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For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 12:29:54 PM

popeye1250

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.what do you remember about the World War Two years?
Some of you were probably very young at that time but what are your recollections of life during that time?
A lot of people in uniforms, rationing, signs, newspapers?
I find that part of history fascinating and wonder what it might have been like to be around then.

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 12:42:03 PM

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.what do you remember about the World War Two years?
Some of you were probably very young at that time but what are your recollections of life during that time?
A lot of people in uniforms, rationing, signs, newspapers?
I find that part of history fascinating and wonder what it might have been like to be around then.

'Wasn't around, but my mum and dad were and this is what they remember:

Rationing until 1953.
No fruit.
Hearing German bombers going over and dropping bombs on armaments factories.
The black market.
A German prisoner of war camp about 3 miles away.
No decent clothes, women used black pencil to draw on their legs so it looked like they were wearing stockings.
Everyone was employed in some capacity or another in the war effort, women worked in armaments factories, men either went to war or worked down the mines or shipyards for coal, ships etc.
The British traitor Lord Haw Haw being aired on BBC urging the British to surrender.
Probably much more, but I've forgotten.

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 1:03:12 PM

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My parents were born during the war. They were toddlers, so they don't remember it. My grandparents would talk a little about it. My paternal grandfather tried to enlist but was turned down because of a problem with one of his lungs due to some childhood illness. So he worked in the war industry in West Virginia. He said they had blackouts and air raid drills in the Charleston area because it was the chemical processing capital of the United States at the time. My maternal grandfather was Army airborne (I don't know what division he was in.) He was one of the people that was dropped into France before D-Day. He died before I was born, so I never got to meet him. I have the Luger that he brought back. It's not worth as much because he had it nickel plated when he got back. I asked my grandmother if she knew the story behind how he got it, and she said he would never talk about it. I fired a box of shells in it only one time. After I did it, I kind of sat there looking at it wondering who it belonged to originally and how many people met their end because of it.

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 3:15:06 PM

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I doubt there are many seniors here who were adults during WW2 lol

But my story is that a German fighter bomber machine gunned the main road about two/three hundred yards from where I still live. The Schweinhund. lol
Just doing his job I suppose. lol

I was about three/four at the time. Glad he missed me lol

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 3:28:23 PM

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i spent 5 hours talking to my grandmother yesterday...she was an adult durring WW2...she was more than willing to talk about the depression...more than willing to talk about the civil rights momement and violent forced integration (she lived in a small southern town at the time)...its very hard and very emotional to ask her to talk about the war...she worked on an alabama base using a teletype machine durring the war...i don't ask for details...
in the years after the war she lived in an apartment across the hall from a gay couple though...it would be weird, but awesomely cool...ya know...if my grandmother happened to live across the hall from an "old gaurd" couple...lol...she knew they were gay, but no one else did...and it was in a military town...i don't know...

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 3:39:19 PM

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I was 7 when the war started - I remember hearing about pearl harbor on the radio. During the war, my dad worked as a purchasing agent in a plant that built wings for B-29's. We collected tin cans, saved cooking grease (perportedly to make oil for rifles, etc) and collected newspapers - all for salvage. Dad had an "A" gasoline rationing sticker, and we couldn't go too far. Meat and most Dairy foods were rationed. Families that had the space, had "victory gardens" to grow their own vegetables. My favorite toy was a pop gun with a target featuring heads of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo that spun when you hit them. I was at a summer camp when the war in Europe ended, and as a budding trumpeter, I was called upon to play taps at many GI funerals.

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 4:50:05 PM

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Seeks, we're glad they missed you too!
Some nice stories.
My father was on a U.S. Navy Destroyer (U.S.S. Renshaw DD-499) in the S. Pacific during the war so I heard a lot of stories about how it was over there. Not good, a lot of combat.
I remember asking him when I was a boy which country was his favorite over there, he said Australia.
I asked him why. He said; "Because there were no FUCKIN Japs there trying to kill us!"
His ship was torpedoed by a Jap sub on 21 Feb 1945 and 21 were killed and many wounded including my father.
His ship was in Bremerton, Washington being repaired when the war ended.
I still have a ration book that my mother had during the war.
It has a big "A" on it.

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RE: For the Senior Members in here........ - 9/7/2007 5:30:32 PM

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.what do you remember about the World War Two years?
Some of you were probably very young at that time but what are your recollections of life during that time?
A lot of people in uniforms, rationing, signs, newspapers?
I find that part of history fascinating and wonder what it might have been like to be around then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXBDKKpLxw&mode=related&search=

On www.youtube.com you will find some more of these. Maybe one day mankind will be able to find another way of problem solving than throwing bombs everywhere.

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