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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. 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). -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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 and the obligatory picture... |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
"muff528" wrote in message news:udtXi.8437$h17.2061@trnddc04... "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......... |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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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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. 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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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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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 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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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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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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. 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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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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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
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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