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Old November 5th 07, 03:02 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Andrew Chaplin
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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.....


Dad was a Canadian in the RN operating radar. Mum was a student at Lisgar
Collegiate Institute learning, among other things, to shoot in case push came
to shove (the school had an indoor range on its fourth floor) and occasionally
babysitting Adrienne Poy. Maternal grandfather was a sergeant in the Black
Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, until he was hit by a truck in the
blackout in England and crippled. His wife was a social worker in Ottawa,
working with families who had lost loved ones or who were having them returned
as wounded. Paternal grandfather ran the timber mechanics laboratory at
Princes Risborough for the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and was the man who,
before the war, proved the concept for the plywood construction of the
Mosquito. His wife ran the household and prayed for a son running an oil
refinery in Egypt, another leading a troop in the Royal Canadian Hussars, and
for my dad in the RN (she was spared having to worry much about her daughter,
whom they packed off back to Canada in 1939 to finish her schooling in
Montréal).
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Old November 5th 07, 04:43 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Lynn in StLou[_3_]
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SHIVER ME TIMBERS wrote:


Father served in 45th Infantry division field
artillery

http://www.45thdivision.org/Photo_Ga...Travers171.jpg

Mother taught school in Kansas

Lynn in StLou...Phoenix for now



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Old November 5th 07, 05:18 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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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.....



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.........




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Old November 5th 07, 05:30 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Tom Callahan
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My father was an infantryman who was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge at
Bastogne. He was treated at a hospital in the USA and then went to the
Pacific Theater. He ended up staying in the service after World War II and
retired from the Army.

My mother was a glass blower in New Jersey. She made glass cylinders used
to make radio tubes.

My brother and I were both career Army; my older sister married an Air Force
guy and my younger sister married a Coast Guard guy.

Tom in Pensacola


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Old November 5th 07, 06:47 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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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 dad was CO of the 82nd Combat Engineers Battalion.
During the invasion his unit built many of the pontoons and other support
structures
needed for the march to Berlin.

My mom was a secretary in Washington DC at one of the government offices.

Jim Morris


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Old November 5th 07, 06:54 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Pat Heuvel
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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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Old November 5th 07, 07:50 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Guy
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How about your folks.....


My father was forced by the fascist regime to fight in Africa and Balcans to
conquire the "empire" and , in the progess, he met also with a bullet in
the
chest. After 8-11-1943 he letf, and joined the resistance against the nazi
which had occupied Italy. He knew English language so he was given the radio
comunications with the Britts and Americans (whom we will never end to thank
for what they did) until the end of the war in april 45.He died in 1972.


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Old November 5th 07, 09:44 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
John Ewing
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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 was a Kiwi soldier/driver in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary
Force and saw action against Rommel in North Africa - Battle of El Alamein
and Tobruk then through the Middle East and finally Italy. Witnessed the
bombing at Monte Casino. He told me he saw Charles Upham being presented
with his VC - one of 2 he received - and said he was the most humble of
soldiers and embarrassed by all the pomp and ceremony.

My uncle was captured by the Germans in Crete and sent to work on farms in
Poland. A talented musician, he received a piano accordion that was sent to
their prison camp by the Pope to boost morale. It was lost during their
release at the end of WW2, but returned to him about ten years ago. He
recently returned to the village where he had been a farm labourer during
the war. An elderly woman ran up to him and cried out "Cliff ! ... Cliff !"
Incredible that she still recognised him after 50 years absence.

My mother, aged in her late teens, lived in Melbourne, Australia. In her
spare time she was a Concert Party dancer entertaining troops who were on
leave. She met my father on his way back to NZ after the war.
Her father was a radio operator who assisted Charles Kingsford Smith with
communications when he flew around Australia. I very much regret not
tracking down my grandfather before he died.

Cheers,
John


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Old November 5th 07, 12:26 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
David Hartung[_3_]
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Default 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.

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.....


I must have some young parents. Both my parents were still in school. Dad
graduated high school in 1948, and joined the USAF about 1950. Dad was in the
pipeline to go to Korea as an F84 pilot when the Armistice happened.
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Old November 5th 07, 12:49 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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SHIVER ME TIMBERS added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

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.....

If you recognize my handle, and my name, Jerry Rivers, then you
know my father fought on Saipan and Tinian, and is pictured in Joe
Rosenthal's follow-on group "gung ho" photograph after the 2nd flag
raising on Mt. Suribachi. I shan't repost my pictures as
(apparently) it annoys some folks around here.

--
HP, aka Jerry
 




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