Dec. 7, 1941 is a day that will live in infamy. Did someone in your family fight in WWII?

by Jimbo Posted 2011/12/06 20:17:05

Related Topics: Family, War, Government, Country, Arms, Americans, World, Air Force, Live

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	Yes	152 votes	89%
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"Now [war] has
come and we must meet it as united Americans regardless of our attitude
in the past toward the policy our Government has followed. ... Our
country has been attacked by force of arms, and by force of arms we must
retaliate. We must now turn every effort to building the greatest and
most efficient Army, Navy and Air Force in the world." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his day of infamy speech.

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JGF 2011/12/07 00:55:14

Yes

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My father fought in the Battle of France and the Battle of Germany; was captured in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge and escaped by diving into the Meuse River and holding onto a block of ice to stay afloat. Far downstream a French family pulled him from the river, frozen from the waist down, and hid him in their home from German patrols til he was able to walk enough to return to his unit.
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Zody 2011/12/25 02:50:35

Yes

my dad and two uncles

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Luckydog38 2011/12/24 23:21:50

Yes

Great Uncles. One of which died at Guam.

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UrbanHillbilly 2011/12/17 07:31:29

Yes

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My father armed P-47s and P-51s in Europe.

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Mamaknows 2011/12/15 23:32:59

Yes

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2 in WW2
2 in Nam
3 in Desert storm
4 in War on terror:)
Proud of all of them.

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mrdog 2011/12/14 16:12:02

Yes

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My dad...bark

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cassidysf 2011/12/13 00:05:06

Yes

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my great grandpa.
he died a couple of years ago,
i still miss him.

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Dawn 2011/12/11 23:25:41

Yes

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My grandfather (my mothers father) was an engineer. We have a picture of his platoon in the dining room. My grandfather (my fathers father) was in the Navy and was a look-out.

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donald 2011/12/10 13:40:20

Yes

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my father.

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FencerCat 2011/12/09 01:47:11

Yes

Two uncles did. My father was discharged from the army for medical reasons. My grandfathers were air raid wardens stateside during the war.

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kraftymomma1979 2011/12/08 17:29:54

Yes

Most of the men in my family. My dad had a bad heart. On his third call up, they were taking everybody. The war ended right as he was scheduled to go so he didn't have to after all.

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Brian 2011/12/08 13:48:01

Yes

Yes, my father, and my former father in-law

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Stacie 2011/12/08 13:06:56

No

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No, but my father did 3 tours in Vietnam. He has 2 Purple Hearts for being wounded, 1 Bronze Star for bravery during battle.

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DebraDeJonge 2011/12/08 10:23:23

Yes

My late Uncle and my late Father-In-Law.

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13_JunkyardDog 2011/12/08 07:09:37

Yes

I have a Japanese Arisaka to prove it

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Aqua Surf 2011/12/08 04:47:17

Yes

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My dad; he stormed one of the beaches at Normandy but I can't remember which one. He's dead now and didn't like to talk about it. He joined the army right out of high school in the late 1930's and went through the entire war without a scratch. I think that made him feel a little guilty since he saw so many of his fellow soldiers, standing or sitting beside him, get killed.

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SilveryRow 2011/12/08 04:10:29

Yes

Both my grandfathers, from 1939 and on through. Thankfully, they both returned :)

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Julien Peter Benney 2011/12/08 03:51:07

Yes

My father, who died after a long stroke in Box Hill in 2007, fought in World War II.

Mummy always says that the Depression and World War II shaped Daddy in many ways, especially in how it made him store so much food he did not eat - a problem still with us today.

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findthelight2000 2011/12/08 03:33:39

Yes

My Father fought in Germany.

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Not my name. 2011/12/08 03:23:11

Yes

My father was in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and his two brothers were in the Army. My mother and her sister joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). My father was shot down and capture by the Germans in late 1944 and was a POW till the war ended, he was shot in the ankle and it left him with a limp all his life. One of my uncles caught malaria in Rangoon, Burma and died just after the war ended, and he is buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery in what is now Myanmar.

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Lawnmowerman~PWCM~JLA 2011/12/08 02:28:04

Yes

My dad and his brother. Dad lucked out and was a prison guard for German prisoners at Camp Beale near Marysville, CA.
My uncle saw combat and helped free Italy with his bazooka and George Patton.

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kyu 2011/12/08 02:01:52

Yes

My grandfather.

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Anna E 2011/12/08 01:59:00

Yes

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My Dad's oldest brother was a Winnipeg Grenadier.

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Georgia50 to Anna E 2011/12/17 23:09:46

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They were on the beach at Normandy, no?

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Anna E to Georgia50 2011/12/19 07:21:45

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Yes, they were. British Royal Marines, Grenadiers, Royal WInnipeg Rifles, and Queen's Own Rifles took the beach-head at Juno.

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Georgia50 to Anna E 2011/12/19 23:19:34

Canadian prisoners murdered by Kurt Meyer's troops at the Ardenne Abbey:

Of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders were:  
Private Ivan Crowe 
Private Charles Doucette 
Corporal Joseph MacIntyre 
Private Reginald Keeping 
Private James Moss

Of the 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment) were:
Trooper James Bolt
Trooper George Gill
Trooper Thomas Henry
Trooper Roger Lockhead 
Trooper Harold Philip
Lieutenant Thomas Windsor

The following day, 8 June, seven more POWs from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders were also executed:
Private Walter Doherty 
Private Hollis McKeil
Private Hugh MacDonald 
Private George McNaughton
Private George Millar
Private Thomas Mont
Private Raymond Moore

Godspeed, men!

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AnoSayWa 2011/12/08 01:22:12

Yes

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My loving grandfather fought in World War II and was stationed in Greenland. He also helped liberate the camps. Unfortunately, he passed away three years ago and it was sadly before we learned that he had actually earned a Bronze Star for his bravery in the war.

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hasher 2011/12/08 00:59:06

No

not anyone that i knew personally. my father in law was in korea and my son and daughter in law were in iraq and afghanistan. God bless all the vets. my dad was too young for ww1 and too old for ww2. so he didnt go.

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Georgia50 2011/12/08 00:25:14

Yes

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Two uncles in the Pacific, one uncle in Europe. My dad graduated high school in '46 so he missed out.

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heathereth 2011/12/08 00:02:20

Yes

My great Grandpa. he died.

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rand 2011/12/07 23:52:33

Yes

My father and uncles and some cousins.

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Jimbo to rand 2011/12/08 00:06:06

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My dad, 3 uncles, 8 of their cousins, 6 of Dad's cousin's fathers served. Everyone of age went to war. My grandmother on my mother's side had cousin's that fought for Mussolini and 3 that were part of the resistance. The resistance killed Mussolini by capturing him in a half track executed later by firing squad with film still surviving.

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Rocky 2011/12/07 23:29:36

Yes

My father was in the navy and his destroyer took out some sort of cannon that they put on a train in southern europe and moved in from place to place. He told me they hid the thing in tunnels between the mountains.

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hari 2011/12/07 23:03:38

No

no one and i do not have any said that - also its originated from mainly from Europe which is so weak now and US only is the country who is most powerful by all means . To think about war is absurd now a days barring few incidents of middle east and gulf

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Jimbo to hari 2011/12/07 23:50:19

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God forbid the radical fundamentalists get control of Pakistan nukes, war with India would occur with us taking India's side.

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hari to Jimbo 2011/12/08 00:10:29

it won't occur as economy worsen and no one on planet at present dare doing it

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Red Branch to Jimbo 2011/12/17 18:11:02

We won't have to, India will handle them with ease. The Pakis have won a war yet with India.

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SpeedDemon BN-0 2011/12/07 22:47:32

Yes

Both of my Grandfathers, two great Uncles on one side and two more great Uncles on the other side. All in all, six fought from my family.

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Boo 2011/12/07 22:11:23

Yes

My father was in the Army Air Corps. There was no Air Force yet.

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Jimbo to Boo 2011/12/07 23:57:28

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President H.W. Bush got the Distinguished Flying Cross, the only president alive that served in WWII.

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hasher to Jimbo 2011/12/08 01:01:45

wow thats cool.

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