What did your family do in WW2?

[Petrus]

My maternal grand father was reserve lieutenant in the french artillery in 1940.

After the defeat as he was born in lorraine and refused to become german, he fled with his pregnant wife in portugal where my mother is born then managed to go to northern america. I don't know what happened then.

My paternal grandfather just died. He was born in 1898, when to war in 1917 and came back a year later heavily wounded by gazes. He survived after several long stays in sanatoriums. But with kraut's revival in 1940, there was a medical shortage and he could no more heal himself so he died in 1944 at the age of 46.

My maternal grand father's brother in law served in the wermacht on the east front where he was wounded and captured. He came back several years after the war's ending with a huge hate of russians and metal scraps in his legs that went out til his last days of life.

One of my maternal's uncles served as a sailor in the free french navy.

I don't know anything about relative's activitys during this war but none of the ones i have known accepted to speak about that, almost everything i know came from letters writen to family members, military papers, citations and medals.

[Petrus]

My maternal grand father was reserve lieutenant in the french artillery in 1940.

After the defeat as he was born in lorraine and refused to become german, he fled with his pregnant wife in portugal where my mother is born then managed to go to northern america. I don't know what happened then.

My paternal grandfather just died. He was born in 1898, when to war in 1917 and came back a year later heavily wounded by gazes. He survived after several long stays in sanatoriums. But with kraut's revival in 1940, there was a medical shortage and he could no more heal himself so he died in 1944 at the age of 46.

My maternal grand father's brother in law served in the wermacht on the east front where he was wounded and captured. He came back several years after the war's ending with a huge hate of russians and metal scraps in his legs that went out til his last days of life.

One of my maternal's uncles served as a sailor in the free french navy.

I don't know anything about other relative's activitys during this war but none of the ones i have known accepted to speak about that, almost everything i know came from letters writen to family members, military papers, citations and medals.

Sorry, i forgot words.

[tibilicus]

Any ones know or have grandparents who were in the thick of it i.e D.day or even more interesting anyone know or have relatives who were in Berlin in the final days of the war finishing of the Nazis?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

anyone know where I can get semi-accurate to accurate German rosters from WWII? I need to know what unit my great uncle served in ;) i know im pitiful

[Butcher]

Actually I agree, it would be interesting to find exactly who my great-grandad was with in Stalingrad.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I need to know if he served with the Werhmacht or Waffen (hopefully the Waffen SS, they were elite), and his first name.
They're not that many palisch's out there. Not that many that served in france from a regiment from Burgenland/Styria and became an america POW in Texas.

[GenosseGeneral]

I need to know if he served with the Werhmacht or Waffen (hopefully the Waffen SS, they were elite) [...]

You better don't wish that... they were elites in terms of cruelty, murder and fanatism.

My grandfather maternal-side served in an infantry unit and was heavily wounded during the invasion of France. I heardhim once talking about lying left in a barn for hours and nearly bleeding to death, until he was finally found by a pair of medics. In winter 44/45 they had to flee from east Prussia from the Red Army. I think 1 or 2 of his brothers fell during the war and I think one of his siblings also died on the flight. Another great-uncle was a quite decorated soldier, however.

A great-aunt paternal side did serve as a secretary in the occupied Ukraine. God knows what orders she recorded... the area where she worked at a Jewish population of roughly 20000 before the war. Guess what was left over after the German troops left. My father said, even years after it (in the 60s/70s) she wanted him to listen to march music. There have been some more nazis in this branch of the family, i've seen quite some photos of people wearing Wehrmachts- or Hitler youth uniforms in an album.
My great-grandfather served in some kind of airborne unit. No parajumpers, however. They jumped ot of Ju53 flying very closely over fields.
My grandmother paternal side was a child at that time and was in Hamburg during the firestorm in 1943. Her legs were scarred for her whole life because she got burned. We still own the chinaware they could rescue in suitcase. It was all that was left for them.

[Whacker]

My maternal grandfather was in the US Army, I don't know a whole lot about him or what he did. I know he fought on Cebu, and at one point was trapped behind enemy lines for a week. He brought back a Japanese rifle that still had the Chrysanthemum on it, which mom gave me. Unfortunately he died of lung cancer long before I was born, and my maternal grandma is long since dead as well. Mom will have to tell me what she knows one of these days.

My paternal grandfather was a signalman and a cook, and he served on two destroyers in the Pacific, I don't have the names of them handy. Grandma gave me a lot of his stuff, including his tags, ribbons, pictures, a few other things. I haven't gone back and traced the deployments of the two ships he was on, but the family is most certain that he saw some action, probably against kamikazes, but he never talked about it. He was pretty messed up thoughout his life, dad wasn't on good terms with him so I never knew him or grandma too well, he died back in 2004. Dad and a good family friend who was in Vietnam both think that a lot of his problems were because of his experiences during the war.