My paternal grandfather had an uncle who was drafted in the 40s. Unfortunately,He didn't make it back to tell the story
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My paternal grandfather had an uncle who was drafted in the 40s. Unfortunately,He didn't make it back to tell the story
Here is a picture of my paternal Grandfather when they (Partisans) liberated the city of Novi Sad from the Axis
https://i.ibb.co/wNGG9S5/Photo1500079.jpg
3 great grandfather's fought the Italians in Albania
All my ancestors fought against Russia and Germany. They didn't care who the attackers were, shot all the time.
Mine served in the Wehrmacht.
Both in Heer and Luftwaffe.
My paternal great grandfather was a Luftwaffe Flakhelfer. He served in East Prussia and later was transferred to Western Germany. After he got captured by the Americans he was recruited into the Czechoslovak Army in exile but never saw any fighting on the Allied side because by that time the War ended. When he returned home he had to serve 2 more years in the post-war Czechoslovak Army in a mortar unit.
My paternal great great grandfather (father of my paternal great grandmother) fought in Heer during the Invasion of Poland in 1939. Then he was demobilised and later in 1944 re-called for duty. One time in 1944 when he was in a truck in a Polish forest he got ambushed by the Polish resistance. He got shot in his leg but managed to escape the ambush and found his unit. He lived in Switzerland for several years after WW2 and returned home on a motorcycle when his daughter, my great grandmother got married to my great grandfather whose story I wrote above.
My maternal great grandfather served in the interwar Czechoslovak Army in Carpathian Ruthenia and then he served in Heer the entire WW2. At the end the Soviets captured him but fortunately he managed to escape from the train to Gulag when the train was close to his hometown and returned home.
I also have two relatives who served in the Waffen SS. Not much is known about them. One died during training in 1939, a tank rolled him over and the other one served in a Panzer unit and was killed in combat.
Both Grandfathers. One in the pacific and one in Europe. US Navy and US Army Air Corps respectively. My grand-uncle also fought in Europe and was shot in the leg and captured by the Germans, got tortured by being hung from his thumbs.
Both maternal and paternal great grandfathers were in the navy
My grandpa saw action in the Army, and my other grandpa got busted by his mom when he tried to enlist at 14. My great-grandma had a collection of stars on her house since several of her sons served at the same time (Sullivan Law changed that).
My ancestors were either too young or too old for it.