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re: What family members of yours fought in WWII?
Posted on 5/31/13 at 4:16 pm to Patton
Posted on 5/31/13 at 4:16 pm to Patton
My Grandfather served in the Navy on the U.S.S. Cockrill. They sank a U-boat in the Atlantic. In '45 they tranferred to the Pacific and he was on the island and got to see the Enola Gay take off with the A-bomb
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Posted on 5/31/13 at 4:54 pm to GumpInLex
Two uncles, my mom's older brothers, both deceased now. (I was a very late-in-life oops baby!)One was in Europe, the other in Japan.
My uncle in Europe would never talk about what he saw. He never brought it up, or answered questions other than very general ones. Right before he died he talked to one of his brothers about it, a brother who served in the Korean War. I think he saw holocaust camps, and was just devastated by it.
My uncle in Japan was only there toward the end of the war.
They were both wonderful men, like great uncles to me. I always think about them on Memorial Day.
In doing family tree research, I found not only Civil War stuff but also that I'm a descendant of men who fought for independence in the Revolutionary War. They were militia in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. By the Civil War, the ones from Pennsylvania had moved to South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama.
My uncle in Europe would never talk about what he saw. He never brought it up, or answered questions other than very general ones. Right before he died he talked to one of his brothers about it, a brother who served in the Korean War. I think he saw holocaust camps, and was just devastated by it.
My uncle in Japan was only there toward the end of the war.
They were both wonderful men, like great uncles to me. I always think about them on Memorial Day.
In doing family tree research, I found not only Civil War stuff but also that I'm a descendant of men who fought for independence in the Revolutionary War. They were militia in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. By the Civil War, the ones from Pennsylvania had moved to South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama.
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