May 29, 2005

War Stories (1939-1945)
posted by Jerry Junior 19 years ago
  • "...We rely on the discretion of site members to post authentic stories based on their own, honest interpretations of the time. " I played Ultimate with Churchill and the War Cabinet on the lawn of Buckingham Palace. Winston hogged the frisbee.
  • I'd looked round this a bit before JJ, trying to find out a bit more anout my Grandad, who got captured early in the war in the invasion of Crete, spent some years in POW camp and, I was told, managed to escape before the end of the war. It seems the daft thing was it was so close to the fall of Germany that him and two mates he legged it with got home later than them as stayed behind - the camp was liberated soon after whilst him and the boys were first hiding in the pig sty of a kindly and brave German family, then footing it across the continent without much of a clue where they were. Apparently the most dangerous bit was when they met the US forces who eventually repatriated them - just as they walked out of the woods towards the GIs a firefight kicked off with some German troops above them on the hill and they nearly got killed in the crossfire. Stanley Weldon I never knew ye - well, I do kind of remember visiting the chippy you ran in Luton and I have a decent photo of you as part of the football 11 you played for in the camp.
  • One of my grandads was in Siberia before the second war broke out(his father was a revolutionary against the communists) he and a another fellow killed a couple ruskis and took their uniforms. He made it out of there just in time for the begining of the war. His brother, was a spy for the Americans during the second war. But heres a good one. Did the know the blooming Finnish people have trained beepin' dwarves? My other grand father had to fight them, imagine midgits on skis, with machin guns! It just makes me think of Lord of the rings. ha!