My grandfather served in World War II and i was wondering if anyone was related to anyone who lived or died in

Question

the World War II and how were you related, and when did the person die and It was my great grandfather. He lived through it.

Answer 1

my father served in wwii in the artillery. he participated in six campaigns, including the normanday invasion, battle of the bulge, north africa, and sicily. he received the bronze star for courage under fire, plus several other medals. he died just two months ago at the age of 88. what a timely question, coming on veterans day. bless both of our relatives for their great service to this country.

Answer 2

My Grandfather was a B-17 bomber pilot. During the summer of 1943 he flew 22 bombing missions on targets like Ploesti, Romania, - Schwienfurt, Germany - and Augsburg, Germany. On the 23rd mission, the plane was hit repeatedly by German BF-109 fighters and was no longer flyable. The nine other bomber crewman were able to bail out while my grandfather attempted to hold the plane steady. But a minute later the B-17 went in to a flat spin. The centrifugal force of the spin would have pinned the pilot against the cockpit wall and unable to move. My Grandfather went down with the plane. A good friend and neighbor of his told me the story in 1990.

Answer 3

My Grandfather lived through World War 2 and played quite an important part. He was a trained paratrooper and also part of the 8th kings royal irish hussars, a tank regiment that fought across France int o Germany liberating Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

After the war finished he was stationed in Germany until 1947 and also took part in the Berlin parades in 1946.

Sadly my Grandfather is no longer with us but he is always in my thoughts...you can see the full story of my Grandfather and Bergen Belsen concentration camp below

Answer 4

All of my great-uncles by blood rather than marriage who were of age served in WWII and survived. My youngest living great-uncle by marriage lost his elder brother Billy in a B-24 crash in Papau New Guinea - the wreckage was only recovered in 2005 and identified in 2006. My mother's father attempted to enlist in the Navy but was discharged due to a heart defect. My father's father did not serve, but my father's mother worked at the Army Depot in a civilian job. My great-grandfather on my mother's side was an Army aviation engineer who served out the war at what is now Wright-Patterson AFB. He was involved in the creation of the Air Force and in the re-engineering of planes for the purpose of Jimmy Doolittle's raid over Tokyo.

Answer 5

I was born in 1945 during the world war II , so I am related to all the persons or warriors died during the second world war. Is it not true?
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Answer 6

My dad joined the Oklahoma National Guard in 1940. Just after he joined they mobilized the national guard and he spent a year on active duty in the field artillery and was involved in the Louisiana maneuvers and then discharged. In 1942, two weeks before I was born, he was drafted at the age of 31. He ended up in the Army Air Corps. He did not see me until I was a year old when my mom took off from my Grandparents place to catch up with him. We spent the war in Florida and California. He was exempted from overseas duty due to a perforated eardrum. Even though, he almost ended up in the South Pacific. He was attached to a P-61 Black Widow training squadron. He ended up crew chief for the squadron commander that wanted him to deploy as his crew chief and said he would take care of his ear problem. The war ended before the squadron left the states.
My uncle, my moms brother, fought in the Philippines and was in the landings at Leyte Gulf.

Answer 7

Like most of the Europeans, I have many relatives who lived through WWII. The only active participant was my grandfather who was an officer in Lithuanian armored unit when Russia invaded. He was taken prisoner. That's pretty much all I was able to get out of him - he didn't like to talk about those dark times.

Answer 8

My father was a Medic in WWII. He died about 20 years ago. We could never get him to talk about the war. My Dad was always quiet and unfortunately drank a lot. He did have pictures of Russian Jews which had been slaughtered by Nazis. The pictures are missing now.

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Answer 10

my uncle was in WWII and then my dad was in the korean war