Relatives that went to war
 

Again, this is probably a repeat of a thread that's been before, but i missed it, as i'm sure a lot did. This is to post stories, or even just acknowledgements of fathers, grandfathers, etc that went to war.

My Grandfather joined the Australian army in 1941 and served in the Pacific theatre with the 2/2 Pioneer btn. He got malaria a few times and his battalion actually got lost for two weeks once oOo:
Considering he was 16 at the time, it was a fair effort :P

anyone else got any?

my great uncle was in the 8th air force as a b17 engineer and got a couple medals

3 uncles fought for the nazi's one of them a nazi general. 3 other uncled fought for allies.

My Great uncle was a B-17 tailgunner 8th Airforce, one day he was sick and could'nt go on a mission...he found out later that day that his plane was shot down and no one survived.

A 3rd cousin of mine was a P-38 pilot Based in England flew mainly ground attack missions and flew cover on D-Day. After his tour was over, he requested to be sent to the Pacific but just before his group was to fly some of the first jets against the Japs, we dropped the A-bomb.

Another of my Great uncles was a Navy SeaBee in the Pacific, doing road work,working on landing strips etc...

Other - I'm enlisted, so if they want me to go, I go. oOo:

I've had too many relatives in wars to list, all of them were officers and saw battle though...grandfather fought on nearly all fronts of Western Front....North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Ardennes, Remagen, Germany

Great Grandfather was in the Irish Gurads and fought the Nazi Scum

[quote="=BA-MF=LoneGunner65=2nd=c":7720f]3 uncles fought for the nazi's one of them a nazi general. 3 other uncled fought for allies.[/quote:7720f]

you mean German?

My Grandad was in the "ramcke" Brigade in the Fallschirmjager. He fought in the eastern and western fronts, but never got to go to Africa. He made 13 combat jumps.

my grand father was in the Royal Engineers aswell

I had a Great Grandfather in WWI. He was a member of the Australia Light Horse (cavalry) and saw service in Palastine and Gallipoli, he was bayonetted in the leg and after recovering and on leave he broke his leg in a football match in Palastine. He was then medically discharged. My Aunt's father fought as a German soldier in WWI on the Western Front.

WWI my Mother had two Uncle's who both fought in New Guinea as part of the Australian force that was assemlbed before the Middle East troops arrived. One of them was shot crossing a creek by a Japanese sniper three months before the war ended. They were on a mission of no military signifcance....ordered by the Americans who just wanted the Australian soldiers "out of the way".

Thanks Uncle Sam!!!

If I was old enough I would be signing up, if Canada went to war or America i'd be there, least I can do for such a great Country,(both Canada and America)

All my family going back to the begining including Me! We just like to fight, whoever, whenever. Bring it on! We were everything from enlisted to Officer.
From the Revolutinary War to Desert Storm.

I'd only fight if the well-being and life was directly threatened by something, I wouldn't join the Military either I'd get a bunch of buddies and go viet-cong on their ass.

If Australia was directly threatened, like we were in 1942, by the Japs, then i would most certainly join up. However, i have no intention of Joining up for the express purpose of going over to Iraq, or North Korea, or Iran, or whoever else George Bush has a grudge against, just to make him feel better.
*Captain Wilkins longs for an Australian Government that wasn't the US's lapdog*

Yeah, Chretien has his ass so far up Cheney's ass he has to.... *insert witty comment here*

If it takes another two years to flare up and they start a draft. Id be a potential candidate. But at teh moment Im to young ot go to war. And If I ever did I would not want to be on the front line fighting. I would rather be a Copter or plane pilot. And my Granddad was either in the crew of a B-25 or did repair work on them. I would ask him but he died a while ago. He also helped build some of the Rockets that got us into space. My dad was a medic in Vietnam and thats all I know about that. Just the way he acts when He sees war movies (He asks if I can watch them some where else or change the channel and see if a Foot ball game is on) tells me he didnt like what he saw[img]http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/contrib/corky/smilies18.gif[/img]

One of my grandads was a ship builder, the dock yards were covered in those anti- aircraft attack balloons but the axis didnt ever try and bomb them - too far away. the closet they ever got was trying once to bomb the Forth Rail Bridge a mile down river, unsuccessfully but the RAF saw them off. "jolly good chaps" the RAF boys were cool:
He did tell us he saw some dog fights though and the locals in the village would pour out into the streets and watch, and cheer as the enemy planes got shot down.
My other grandad was a forrester and so didnt get called up either.
The only relative i had who fought in war was my great uncle from my dads side who was tail gunner in a stirling bomber - i posted on this site before about how his captain saved the crews life at the expense of his own and was awarded the posthumous VC.

I've already posted my Familys military history in another thread... but we've all fought for the mighty red while and blue.

I'll soon to be enlisting myself...

I lost 1 uncle in WW2, on in Korea. I've had 6 other relatives serve, moslty AirForce and Navy, one CIA.

Both of my grandfathers flew B-24 Liberators from 42/43 to the end of the war.

I'm in Reserves, so if I got called up, then i'd have to...but it wouldn't be combat unless it was like WWIII. I'd get activated to do homeland security etc.

But if my country was threatened, I would for sure transfer and try to catch the next plane to ______ to kill some ______.

[quote="Captain Wilkins":36827]If Australia was directly threatened, like we were in 1942, by the Japs, then i would most certainly join up. However, i have no intention of Joining up for the express purpose of going over to Iraq, or North Korea, or Iran, or whoever else George Bush has a grudge against, just to make him feel better.
*Captain Wilkins longs for an Australian Government that wasn't the US's lapdog*[/quote:36827]
Agree 100%. We need to focus our relations on Asia far more than the US because like it our hate it Australia is part of Asia and there are many gripes I have about America, her government and her policies. However, Australia does need a great and powerful friend and before the US it was Britain but after WWII it became America. Also the insurance policy idea sent Australian troops to Vietnam which meant dead Australia soldiers for some gay cause hake:

Kind of awkward how US wants to go to war with Iraq and not N.Korea when N.Korea is far a bigger threat and far more tyrannical government than that of Iraq or Iran. Probably theres no ppprrreeeecccciiioouuusssss OIL in N.Korea so if it aint got oil then there aint money for George's Coporations.

no.

George is the puppet of Cheney and Rumsfield actually make that his entire staff and his staff are puppets of oil company executives.

Hey come on guys, this thread was going good, so shut up with this crap.

Not bad. It took almost two pages before this went off topic.

Back on, I never said in my last post wether i would enlist or not...

I would if scotland, or even britian was under attack, but i dont intend to be a pawn because of someone elses problems.

Yes sorry people. Tell us more war stories and your views on war today.

My deceased grandfather was in WWII

My Grandfather was a footslogger for the 2nd ID from 1943 thru the end of the war. He is still disturbed by images that try to recreate the beaches of DDay. (such as the beginning of Saving Private Ryan) Trying to talk to him about the war is like asking a tree questions about leaves. All he will say is he had many freinds that were killed, yet that they didn't die for nothing. He is quite set in his ways and beleives (like me) that these newer generations have grown soft and comfortable and don't have a reason to die. he says "Every Generation before the hippie generation had a reason to fight and die. Those hippies, moaning about peace, ruined a good fighting country by brainwashing it into beleiving that it should only talk, not fight. Now, these generations are being raised by those same hippies, and these generations will die for a dollar...not for a freind. I have a good bugger to go back to Ireland as this country has turned to pure shite."

My soon to be Grandfather in-law was 82nd Airborne. He was captured somwhere in Normandy on june 8th 1944 after being seperated from his group for 2 days and after he had killed 2 nazis. He escaped 2 months later and rejoined his company in time for market garden. He lasted the entire war with no wounds aside from cuts and scrapes. He is still very proud of his 82nd experience and has many souveniers from the war (including several nazi helmets, armbands, knives, etc.) He still skydives once a year (at 80 something years old) and loves movies that recreate the war. especially saving private ryan. but he wasnt on the beach.

had a uncle killed in korea by a sniper the day before he was set to ship out ... granddad flew in the air-force in WW2 mostly he was station in burma .

My family is mostly dedicated to service in the Royal Navy.

On my fathers side.
My Great Great Grandfather was swept off the rigging of a ship.
My Great Grandfather was blown up on HMS India in WW1.
My Grandfather served aboard HMS Vesper in World War 2, he joined the navy aged 8 after his father died. He had a very eventful war, he was involved in the D-Day landings, he was sunk 3 times and he spent 21 days in a rowing boat adrift at sea, surviving off flying fish.
He was also captured by the Spanish but he managed to escape, evade capture again by hiding out in the Spanish hills and eventually make his way right across Spain to Gibraltar. He used to tell my dad stories of when he was on the Arctic & Atlantic convoys and the German planes would come along and strafe the whole ship. He would hide behind a round metal thing on the ship (I forget the name) and as the plane turned he would creep around it so as to remain hidden from site. In the Arctic convoys it was so cold that the ice on his ship would build up in so many layers that it was in danger of overturning.
Like some people have already said, as a vet he didn't talk much about the war, I know he saw some terrible things, people on fire from the oil tankers that got torpedoed, (the Arctic convoys weren’t allowed to stop and pick up survivors) etc.

I can't help but feel proud of him as I write this though...

I wish I could have met him.

My father's father was a pilot for the Tuskegee Airmen
My mother's father was a mechanic for the Tuskegee Airmen
My father is an Air Force Lt. Colonel retired
My uncle is a Major in the US Army
My brother graduated from the Air Force Academy last year and completed flight school today and is awaiting assignment

as you can see my family is mostly in the Air Force

My Granfather was in the 13th Airborne in France. Luckily the war ended before they were activated. But he did go through the Korean war. He was a heavy machinegunner(Browning .50cal) He never really talked about it, in fact i never knew he was in it at all until a few years ago. He did say that one time he fired a .30call from his hip, which i thought was cool.

I would only join if they get rid of the anthrax, smallpox, blah, blah, blah vaccinnes. I have no intention of dying from a fucking needle, it's a waste of my talents.

my Grandpa was in the polish army and faught the nazis