SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR

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.....

"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 were born while their fathers were dodgeing slave labour under Hun
control. Basically what that means is: they were starving before they could
properly speak in the winter of 44-45. They were saved by british and
amarican bombers dropping food during Operation Manna (British) / Operation
Chowhound (US) (
http://www.heureka.clara.net/lincoln...tion-manna.htm )

Ron
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Ron wrote:
"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 were born while their fathers were dodgeing slave labour under Hun
control. Basically what that means is: they were starving before they could
properly speak in the winter of 44-45. They were saved by british and
amarican bombers dropping food during Operation Manna (British) / Operation
Chowhound (US) (
http://www.heureka.clara.net/lincoln...tion-manna.htm )

Ron

My (Dutch) father worked in Dresden as a labourer, but also had a talent
for forging travel papers to get himself, and people not liked by the
nazis, out of Germany. He worked with the Dutch underground. He left
Dresden to work in Arnhem when the Germans cracked down after finding so
many people slipped through their fingers with false documents. He lived
in Zevenaar with my mother, but both were born in Deventer. They also
helped evacuate downed pilots and others out of Holland to England.

He died last year, and my only regret was to never have gotten his story
on tape!

Pat

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


My father was paymaster for the North American Aviation plant in Los Angeles
California.

Paul
N1431A
KPLU

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

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My mother was a "Rosie the Riveter" in the Seattle shipyards.

My father was an armorment(sp?) specialist (B-24) in North Africa, At
least some time near the end of the war that is where was, don't know
much else about his tour of duty, though he did serve elsewhere.

Had an uncle that died in an air raid on VE day, don't know the location.

George

SHIVER ME TIMBERS wrote:
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 was a PBY pilot in the Pacific; he was an enlisted pilot
(Chief Petty Officer) and flew west coast patrol missions from Cabo San
Lucas via North Island Naval Air Station to the Canadian Border and back
again. My mother was a telephone company teletype specialist who worked
for the Signals Intelligence Station at Imperial Beach California. She
was a shift supervisor for radio teletype interception. Her younger
sister was a forklift operator at the 11th Naval District yards while
her husband was a fuel handler for ship refueling at the Port of San Diego.

"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.....


Dad was Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner in a B-17. 452nd Bomb Group (H),
based at Deopham Green, near Norwich and Attleborough. 26 combat missions.
Also flew on three "Chowhound" missions over Holland. February 1945 till the
end of the war in Europe. Mom was just out of High School and working.

Tony P.

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"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
...
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.....


Dad was Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner in a B-17. 452nd Bomb Group (H),
based at Deopham Green, near Norwich and Attleborough. 26 combat missions.
Also flew on three "Chowhound" missions over Holland. February 1945 till
the
end of the war in Europe. Mom was just out of High School and working.

Tony P.



Oh yeah!...forgot a photo.........

I never found out exactly what my father did, other than he and my
grandfather were electricians for the "government" (as they called it) in
New Mexico during the last couple years of the war. I have several pictures
of them in the desert without any sort of landmarks in the shots.

My mother worked at a factory in Saint Louis, to this day, she has never
talked about it.


"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
...
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.....

Eric added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

I never found out exactly what my father did, other than he
and my grandfather were electricians for the "government" (as
they called it) in New Mexico during the last couple years of
the war. I have several pictures of them in the desert
without any sort of landmarks in the shots.

Eric, did you suffer the loss of your father either during the
war or when you were too young to remember his story?

My mother worked at a factory in Saint Louis, to this day, she
has never talked about it.


"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message
...
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.....






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HP, aka Jerry