Dustoff wrote:
Also I forgot one of my uncles was in the south paciffic but have no idea
where or what they did, or what bracch he was in.. My Aunt's husbands
brother was in the Army Air Corp during the war I do have pictures where he
was stationed in Austrailia and New Guinea.


"Dustoff" wrote in message
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"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
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Well after watching the Ken Burns series THE WAR ad naseum ad naseum,
I thought I'd come into the group today with one of my curious questions.

What did your parents, family, etc. do in the big WWII.

Mine worked at the Canada Car foundry in what was then called
Fort William, Ontario.

They were inspectors helping to make Hawker Hurricanes and later other
types of figthers including the Curtis Helldiver.

How about your folks.....
My Father tried to enlist in the army, they rejected him because his right
forearm was about 3/4 inch shorter than his left forearm. That was due to
his right forearm had been broken when the saddle on the horse slipped and
he ended up under the horse and he fell out of the saddle and the horse
stepped on his right arm breaking it. The army doctors rejected him
because they believe that he would have problems pulling the trigger on
their rifles. He did however work for the war effort by getting a job
where they built PTO boats.



Dad enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1939 (IIRC), bootstrapped into the
C.G. Academy after Dec.7, serving mostly in the South Pacific on escort
duty on the Winnebago and the Taney. He was badly injured in an engine
room accident, but no combat injuries. Attained the rank of Lt jg. Mom
was a College student until they were married just before the end of the
war.

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German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics
French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians.

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