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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
SHIVER ME TIMBERS a écrit :
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 Grand father was french resistant chief of the ftp's bataillon of chabenet he was re integraded in the army after the war with the rank of captain regars |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
"SHIVER ME TIMBERS" wrote in message ... Born in December of 1931, my father was too young to serve during the big war. He enlisted in the newly formed U.S. Air Force in Jun, 1949. Dad served 20 years before retiring and starting his second career in 1970 as a state police officer here in Idaho. Mother was born in Sept of 1935 and only had distant memories of the days of the big war. Myself and both of my brothers all served in the USAF as well, although none of us did 20 years. Luke |
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On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:41:05 GMT, SHIVER ME TIMBERS
wrote: How about your folks..... Mom and Dad met at the Torpedo Station, Newport, RI. Dad could not enlist because of bad eyes. So he made torpedoes like his brother (WWI) and father. Mom quit the sewing mills and joined the war effort running a milling machine. They were married in 1949 and celebrated their 50th 9 months before Dad passed on. Mom is 84 (ssh don't tell her I said so) and is still a sparkplug. |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
"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. Dad was orphaned when his father was killed at Esnes France (1914) within days of getting there and his mother was killed getting off a tram so he joined the Royal Tank Corps asap (1932) and spent time in the North West Frontier of India as it was then. On leaving the service (May 1938) he joined Manchester Fire Brigade. He was recalled in December 1939 to the Royal Tank Corps but they found out he was a fireman and transferred him to the Army Fire Service which he was very unhappy about at the time (losing his beret). He was Officer Commanding 151 Army Fire Company in North Africa in 1943, then appointed Staff Captain (Fire) Algiers Sub District in 1944. He was transferred to the Staff Pool at Allied Forces HQ C.M.F. (Italy) in September 1944, promoted and moved to 15 Army Group to act as Deputy to ADAFS then in 1945 he assumed command of Army Fire Services, CMF. He was MID in May 1946 and was returned to the U.K. in August 1947. On return he was appointed Command Fire Officer, Western Command and Officer Commanding 852 Army Fire Company then In 1952 he was posted MELF as Chief Inspector of Fire Services (Egypt, Cyprus, Malta). In January 1954 he completed his service with H.M. Forces. This has been gathered from his records as, like so many, he was reluctant to say terribly much about WWII. ------------------------------ Reading other peoples replies and thinking of the numbers of people from so many nations it concentrates the mind on the debt that everyone owes to every single person involved, directly or indirectly. It is also true that we continue to owe so many people who are still operating to maintain our freedoms. -- Andrew "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.) |
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In memory of one other veteran, my Baby Brother, Billy, who never even
graduated US Navy boot camp, but got an honorable discharge. I don't know how, but I have seen his DD-214 and his certificate. Lonnie "Andrew B" wrote in message om... "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. Dad was orphaned when his father was killed at Esnes France (1914) within days of getting there and his mother was killed getting off a tram so he joined the Royal Tank Corps asap (1932) and spent time in the North West Frontier of India as it was then. On leaving the service (May 1938) he joined Manchester Fire Brigade. He was recalled in December 1939 to the Royal Tank Corps but they found out he was a fireman and transferred him to the Army Fire Service which he was very unhappy about at the time (losing his beret). He was Officer Commanding 151 Army Fire Company in North Africa in 1943, then appointed Staff Captain (Fire) Algiers Sub District in 1944. He was transferred to the Staff Pool at Allied Forces HQ C.M.F. (Italy) in September 1944, promoted and moved to 15 Army Group to act as Deputy to ADAFS then in 1945 he assumed command of Army Fire Services, CMF. He was MID in May 1946 and was returned to the U.K. in August 1947. On return he was appointed Command Fire Officer, Western Command and Officer Commanding 852 Army Fire Company then In 1952 he was posted MELF as Chief Inspector of Fire Services (Egypt, Cyprus, Malta). In January 1954 he completed his service with H.M. Forces. This has been gathered from his records as, like so many, he was reluctant to say terribly much about WWII. ------------------------------ Reading other peoples replies and thinking of the numbers of people from so many nations it concentrates the mind on the debt that everyone owes to every single person involved, directly or indirectly. It is also true that we continue to owe so many people who are still operating to maintain our freedoms. -- Andrew "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.) |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
Very interesting question !
I made a little study in France, answering this question a few decades ago to my school collegues. And surprisingly, the major part of them answered that their parents were in the resistance ! Several very serious studies were made about the french population during the WWII and all of them describe a population with 5% resistants, 5% collaborationists and 90% of population without enlisting who just went on their occupation. I conclude that in all ways people takes the honor and the heroism of the winners despite it has done nothing ! My parents were born during WWII. On my mother's side, my grand moyher was innoccupied and my grand father was working in the railway french national company. He worked in the way of the Vichy Government during the main part of the WWII and enlisted the resistance in the very end of the war. The Wehrmacht occupied their house between 1942 and 1944 and left rapidly when the allied landed in the South of France. On my father's side my grand mother and my grand father were miner at the pitface in the north-east of France. -- --------------------- RVB - http://www.cocardes.com .....aviation http://www.hervebrun.com .....photo ;-) |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
My dad was an aircraft mechanic in the Navy. He spent most of his time in
the South Pacific wrenching Catalinas (Solomon Islands). My mom was a teen in northern Italy. When the allied bombers flew over, she could tell if she needed to find shelter or just watch. Listening to the sound they made, heavy bomb filled planes groaned, empty ones zoomed at a higher pitch. Proud Son "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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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
Shiver...
I have been away from the group for quite a little while and while catching up on things I stumbled upon your interesting question... My late uncle was an AA gunner on the escort carrier HMS Fencer. Very briefly on board a destroyer and in fact saw HMS Hood shortly before her tragic encounter with the Bismarck. The tale is had two or three kills believed to be his My parents are in fact survivors of the Battle of Britain. A row of houses only a few streets down from my Dad's house where flattened, in one of the few raids to hit the Leeds area of Yorkshire. Later in 1944 and 1945 he was with the British 2nd Army in Germany. I know he was infantry at first but ended his service in the Royal Army Pay Corp in the early 1950s. My mother has memories of seeing a hill she was playing on only a few minutes before erupt from machine gun fire during a low level dog fight. She also has a story of a V1 passing over her house. One of my God parents, is one of only 5 survivors of school that was mistakenly bombed somewhere outside London. There is also some talk in my family of a cousin who was in the RAF Bomber Command. Apparently he participated in the 1000 bomber raids of Dresden, Hamburg and the other cities that where subsequently "melted" In a funny irony several years ago I was dating and incredibly beautiful young girl who was from Dresden, and who's Grand dad was an AA gunner for the German Army in the Dresden area. So two of our relatives where in all likely hood hell bent on killing each other 60 plus years ago. Again and interesting but also a very good question. Andrew "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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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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. (Snip) How about your folks..... My father was already honorably discharged from the Army, and was working as a mechanic at an Army Air Corps fighter training base when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was declared essential and worked there for the duration of the war. I had one uncle in the Sixth Armored Division, another in the Seventh Armored, one in a combat engineer outfit on Okinawa and later the occupation of Japan, one older cousin in the Army working on the Ledo road, and others that I don't know the details about. My wife's father was in L Company, 18 Infantry Regiment, First Infantry Division from North Africa all the way to Aachen, Germany where he met the million dollar wound. I'm proud of them all. |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
My grandfather was a german soldier and fought first in France then in Russia. He was wounded three times and fell in todays Poland
by end 1944. -- Gruß Guybrush Mails landen im Mülleimer! |
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