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re: D-Day related; Found the coolest item at my grandparents estate sale
Posted on 6/8/16 at 1:41 pm to tiger91
Posted on 6/8/16 at 1:41 pm to tiger91
quote:
He wrote this in a letter to my grandmother on June 13.
"I'll never forget the spectacle of D-Day. It was thrilling and did we have a grandstand seat. Seeing the firing at dawn was a rare and beautiful sight. The whole import behind it was thrilling. I felt so proud and so happy, just to look under my wing to right or left, and see the ghostly outlines of ships in the half light, blasting away at shore installations. To us who had waited so long, it was the beginning of our return home." June 13, 1944
People wrote so beautifully back in those days (even going back to the days of the civil war). Nowadays everything is written at a fourth grade level because most of our country is dumb.
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Posted on 6/8/16 at 1:51 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Not from D-day but it is my Grandfathers bomb patch. He flew a B-24 Liberator bombing in Austria /Germany and the Ploesti oil fields.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 2:27 pm to tiger91
Awesome stuff. The OT is a sh*tshow, but threads like this redeem the board.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 2:31 pm to YeahYeah
I've got a Japanese flag of my grandfather's that has a bunch of Japanese writing all over it. When it was translated, we found out it's a bunch of well wishes to whoever the soldier was.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:07 pm to Chucktown_Badger
So I copied the link through photobucket and got a dreaded "little box" and no pic.
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This post was edited on 6/8/16 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:13 pm to tiger91
Very cool!
My Grandfather was a Nav. in a B-24 crew in the 8th.
Shot down over Germany, interned for a year in Stalag Luft 1.
Link to the story of the crew. Good read!
Here he is standing, 2nd from the left.
My Grandfather was a Nav. in a B-24 crew in the 8th.
Shot down over Germany, interned for a year in Stalag Luft 1.
Link to the story of the crew. Good read!
Here he is standing, 2nd from the left.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:14 pm to moon
1) What strikes me first is they look so little compared to today
2) How in the heck do I get my pic here?? I've uploaded it to photobucket but get a nice little box when I link the image??
2) How in the heck do I get my pic here?? I've uploaded it to photobucket but get a nice little box when I link the image??
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:19 pm to tiger91
Is this the pic you were trying to post up?
VCS-7 pilots are briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beachheads, June-July 1944. Those present are (from left to right): Wing Commander Robert J. Hardiman, RAF, Commanding Allied Spotter Pilots; Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR; Major Noel East, British Army Intelligence; Lieutenant Harris Hammersmith, Jr., USNR; and Captain John Ruscoe, Royal Artillery, Gunnery Liaison Officer. [US Navy]
Another photo taken in Lee-on-Solent showing VCS-7 pilots and English personnel in readiness. Shown on the photo are Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR, (drinking a cup of tea); Lieutenant Alexander A. Smith, USNR, studying maps, second from the right. [US Navy]
VCS-7 pilots are briefed before flying a gunfire spotting mission over the Normandy beachheads, June-July 1944. Those present are (from left to right): Wing Commander Robert J. Hardiman, RAF, Commanding Allied Spotter Pilots; Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR; Major Noel East, British Army Intelligence; Lieutenant Harris Hammersmith, Jr., USNR; and Captain John Ruscoe, Royal Artillery, Gunnery Liaison Officer. [US Navy]
Another photo taken in Lee-on-Solent showing VCS-7 pilots and English personnel in readiness. Shown on the photo are Ensign Robert J. Adams, USNR, (drinking a cup of tea); Lieutenant Alexander A. Smith, USNR, studying maps, second from the right. [US Navy]
This post was edited on 6/8/16 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:30 pm to YeahYeah
quote:
When going through my grandfather's belongings I found a swastika flag he must have taken off of nazi soldier.
Sure he did.
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:31 pm to tiger91
When my grandfather passed about 4 years ago my grandmother had a box she was going to throw away because she didn't know what was in it. My mom called me and asked me to go,take a look through the box. My grandfather was a Navy Seabee in World War II. In the box was his folded flag from his casket, his honorable discharge papers from the navy, several pictures of him as an 18 year old, his wallet, wedding ring, his Seabee hat he wore everywhere he went, and his watch! My grandmother didn't know what was in there. When I told her she said, "paw paw would want you to have these things" 
I was his oldest grandson.
I was his oldest grandson. 
Posted on 6/8/16 at 3:36 pm to tiger91
Great find. That's cool you didn't let it slip through the cracks and get sold off or something. 
Posted on 6/8/16 at 4:49 pm to tiger91
Same situation about a year ago.
I got:
-A military field manual.
-A pair of Japanese aviator glasses in a carrying case
-A translated copy of my great grandfather's journal that details his ocean crossing when immigrating to the USA!
-Photocopies of the original German text, and the English translation in a leather-bound book.
-My great grandfather's drafting kit, as well as some of his school books.
-My grandfather's watch and tie clips
I got:
-A military field manual.
-A pair of Japanese aviator glasses in a carrying case
-A translated copy of my great grandfather's journal that details his ocean crossing when immigrating to the USA!
-Photocopies of the original German text, and the English translation in a leather-bound book.
-My great grandfather's drafting kit, as well as some of his school books.
-My grandfather's watch and tie clips
Posted on 6/8/16 at 4:56 pm to tiger91
This is so cool. I love hearing these stories.
My mother in law found a letter her uncle wrote to his mom (I think) describing some tests that their ship was performing. It's on the ship's stationery so I did some digging based on things he's wrote. He couldn't say too much in his letter but I found that the ship he was on was testing large scale bombs, maybe even nuclear.
He wrote about the explosion and how nothing of the ship they blew up remained after. They were all completely stunned it just disappeared after the blast.
I interned in the collections dept at the WWII museum (love to drop that fact) and I saw some amazing things. But this was amazing since it's our family.
My mother in law found a letter her uncle wrote to his mom (I think) describing some tests that their ship was performing. It's on the ship's stationery so I did some digging based on things he's wrote. He couldn't say too much in his letter but I found that the ship he was on was testing large scale bombs, maybe even nuclear.
He wrote about the explosion and how nothing of the ship they blew up remained after. They were all completely stunned it just disappeared after the blast.
I interned in the collections dept at the WWII museum (love to drop that fact) and I saw some amazing things. But this was amazing since it's our family.
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