Real stories from WW2 by my Grand-grand father. (You can type here your stories from your GGFs)
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said on May 24, 2010 at 04:12 PM

My grand-grand father's name is Petar. He is 99 years old now and he tels me stories from the war when I ask him. He served in the Bulgarian army from 1944 to 1945. He fought against the germans and the serbs. He served in "16 artilery division". He says: "The war is the whorst thing in the world." When I go to see him again, I will ask him to tell me other stories. He acted in 3 battles. I will ask him to wrote a map for the battles. I wil type here one of his stories.

In 1945 his division were chasing a retreating german army. They were in Hungary. The bulgarians spotted a house. They stormed the house but it were empty. They entered inside and found an old woman. The woman were afraid from them. One of the soldiers (he spoked german) asked the old woman why she is afraid and she said: "The germans told me that the bulgarians are eating human meat". They said that is not true, sleep for the night and on the other day continued chasing the german army.

P.S: When I see him again I will ask him about more stories. But this time I want to be for the battles. I only know that one of his battles were in Serbia. He says that the serbs were a very bad soldiers. They had two different shoes on them legs, one or two granates from the first world war and one very long carabine. Once one of the serbs prisoners said: "I led 3 day a glorious battle and now I'm going to go home to see wife and children and I'll be back." (If he goes home he will never return) :)

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said on May 24, 2010 at 04:23 PM

Here is my grand-grand father's weapon type: Karabiner 98k.

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said on May 24, 2010 at 11:40 PM

Peep sight.

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said on May 24, 2010 at 11:51 PM

My Great-Grandfather served aboard a Narwhal Class submarine in WWII, he was in the US Navy from 1941-1945. He kept a journal of what was going on at the time, and eventually brought it home with him. It's actually in my house somewhere, the problem is where it is exactly in my house, last time I saw it was about a year ago :\

Sadly, I don't remember if he was ever in any action, he probably was though. Even more sadly, he died before I was born, so I only know stuff that my Dad and my Grandpa told me, and stuff from his journal, which is still in good shape suprisingly.

Here is my Great-Grandfather's weapon type:

(American Submarine beats your German Bolt Action Rifle, Valerii.)

said on May 25, 2010 at 01:15 AM

my step grandfather was russian, and a cook. he was around 90 when he died, and that was about 2001, so i would geuss he served in ww2. he imigrated (duh) and that's all i know. my former neighbour (deceased) was a tank commander, and my dad knew a few other vets, but i was too young to understand or ask questions.

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said on Sep 20, 2010 at 10:40 PM

My Grandfather was in the American 101st Airborne Division in WWII. He volunteered as soon as he saw an advertisement for it. He made a Combat Jump into The Normandy hedgerows and was forced to hide him and his two friends in a Frenchman's barn. They stayed there for the night and killed 17 Germans as they ran past. He fought in The Battle of the Bulge and had to fight off a regiment for days with his rifle squad. He was captured after they ran out of ammo and were forced to hold off the German attack with their rifles like clubs. Luckily they escaped as mortar fire landed feet in front of them. They ran and were forced to survive for 2 days with nothing but their combat knives. Tough stuff.

My father has some tough stories from Vietnam. I think those are much more terrifying.

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said on Dec 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM

Were they by any chance in easy company?

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said on Dec 24, 2011 at 01:56 PM

Did he mention what his intended drop zone was? Playing hide-and-seek for two days suggests they were supposed to be part of the furthest East drops, but then got scattered even further South.

101st Airborne Division:

DZ "A" St Martin de Varreville: 502nd PIR and 377th FA

DZ "C" Hiesville: 3/501st PIR and 1 and 2/506th PIR

DZ "D" Angoville au Plain: 1 and 2/501st PIR and 3/506th PIR

LZ "E" Hiesville: Glider

map

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said on Dec 24, 2011 at 02:31 PM

all thoes corps in France all up to full strength and all thoes army groups in Britian this map shows how many men were involved in overlord better than any statistic.

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said on Dec 24, 2011 at 02:33 PM

why are all the panzer units marked red?

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said on Dec 25, 2011 at 01:42 PM

deathscompanion said

why are all the panzer units marked red?

Literally, "hard targets". Wherever they show up, the Allies WOULD have a tough fight. Conversely, taking one out represented a really big loss to the Germans. Much of the Allied strategy and tactics were meant specifically to keep the Panzer divisions out of Normandy.

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said on Dec 25, 2011 at 07:30 PM

My grandfather was in the Afrika-Korps. He volunteered, after his three brothers had already fallen. Maybe because he was blinded by the propaganda. From 1943 on, he fought in Tunisia, Sicily and southern Italy. In 1944 he was captured in the battle of Monte Cassino.

And thats were the real stories start. He never told us anything about the war, only about his time as a prisoner of war. And he "expanded" the truth. Do you know the Libyan Killer-Ants? They are one feet long and they eat camels and oil. And he fought against a lion one time. He won, cause he grabbed in the lion's mouth and turned the inside out...

However, one real story I will never forget: About 20 years after the war, he went camping with his familiy in northern Italy. At the same time, on the same campsite, there was a guard of the POW camp in North Africa. The didn't know each other, but after some talks, the found out that they were in the same camp. My grandfather as a POW, and this British guy as a guard. From there on, they were good friends.

said on Feb 07, 2012 at 01:45 PM

my dad told me that my grandfather's uncle i think it was, was a important spy for the allies during the war, he and his friends helped gathering info that was important for sinking the battleship Tirpitz and Scharhorst. he was captured and tortured, he jumped out of the window in the bank of Tromsø (a town in Northern Norway) my grand dad on my mother's side, was running whit his family away form the germans, then a german behind them shouted: HALT! and they stopped, the german walked towards my grandpa, and grabbed his mustache and pulled half of it off.

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