Any Wwii History Fans In Here?, Anyone have relatives that took part in the war? |
Crazy eh?!
He has some great stories of his time, but also some not so great ones, though he doesnt mind telling them, I think he's 87 now, its tragic to think that we will be the last generation to actually be able to speak to people who served in the 2nd WW before it passes into the history books. 
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Sep 21 2009, 09:37 PM
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My father was too young to serve (by maybe 5 years or so, give or take a year of lying about his age) but my mother's parents worked at the Naval yard in Philadelphia. They didn't have any good stories.
My father's father, however, was a surgeon that volunteered to join a british field hospital unit during world war ONE(!) some time --if I remember correctly-- before the USA actually got involved. I never met him, but apparently he was a rather gruff sort of fellow. He lost a lung to the mustard gas during the war, and kept on smoking his chesterfields for another 30 years. I personally met a couple of the men from the 101st airborne division (506th PIR, E company even!) that were still living before I left Philadelphia. Another old friend of the family served in the 82nd during WWII and he was quite a character. He was 87 the last time I saw him, yet the guy could pass for being in his late 60's. I didn't get much from him in the way of stories, I'm sorry to say. Best thing to do for these, aside from reading the works of Stephen Ambrose, is to watch the history channel around anniversary dates (pearl harbor day, d-day, etc) and see if they're replaying all those hours of interviews they collected from veterans. So thankful that they were able to capture so much on video. -------------------- ::jafomatic
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Sep 21 2009, 10:13 PM
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I dont know anyone who participated in the war but i was very interested to read about the war when i was in school.....Especially the war in Russia
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Sep 21 2009, 11:29 PM
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My mother's experience predates WWII a little as she experienced the Long March indirectly as a child in China back in the early 30s. Her and her family fled to Kowloon and Hong Kong and were there when it was invaded.
My paternal grandfather started as a warrant officer in the Irish Guard and ended the war as an officer. My father was too young for WWII but served in the British army through the Suez crisis and later elsewhere. My wife's father and grandfather were navy and served mainly in the N Atlantic in WWII (cadet and rear admiral - her father, the one who was a cadet, went on to serve as a captain on HMY Britannia); her maternal grandfather was a major in the army in India, her great uncle a major and her uncle a major general. Various members have military honours but again none of the family like to talk to talk about their war experiences. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Sep 22 2009, 01:44 AM
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QUOTE (Praetorian @ Sep 21 2009, 02:30 PM)  p.s. This is not a discussion for judgment or politics...merely for people like me who are history buffs! I don't know how you do that. I doubt there is anyone here that has read nearly the amount of scholarly WWII history I have. There could be someone, but I don't meet people often that have. But just about anything you say or write is going to be controversial. Primarily because mainstream history is so mythological. I will say, you really can't take too seriously accounts and stories unless you can cross check them from several angles to validate them. They are probably at best only partially true, and probably leave out a lot of the context. Stories just change within days of the events, with few exceptions. People just don't tell the truth. Often they even start to believe stuff that you know cannot be possibly true. I read this one book a few months ago that was a diary of a gunner on a bomber of his 25 missions. So that is bound to be pretty good, because he wrote it immediately. But you cannot trust stuff that people tell later on. As I said, they themselves may even believe it, and it probably is not true, or only partially true. I read a few books by a Brit, Max Hastings, this summer, one on the Last year of the war in the pacific, the other on the Korean war. I really like him, and found him convincing. He has another on the last year in Europe, I have it but have not read it yet. I will link them. The book on Japan was real good, best I have read on that subject by a long shot. I really recommend this author, history that is presented is generally so mythological, he is one that not only is convincing, he illustrates how history should be viewed by a historian, which most fail to comprehend. For one thing, the Cardinal rule, you have to forget everything that has happened since the time of the events, and view it in that context, to understand history. People tend to judge history by current standards, and they refuse to view it from the perspective of the actors at the time, so they make judgments, judging them as if they lived today, and knew everything that we have learned over the past 60+ years. http://www.amazon.com/Retribution-Battle-J...bxgy_cc_b_img_b http://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Germany-1...9972&sr=8-1 |
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Actually, this inspired me to do a little bit of online searching and to my surprise I found a website dedicated to the vessel. If only my dad was still around, he would have LOVED to have seen the website and the association.
 
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