Did any of Your relatives see action in WW2?

Question

My Great grandad had His tongue shot out, but He never talks about it.

Answer 1

My great Grandpa was an ambulance driver...sound boring, I know...It got a little more interesting when his ambulance got blown up...

Answer 2

My grandad didn't go at all even though he was eligible. He didn't even leave his house when the air raid siren was going off. He let my gran run on her own with two kids to the shelter. I don't know how he got away with it. I am so proud!

Liked the joke btw

Answer 3

Absolutely!

Answer 4

MY MUM AND MY DAD THATS HOW THEY MET WE STOOD ALONE M8TY

Answer 5

i heard that you had an a*****e transplant,but a few days later the a*****e rejected you,

Answer 6

My dad's dad is still alive.  He's 92 this year.  I love my grandfather so much, as he has taught me how to stagger crops... and so much more!

He saw both wars.  His brother, at 17 (somehow) fell overboard HMS Caradoc - and was buried most humbly in Yalta (WW1) S.West Russia.  They gave him a massive funeral.  Both sides.  All united!  All soldiers!!!

Now what do you make of that?

My Mum's mum was shot at by certain aircraft in WW2 - just down the road from me now, on the coast. She is still alive - and I should see her more, but I never get time.  I need to find time though, because I love her so much.

Good joke, asides! ;o)

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Answer 7

My great, great uncle died at Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

My Father was in the Navy. He never spoke of the war except to say "I't's over."

His brother was in the army. We know he served in Burma, but he never spoke of it either as far as I know.

WW2 vets seem to be the silent type. Very few wish to talk of their experience.

Answer 9

My late father in law served during WW2 but seldom talked about it . Only when he died did we discover amongst his papers that he had been involved in the planning of the Dunkirk evacuation

Answer 10

You didn't misjudge the crowd. Look through the answers again. Most people liked your joke and one person gave you a joke back. You're fine. Funny story from my family:

I have a much older cousin who was an air force pilot who did bombing strikes over Germany in WW II. Years later, his son married a girl who was born in Germany and emigrated with her family to the US. In talking with his future daughter-in-law and her mother, he realized that at one time he bombed the town they lived in. At that time his daughter in law's mother was pregnant with her and she remembered the day her town was bombed and she was nearly hit. So my cousin has the unusual distinction of being able to say he once bombed his future daughter-in-law and mother of his future grandchildren. And of course, he's glad he missed.

Answer 11

i died in the war for people like you

Answer 12

That's a horrible joke.  Even if it did make me smile alittle.  

But still, bad joke.

Answer 13

for zis you vill be shot!

Answer 14

My grandpa served in the Marines.

Answer 15

it should have been his d**k,smart ***

Answer 16

My father was in the merchant navy.  He crossed the Atlantic several times, on one occasion, when he was on a Norwegian ship called the Lief Eriksson, it was torpedoed off Barbados, and many of the crew lost their lives.  My father, happily, was among the survivors, and they spent eight weeks on Barbados before being shipped over to the USA to wait for another ship to work on.

Answer 17

my nan worked in a parachute factory in London and was bombed constantly she told me a story about two American officers and a bag of shuger say no more

Answer 18

my great grandad suffered injury which left him with perforated eardrums

hes always banging on about it

Answer 19

My grandfather on my mother's side served in the US Army in the Pacific. From what I have always understood, he was some kind of mechanic or something. I've got a knife he personally made during the war.

When my great aunt on my dad's side passed away a few years ago I learned something I'd never known. My great uncle had served during the war, though I don't really know what branch or theater. I remember seeing a plaque at her house (we were helping to clear it out) that had been awarded to him for his service in the war. I think it said either infantry or airborne in Europe, but I just don't remember as I didn't really get much chance to study it closely.