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September 2nd, 2017, 01:42 PM | #21 |
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My father's brother, my Uncle Tony, was shot in the back by a sentry while trying to get back on base while training in England, after curfew, after a night out. He survived for 6 weeks and my father said he told them that the sentry didn't shout a warning but simply fired. This led to his life-long hatred of "shoot first" Americans.
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September 10th, 2017, 04:11 PM | #22 |
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My paternal Grandfather's eldest brother (my Great Uncle) was killed at Mons right at the beginning of WW1.
I did some research in 1983 and discovered that he was killed when a fox-hole he was waiting in suffered a direct hit from a German bomb/mortar. His parents were never told the truth about their son's death. |
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September 10th, 2017, 06:02 PM | #23 |
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Had an uncle killed at Festubert in WW1 aged 17 with the Black Watch
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September 14th, 2017, 01:38 PM | #24 |
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My grandparents, who were second-generation immigrants, stayed in touch with relatives from the "old country" (Austria-Hungary) through the outbreak of WW2 in 1937. They lost contact with most of these people after the war, so I will assume some of them died in the war.
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September 14th, 2017, 02:25 PM | #25 |
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@cginok: What happened to your uncle at the end of WW2, happened to a friend of my father's after Vietnam.
My father was in the 27th Infantry Regiment with someone who won the Medal of Honor. After Vietnam was over, his friend was back home in Michigan. He was at the docks on one of the Great Lakes, when a rogue wave much taller than he was came and swept him away. His body was never recovered. Ironic that anyone would survive a war, even win the Medal of Honor, only to be killed by mother nature after the war was over. |
September 29th, 2017, 03:44 AM | #26 |
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Grand Father US Navy, Battle of Leyte Gulf/
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