You can only post in this thread if your grandparent fought in ww2- Banter edition

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

Those from previous thread exempt from answering.

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>Adolf Hitler
>Killed partisans and fought in Poland and sheit.
>He survived.

>shrapnel still comes out of his scalp from time to time
Keep it comin if you got anymore leafbro.
>MFW I feel bad for laughing but can't stop.

>Paternal Paternal Great Grandfather
RAF, I don't know what he did though.

>Paternal Maternal Great Grandfather
Engineer in the RAF.

>Maternal Paternal Great Grandfather
I believe he disarmed explosives in Burma.

>Maternal Maternal Great Grandfather
He was an Intelligence Officer at Scapa Flow.

I'm afraid all my grandparents were born in the 1930s/1940s.

polish second corps cassino front survived and worked in a mill, great grandfather was in house hold cavalry and was fighting nips somewhere also survived and was a landscape gardener.

Slitting throats sinds 1942

>Engineer in the RAF.
We got your scraps...
Still better than the average planes back then.
Fucking Spitfires and Meteors.

Grandfather Mother side
1.) 15th Army, dont know about his regiment
2.)
>Battle of Normandy
>Operation Queen
>Battle of Aachen
3.) He survived and was a POW for some time, after the war he continued his job as a Chocolatier in the 50's

My grandfather on my father side was like 5 at ww2 and didn't took part

My grandfather's (he was a kid then) brother fought in the 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht

My grandfather was a captain in the Wehrmacht, he fought in france and the eastern campaign. He was wounded in some 1944 cauldron battle and flown out as one of the last soldiers.
He lost one leg but drove hundreds of kilometers after the war to meet my grandmother. Pretty based
Sadly he died in the 70ies due to his injuries. Never met him

Technically no battles were involved directly that I know of.

>Paternal Paternal Great Grandfather
Survived the War. Worked as a plant attendant at the local water works. Died on his fifty eighth birthday from polycystic kidney disease.

>Paternal Maternal Great Grandfather
Worked at our local theatre hall as an electrician until he retired. Died when I was four. He had lost his father during WW1. Long history of military service dating back to the Napoleonic Wars.

>Maternal Paternal Great Grandfather
Died aged 60 from a heart attack, he set up a restaurant in London called the Magic Carpet, long since gone.

>Maternal Maternal Great Grandfather
Died in 1949 from a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. My grandmother was five. He was the bastard son of a decorated WW1 captain and a government clerk's daughter.

grandfather from west ukraine joined german army, I think it was the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

when it was clear that germany was losing he deserted and got picked up by the british and sent to england as POW

If you say so. I know more about my WW1 ancestors because the records are more readily available, otherwise I'd be able to tell you more about them. (I'm the family historian).

1. I don't remember what regiment he was in but he was there for D-day.
2. D-day and the battles fought afterwards
3. Yeah, he survived. Moved to Texas and started up a farm which eventually turned into an oil rig area. I still have his bayonet knife somewhere around. He stabbed a couple Germans with it.

My great grandfather was a American officer in the navy deployed in the pacific. Don't know about any battles tho, but I do have some cool stuff he brought back

additional war stories:

He led a squad in russia and returned as the only soldier due to the bad weather conditions. He was from pommerania though and I kind of used to harsh winters


After the war he was imprisoned for some time and some english officer asked him to hand over his german cross, he had lots of medals, but he refused.
Later an american officer asked the same, but just took it after he refused.

Grandfather served for the Germans in WW1, promoted to Luftwaffe General in 1944 or 1945, captured as POW, survived until the 60s

Great grandfather, RA soldier in the Pacific. No idea what regiment. I know he hated Japs, I think he kept ears or fingers.

What about Korea? My Grandpa was just barely too young for WW2.

Popa fought in WW2
Met an aussie nurse in Europe and brought her back to leafland
Behold I am created, the ultimate shitposting mix

Mwf my gramps was literally Hitler rip grampa

This country's been gettin scraps for ages sadly. It's a running joke in our military.

Kinda sad how the Korean war was almost completely forgotten by so many people.

1) idk 4th army probable
2) All the way up to and including the siege of Odessa
3) yes, became a fisherman and lived in a comfy fishing village that later became a giant petrochemical town. Diet in his mid-late 80s

>"Police action"
FTFY

One grandpa commanded a torpedo squadron and sunk a jap ship
The other was a crew member on a bomber his cousin and uncle fought for Italy

Well in the west it sure is but its extremly present in asian media (especially in china)

Was for

I don't really know a whole lot about mine other than he was on a ship in the Pasific. The only part of the war he would talk about was the end. They had just gotten their winter cloths and had the orders in hand that they were to invade Japan's mainland. He still has that peice of paper and has often said dropping the bombs saved his life. Often has made me wonder if the atomic bomb is responsible for my existence and what I'll do for the world that will have made it worth it for all of those people to perish.

MFW everyone in my family were either too young or too old to participate in the war except one that was mobilized in 1939, sent to the maginot line then returned to the civil life after the defeat and chose to protect his son by living in the mountains where he could see the city's industries nearby being bombed by the allies at the end of the war

second corps grandad user again, for a lauogh google wojtek the bear for more info on what second corps were doing

Great-Grandfather fought in Winter War & Continuation war against the Soviets. Spent 8 years in the Gulag building railroads, escaped by jumping out of a train and SKIING back to Finland when he was being moved to Murmansk.

my grandfatehr served on this ship, survived two torpedos from a uboat while in port. He was a communications officer

Grandpa was a teacher and he didn't fight in ww2, but great-grandpa fought in ww1, and was a POW in Siberia.

what about if my great grandparent fought in WWI but my grandparent was too young to fight in WWII since he had 20 kids?

What has science done?!

>Be born and raise in East Tennessee
>Papaw thought we were fighting against the British over them harassing our shipping and the French for warmongering in Africa
>Gets letter in the mail stating hes been drafted
>Signed by Roosevelt.
>Papaw knows Hoover is still president.
>Papaw doesn't report to the draft board
>Papaw doesn't die fighting for the jews

1) Navigator - B17 - "I'll get by" - 95th bombardment group - 8th AF

2) Dresden, D-day (Calais diversionary bombing), Rome, Monte Cassino, Romanian oil fields, Berlin

3) Survived and created steel business that remains to this day.

>pic related

My grandfather fought in North Africa. He was Rhodesian.

>Greatest generation draft dodger

That's one amazing pic ! History like this is simply amazing !

grandparents regiment
>grandpa was a seabee (built runways and shit on pacific islands)
battles
>Guadal Canal, Saipan, Iwo Jima
did he survive
>yeah

Man that is awesome you have a photograph like that to remember him, We'll never be as interesting as our grandparents man

>Great Grandfather
Drove a tank in the Marines
>Battles
He was at Saipan and I know of no others
>Did he survive
Yes, he lived a long time. During the battle his tank hit a mine and it flipped over. He was stuck in there for like 3 or 4 days so he didn't actually see too much combat lol

1) not sure, infantry unit, front line, only one to survive in his group

2) Battle of the Bulge

3) yes. managed several factories ,got married and had three kids, in charge of a large jewelry company for the southeast. involved with a few different sales type jobs too I think.

dont have a military pic atm

Oldfag here. No grandparents, but Uncle flew one of these on operations in Italy.

Maternal great-grandfather
1) 1st or 3rd Hungarian Army
2)Eastern Front, retreating to the west when shtf to avoid the Soviets
3) POW in France (supposedly the worst), got lucky, worked at a farm, they wanted him to marry into the family. He declined, returned to Hungary just to realise his whole family died to an American air raid

Paternal great grandfather
1) Supppsedly batshit crazy, had visions of Virgin Mary leading his way. Also member and local leader of the Hungarian nazi party
2) When the Soviets got close he brought all boys from the Hungarian nationalist youth organisation from our village to Germany, supposedly to save manpower to defend the reich
3) Him and all the boys returned to the village alive and well, from the neighbouring village half of the boys between 14 and 20 got shot by the Soviets.
He became a social outcast in the communist era.

Yeah I love that pic. Only 2 pictured, my grandpa and the tail gunner survived the war.

forgot to add that my grandpa on my mother's side didn't go to war 1 he was a bit young but more importantly,bc as a farmer he was considered the "head supporter" of the family(mother+ siblings) since his dad died despite the fact that he was probably 17-18.
However my grandmas dad was drafted but bc he was old and,again,had a family with small children, he was regimented in the Jandarmerie and then probably to a field hospital.

After the war his mental state started to deteriorate probably shit he'd seen in the war with the eyes of an adult,all those young people suffering in the hospital .until he became mad,schizophrenia probably,got sent to the nut-hut then back home and died in his 60s only my mom remembers him but all his kids esp my grandma loved him more apparently he was a very good hearted man.

His wife(my great-grandma) got sent to prison after the war,only for a couple of months though so she was lucky to escape the full gulag camps,they said she intentionally rigged the accounting in the new local state farm collective,but of course that was a lie to jhide either incompetence or theft of the bosses,back then a denunciation=prison. I visited her a lot as a kid since my grandma and her lived in the same village,very smart woman even in her late 80s,insane memory told me a lot of stories and redpilled me about life a bit. Also very pious.

Sicily, Italy and Germany.
Fighting fascism all over

One joined the resistance after deserting in mid-1943

killed at least 3 kr*uts

was a leftist until his death

personally held essays about the benefits of diversity in his 80s

was active in West German politics

died a happy man

dont know about the other one

Funny story from my Great grandpa:
>His comrades are in a pub on the Eastern Front
>Everyone drunk
>a German unit also in the pub, they are also drunk as fuck
>For a mug of beer, the -supposedly- allied people start to argue with each other
>Cursing each other In Hungarian and German, no one understands a thing, people are screaming at each other at the top of their lungs'
>Pub brawl starts
>The next morning, a bunch of people are "Wounded In Action"

He stole them MP40 I still have it hidden somewhere. I regularly clean it and got some ammo for it in case if Gypsocalypse would happen.

my grandpa actually faught in ww 1.
He was in the trenches somewhere on the western front to france.
He was very young and when it was apperent that germany would loose they sent him and the other young conscripts to hold the lines, while everyone of rank grabbed their stuff and got the hell out of there without telling them :ll

dont know much details though since he died lonng time before he was born.

He was also in ww2, but just for a short time, because he had a big farm and agrocery store and they gave him leave to work his fields, since food is important in war times

My family last name is rose
It was changed from something else when they came over to Ellis island.
My uncle Charlie was a machine gunny when he came back he lost hearing in one ear from the gun.
He fought in ww2
After the war he joined the Irish mob

All I can find on google on mine but my uncle has heaps.

>cassino front

Maybe your grandpa/great grandpa fought with mine.

Some of my great grandpa's stories of the british mine-patrol squad in WWII:
>Mine detectors were few and far between, and in order to save entire regiments from being obliterated, they'd spread out and 'mine sweep'
>Poking the ground with their bayonettes...
>Death on this job were described in the most stunning way
>"You hear a 'boom' and look over, and your friend is just gone"

>Based Great G-Pa also stormed Monte Cassino, as a mine detector captain/corporal(idk which desu)
>Probably right on the front lines in a hellish clusterfuck of barbed wire, scaling cliffs with machine guns at top
>Entered the battle with 11 other officers of the same position (captain/corporal/whatever)
>Returned from battle with 4 of those officers including him
>Heard this from my Greatgrandma, Great Grandpa went silent when I asked him about it
>Looked off into the distance, eyes going super misty..

I can't imagine what he was thinking.
>It was an absolute nightmare
>Less than half of commanding officers return
>Probably even less of the regulars
>all dying within sight, from totally unexpected explosive mines underfoot
>Great G-Pa must continue walking
>Great G-Pa must continue poking the ground with your bayonet
>Artillery, ship and machine gun fire all around
> Great G-Pa must continue walking TOWARDS the line of fire
Not many things more based than surviving that, lads. Pic related is an estimate of the tier of cajones he had.
>RIP

Heroes paid the ultimate price user. God bless your family! Here's a small vid about the legacy of our Finnish veterans. Subtitled in English, I highly recommend this for anyone interested in history. Always makes me tear up:

youtube.com/watch?v=hFtcERLYbDA

>tfw father's father fought in wwii and got silver star
>tfw father's brother fought in wwii and commanded a sub
>tfw father was in army reserves and became a lieutenant colonel
>tfw their swords and flags will pass down to me and i was never more than a boy scout

not sure about his regiment but I all know he was a pilot in the navy was sent to pacific and ended up marrying a gook in HK my grandma god bless her soul

Gramps was Italian, don't know where he served. Would be gramps on the other side was a kamakaze pilot so he died. Obaasan married an American air force officer after the war.

Well, here we go:
Mother's mother first husband: Fought as an officer, died somewhere in Ukraine in 1943, body was never found.

Mother's mother cousin: Doctor in Auschwitz

Mother's father: Was a medic, got captured by the allies, I don't knwo any details

Father's father: Was drafted in 1943, fought in France, was wounded and captured by the allies. Returned a few years later.

Father's father father: Was drafted in 1943, KIA in France in 1944

Father's mother brothers: All four of them fought, by a miracle three survived. One died near Stalingrad. He was the driver of a Sturmgeschütz and got a headshot when he got out of his vehicle to shoot at the Ivan with his kar98

My great grandpa fought in Brusilov offensive. He was also conscript since 1911 and escorted caravans on the silk road - I shit you not.

>had visions of Virgin Mary leading his way
I didn't expect that

>maternal grandfather born 1911 in Germany
>joined the luftwaffe sometime in the 30s
>fucked off to Mexico after war
>married spic woman and lived the rest of his days working his farm
>died before I was born so ill never know his stories or what happened to his medals and uniform

1) Flying Tigers - 3rd Squadron - radioman

2)Defense of Rangoon, various skirmishes in China

3)Survived - had 6 children - became a drunkard and died in the 90s

>"Wounded In Action"
KEK'd hard.

grandmother's uncle good enough? Died in his tank.

Grandfather was drafted by mussolini and was sent to africa.
He got a front row seat to Erwin rommel chase the Americans with his tanks.
He managed to make it home and helped rebuild his town since the Americans and English bombed it into a ruin.

Korean conscripted to Imperial Japanese Army. Fought some hopeless last-ditch battles in Manchuria in late 1944-45 against the non-stop Soviet meat grinder.

His unit eventually surrenders and goes home.

Country splits into two. He is the eldest son of a moderately-wealthy family with property in North Korea (execution) so he says goodbye to family for the last time and escapes to South with nothing. Joins the ROK marines. Fights entire Korean War. Lives.

Runs a business and created moderate wealth from literally nothing. Eventually murdered by eldest son who wanted his life insurance money (this happened while we were in America and they never told us). We broke all ties and communication with that bastard bitch.

My paternal grand grand grandfather escaped from the WW1 and ran to Argentina, he was italian. Does that count?

brah that's probably want they wanted. My grandpa went to war and hopes the US will never get involved in a huge scale war again.

My British great-grandfather fought in the Philipines as an Artillery radio man or something.
He eventually got captured and sent to a labour camp.
When the war ended, he was so skinny he had to spend a whole year in America because the government didn't want them to come back looking like skellies for morale reasons.
Italian one almost got deported to Germany but a German soldier let him go at the last moment because my grandfather ran after him crying.

What really fucked me up was seeing my uncle in Nam. I miss him so much. He drank himself to death after the war.

Good enough. Any man that dies in battle for his people deserves respect. Hope he took out plenty of his enemies first.

How does it feel to be only half white?

>Luftshutz officer
>Pfalz Rheinland
>carpenter

Related:

He put in the effort. Good job.

Fun fact: iirc his son or grandson (father's side of the family is a bit dysfunctional so I know more anecdotes than actual family trees) is one of the most famous/infamous oligarchs in Hungary

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Grandfather was an engineer in a Czechoslovak factory.

When Nazis took Czechoslovakia the factory was converted to build weapons and war equipment.
He said those were some of the most productive years and that the Nazi management was really efficient.

He also disliked Jews because his uncle tried to open a shoe repair business in town. However, nearly all the shops in town were owned by Jews and they would not let anyone else among them. At first they dissuaded him from open the store and later he was even threatened.
There was already a Jewish-owned shoe store in town and in the end the entire Jewish community bankrolled the owner to offer free shoe repair until they drove my grandpa's uncle out of business and completely bankrupted him and his family.

my grandpa was a paratrooper or something.
he died a couple years ago.
most of what I know about him is from stories. had a wicked handshake though.
I infer he was redpilled as fuck. ten kids on one income. those were the days.

My grandfather lost 3 brothers in the war.

Who was too young to go at first but then applied to the navy when he came of age. About 2 weeks before he was going to be sent aboard a naval vessel he was riding his bicycle and when his mother called him in for dinner he thought he'd ride around the block just once because it wouldn't be on the table yet and on the last corner fell off his bike and broke his arm.

He wasn't able to go overseas and join the good fight and it made him depressed. Eventually he healed and just 3 days before he was set to leave the vessel he was originially designated to and was about to board was sunk by a submarine and the entire crew died.

He still tried joinibg after that but the war ended. He always regretted not fighting when everyone else he knew did.

One of his brothers died in a jap pow camp in Sumatra and served at the sinking of the Bismark.

That's all I know.

Pic 1. A few pics about the Brother

My grandfather was part of the Bulgarian reserves in Greece and they were mainly responsible for digging trenches and so on in case of a need to pull the front line backwards. Does that count?

I didn't need this today. I have some pretty par the cour stories from his service.

Sure glad my grandpa didn't fight for the anglo jews

>against the Japs in Burma

Chair force

B25 ball turret gunner (manlets LMAO)

Survived. His plane was shot down over France. French resistance smuggled him to England. He became a firefighter and died of lung cancer like a boss.

> tfw you'll always be a vagina in comparison

Greatgrandfather*

Pic 2

Weak b8 my man. Have you done military service? Because I certainly have. Like all of us Finns. Second Lieutenant, Karelian artillery regiment, Second field artillery battery.

SO you think there's a ton of 35-40 year olds on Sup Forums?

Get out mudshit fuckface.

my grandfathers brothers fought in ww1 does that count?

Maternal grandfather

>POW camp administrator
>Played cards and gambled with the German officers

Pic 3

>6th armored division part of the Third Army

>Normandy, liberation of Buchenwald

>survived to marry and raise 5 children and be a helluva grandfather

He was born to a first generation Irish immigrant family in 1918. Because his family was too poor to pay for college, he received a full scholarship via academics and lettering in every sport offered. Shortly after graduation, and after receiving a job, he enlisted to fight for his country. He returned home, never spoke of the war, and raised a beautiful and successful family of 5. My grandmother was diagnosed with a degenerative disease like Alzheimers on steroids, which he expended most of his retirement funds to provide in home nursing and care for her. He died at 88 in 2006 having never retired. I was 14 at the time, and have only recently realized how much of a hero he was.

Finnish forces, Päämajan Kaukopartio

Winter war and Continuation war

Took some shrapnel from a hand grenade to the chest and died in a few days after he made to a field hospital. Survived the shrapnel, cause of death was infection.

I'm 26 and my grandfather joined right when it ended and never got deployed.