniper".
My grandfather was an engineer in the RAF aged 16 in 1945 before the end of the war, continued to serve for 35 years and flew an atom bomb over the Gulf.
1) a. REME on fathers side army.mod.uk
b. Mothers side - had a job developing RADAR and radio-based navigation technology, but was nominally in the RAF because of the RADAR connection.
2) a. North Africa '41-'42, Italy '43 and France late '44
b. unsurprisingly, never saw action. Also worked as a reserve fireman for the town he was based in.
3) Both survived, died 1977 and 2006 respectively.
Another interesting fact, my great uncle on my mothers side was put in prison on a warship from June 3rd '44 until after D-Day as he was a signaler, and had been sending classified messages about the invasion. He was locked up to prevent him telling anyone what he had been sending, and may have been one of the last people in the country to be told when the invasion had actually happened!
My grandpa, all summed up here.
My grandfather (dads sode) served on the USS Hudson for the duration of the war. He was at Bougainville, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima.
destroyerhistory.org
He later became a deputy sheriff, retiring as a lieutenant commander. He golfed nearly every day before and after his shift, eventually becoming a club pro at one of the local courses. He has a statue and a memorial bench at the golf course paid for by anonymous donors after his death.
Miss you grandpa.
Sorry, didn't see the three Qs
1) Never asked him, was too young at the time to know what that was
2) Okinawa
3) Definitely survived, after the war was over he gambled a lot and struck it big, but eventually lost it all. Now he just kinda lives with my great aunt and plays online bingo.
According to my grandpa all he did was get drunk and get into fights on a minesweeper ship. He refused all his medals and awards due to this.
He just worked for the railroad all his life like my dad.
Normandy, my dude.
The fact that you don't know thst is sad desu
Does guerilla warfare count?
great grandfather was Italian soldier who deserted his post and fled here. I know nothing else
1) Was a high ranking officer, though I don't remember exactly who.
2) Reached Berlin.
3) Survived, though became deaf because of a grenade explosion. Today he turned 93, god bless him.
My grandad kept a few brits and Americans as pets. Still alive to this day cock blocking English teachers in bars
All the real men died in WWII if your grandparent survived WWII he was a coward.
Marines in the Pacific. Pushing towards Japan when we finally bombed them. He didn't talk much, but I know he was at Midway, Wake Island, as the fleet moved west.
My grandfather was in Pearl Harbor
Jew Hunter
1) No idea
2) he was on the front in the winter war, not sure where. in the continuation war he was at least in the battle for Hanko and later garrisoned on Suursaari, unsure about other stuff.
3) Survived. Became a functioning alcoholic and mailman.
That would imply your parents were MIA during the Emu War, correct?
kek, still has the spirit
If he fought he fought. Doesn't matter how or for who he did it mate. Any nazi/jap combat works for me.
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>Japanese Grandfather was one of the last honor guard samurai to serve under the emperor
>After WW2 tries to overthrow
>Family escapes to Hawaii
>Meets German Grandfather serving for US military some time later
My other side is even funnier. I had family officers within the reich
Goose Squadron 408
I don't know, he loaded bombs onto planes. Other then that he almost never talked about the war, although he got his hand on a luger somehow.
Yup he survived. He became a forestry man.
My Great Grandpa fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Does that count?
Grandad retired a major from the air force. Served in ww2, korea, and Vietnam as a fighter pilot (he was like 5'6") and later commander.
I don't know what battles he fought in because he would never talk about it
Mine is dead now, didn't know him much. I'm told he used to dive onto the ground whenever he saw planes overhead, though. Sounded like he had a lonely life when he got back, from what people tell me about him. Jack, he was called.
My grandfather was killing Japs while your faggot grandpa's were jerking each other off to kangaroo porn.
survived, but caught by communists and imprisoned after the war en.wikipedia.org
Omaha beach, Normandy, 6th June 1944. Learn some fucking history you pathetic shit.
Both grandfathers are vets.
One was in the navy and served aboard a sub. His sub went on to capture the Japanese i-401 (some of you weebs know this sub from a recent anime). After the war, he became an engineer for a famous plane-maker.
My other grandfather was in the army. He also served in the pacific. He didn't talk much about it and he passed away when I was still very young. He went into the family business after the war.
Grandpa was a medic who fought in North Africa into Italy.
Two fucking Purple Hearts. A goddamn hero. And then Germany fucked up Western Europe two generations later without firing a shot
My grandpa loaded the planes that bombed behind enemy lines on D-Day.
>captured by Germans
>alcoholic, shitty father
>killed himself weeks before my parents' marriage
>
I've only ever known the "my wife's son" grandfather, but he's better than the one who committed suicide.
In that case then yeah, my grandfather fought japs.
He only fought in 1945 because the whole family was safe until the end of the war when they were executing people who could testify against officers.
>Granpa joins up early 1945, just when he became old enough
>Is shipped out to one of those Pacific hell islands
>Would have probably died storming Tokyo or some shit but TYBAB
>Goes home, marries, has a kid
>Reinlists, shipped to Alaska during Korean War to monitor Russian and Chinese airspace
>"Froze my balls off doing nothing" he would say
>Returns home after a few years and becomes a miner
Feels bad that granpa didn't really do much but feels glad he wasn't banzai charge fodder in Tokyo
Ancestors fought in WW1 and WW2, though I don't know where in detail, but they fought on the Western and Eastern Front in both wars.
Grandpa fought in the philippines
When MacAuthor returned
He drove landing craft
was sunk
then assigned to a gunner's position
Shot down a jap
End Story
My opa worked for the underground in the Netherlands.
He didn't talk about it much but before he died I asked him about it and dropped some pretty cool storys.
Tl;dr versions included him and hia brothers hijacking a German bus that was going around collecting Dutch men in order to force them to fight for them to get their brother off of it (he had 8 brothers total).
He also had a story about how one morning he was in a bad mood about some nazi bullshit (I think his sister was dragged from the home to be used as a cock sleeve or something) and some SS soldier was walking down the street by himself thinking he was king shit. So opa snuck up behind him and sucker punched him (he was a pro boxer) and then as he was telling me this story on virgin off before he could finish it saying I'm too young to hear the end of it. So he probably killed him or something.
Mine bombed the Japs on the Burmese Trail, I still have his Air force hat: based Grandpa giving the Gooks some DEATH FROM ABOVE!