Real War stories

[=(eG)=Sheik Yerbouti]

My father was a paratrooper in WWII, in the Pacific Theater, never really was subjected to any front line stuff (luckily), but did do an 800' night drop. He weighed about 145lbs, and with all of his equip, he topped 310lbs. Damn... We talk about it from time to time. He seems somewhat reluctant. I think this is why I dig the para maps.

 

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AWSOME STORIES

 

[ProBowl24]

my grandfather was in the war and so was my uncle but my grandpa died before i was born (not from the war). He was in the Air Force and got shot down and swam to shore where he was later picked up by a ship. My uncle does not like to tell about his days in war. He never told anyone what happened there

 

[McQueen]

My grandfather, now deceased, fought in WWII. I never was able to find out what unit he was with, but he was army and he had been to Bergenbelsen, he was a medic. He said he once shot a German pow as he was attempting to escape in the snow. He didn't talk about it much and I was 3000 miles away anyway. According to my mother, he hated talking about his experience in the war and could not watch movies about it.

 

[i have no life [DAM]]

my grandfather on mymom's side passed about 3 years ago was on the latter part of WWII. he served in Austria and said to me is was just trench fight after trench fight, but he mananged to survive the last year and a half of the war. He never really liked to talk about the war.

my grandpa on my dad's side briefly served in the korean war. Spend about two weeks as a riflemen, got a million dollar wound to the shoulder and left. Luckly he has full usage of it.

 

[ROCKET CHUMP]

i dont really talk to my grapndpa much because his hearing is pretty bad, but he did tell me that one time while he was still living in China during the war, he saw some heads of some Chinese citezins floating down a river that were cut by Japanese soldiers - He then signed up but the war ended while he was in training

 

[Pepaw]

Dang.....the Enola Gay.... you other guys had great stories too.

 

[naniekso]

my granpda (who is dead) died after living during the war between Iraq and Iran. Both my mom and her mom were taken taken hostage( i dont know much about it though, they dont talk of that part). they were going ot be taken to "court", but then my granpda took out his shotgun in his kitchen cabnet and shot the two iraqi officals( they were spies sent out to killl my granpda) he was Iran's Supreme Judge. he was goin to kill an iraqi general. from there bombings of everyday fo rmy mom's side of trhe family. my dad(before he met my mom left for USA) my mom i swear to god has stared death in the face bout 5 times. From bombs to their backyard to gas bombs, to bombs shattering glass shooting at her like icicles as she ran to the bomb shelters. my dad had shot someone too. my mom had a pet and her family wanted to get on a train one time. but they wouoldnt allow pets. so her dad said screw it and went to run away from the fight in a car. 2 hours later the train that they would have goten on was bombd to shiat musilm. my mom and dad arent afarid of anything. they are both >50 years old. and have lived a childhood of fear and bombings. i respect them dearly. othe rthan tahat almost all of my family has died in the iraq war. i have only 30 cousins 4 uncles, 3 aunts, 2 grandmas and 2 cousins in the usa. lol phew long story shortend. gtg i had to leave ~!

 

[Punch2Face]

My grandpa was a bombadier for a B-24 in WWII. He mainly flew over Italy, but he told me one time that a flak shell exploded right infront of the cockpit, and killed both the pilot and co-pilot, along with totally screwing up all of the main flight controls. He flew it 150 miles and landed the plane safely at the base using only the trim controls (the controls the bombadier uses to make the final minor adjustments before dropping the bombs. In short, they barely move the plane at all.) He got a medal after that. He said that also, he only ever saw 1 bomb actually hit the ground, since they were so far ahead of them when they hit. It hit in a lake =]. But he doesn't talk about it much, but probably because I never really ask him.

 

[EDITThor]

I barely knew this guy, but he came in to my AP History class a long time ago to tell some war stories.

This man was the leader of a Tank Battalion in Italy during World War II, I don't remember what regiment it was, but it was the only one in Italy at the time (There were 4 or 5 tanks in the regiment). They had several skirmishes with the Nazis but the Allied Powered eventually pushed through the Axis defense. Anyway, after the warpath in Italy, many of the defeated Axis soldiers (probably Italian) retired from the service due to injury or PTSS (Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome). However, that last part was unimportant.

After the War, the guy I listened to went back to Italy to see the places he couldn't get a good glimpse of during the War. He and his buddies from the Tank Regiment decided to go to an old Italian Tavern where they noticed that the Tavern keeper only had one arm. Eventually they conversation ended up around the man's arm and he said that his arm was blown off by a tank during one of the battles in which they were the only tank regiment in there. So the fellow I heard the story from just got served drinks by the man who's arm he blew off.

I know, it may not be as cool as some other stories, but we all had a good laugh when we heard it.

:edit:
Now for my relatives, both of my grandfathers were in the service.
One was a Medic for the American Army
The other was in the Black Watch (A Scottish Elite Group)

I've heard some war stories about both of them, but I can't really recall them to be honest. I just know that neither of them liked talking about it at all.