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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
I lost him when I was 7 and my grandfather when I was 43. My grandfather
never said anything other they worked for the "government." "HEMI-Powered" wrote in message .. . 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..... -- HP, aka Jerry |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
Eric added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
I lost him when I was 7 and my grandfather when I was 43. My grandfather never said anything other they worked for the "government." I'm very sorry to hear about your loss at such a tender age, Eric. In my case, my mother used to say that my father's Guardian Angel was watching over him. He was a part of the larger 5th Marine Amphibious Corps which was slated to invade the southern most island of Japan on 1Nov45, and undoubtedly the atomic bombs saved him. It is hard for me to believe he could beat the odds of neither being killed (obviously, else I wouldn't be here) or wounded a 4th time. If you have ANY documentation about your relatives, you can write to the Marines for such things as their discharge certificates, re-issue of medals, combat ribbons, unit citations, and the like. In my case, that stuff survived but I am still trying to get more documentation that can only be found in what were then called "muster reports", what was later called a "morning report" when I was in the Army circa 1970-72, basically who was present in which unit(s), campaigns, etc. 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? -- HP, aka Jerry |
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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 continued farming (I remember the German POWs coming to hoe the sugar beets) and mom continued as a 1st-6th grade teacher. Had an uncle that flew B-25s, B-26s, and 'birddogs' for OSS in China/Burma theater. |
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SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS DO IN THE BIG WAR
My father was a shipfitter at the Walsh-Kaiser shipyard in Providence,
RI building liberty ships. Mom was a stay-at-home and volunteer. JT 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..... |
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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 (Francis (Frank) Frankcom) was a soldier in the 2nd / 7th Australian Infantry Battalion in various places in the Pacific & Middle East theatres. (Alamein, Kokoda, Burma, Ceylon + others) He passed away in the late 70's (I never got to meet him as I was put up for adoption at my birth in '59.) May he rest in peace. I give thanks to my dad and all his fellow service personel for helping make the world a better place. Lets try not to f*/& up all their good work eh? Jeff Cochrane VK4BOF |
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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
"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
... "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). Leading Seaman Philip Alfred Conrad Chaplin ashore in Mombasa, Kenya, between his stint in battleship QUEEN ELIZABETH and in submarine depot ship ADAMANT. -- 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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My mother did firewatching on the top of the Super cinema in Oxford and
looking after Italian and German POWs who worked our land. My father was in the Royal Navy and served on the ship with the dubious honour of being the first combatant ship to be sunk in WWII although he went on to serve on various ships after that including the unfortunate HMS Trinidad. |
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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
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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