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
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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.....