whats the most horrific story your grandfather ever told you about World War 2

He didn't, he died.

Zathic

that's sad :(

Does world war 1 count?

After battles they used to send out nurses with carts to pick up all the bodies they could. My great grandfather was severley wounded and uncocious when he got thrown onto one of these things after a fight. He woke up in a massive pile of corpses and screamed until the nurse heard him.

He mainly told me about all the bad ass stuff he did...

Im pretty sure most of his buddies from the war made it too. They were 5 or 6 of them that were always over at his place when he was alive.

Sorry to hear your about grandfather's his friend.

I only have a happy one. Both of my grandpas were in the war, my italian one had to hide from the nazis, while my german had to fight for them. Luckily my german grandpa got captured by the french (about 2 years after WWII he was released). My german grandpa had a farm in germany, where my grandma was at. Now heres the interesting part--- They got two french paratroopers (now im not clear on the facts, either the troopers fell from the sky or the nazis gave them to my grandma), if they got them from the government they were supposed to be used as slaves. But my grandma was nice and as long as they worked on the farm (she worked hard too!) they would get food to eat and a bed to sleep in.

BTW when my german grandpa came back after the war, my mom says he has never (or very very rarely) spoken of it.

my great grandfather was in WWII and he was on a boat with jets taking off. on of the gets was taking off and one of the chains was not undone it snaped and whiped around injuring 5 people including him sliced 1 guy in half. another guy had his leg sliced off and my great grandfather broke both his legs and was sent back home to the Ottawa hospital where he recovered and was finished serving in the war.psn_Jaimzl

wow that is horrific but its good to hear stories from both sides of the war :)

He survived the D-Day landings.

He passed away about 5 or 6 years ago. :(

he had to hide in the mountains (with my grandma and my older aunts) or the japanese would have captured/killed them. Xeros606

[QUOTE="Xeros606"]he had to hide in the mountains (with my grandma and my older aunts) or the japanese would have captured/killed them. jaydough

both my parents are filipino.

My grandfather wasnt able to speak, he was in a POW camp and had his tongue cut off.

When he came back from the war, he was dilusional/couldnt speak or anything.

Mkavanaugh77

was he in a Japanese pow camp ?

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Treflis

that is amazingly sneaky

[QUOTE="jaydough"][QUOTE="Xeros606"]he had to hide in the mountains (with my grandma and my older aunts) or the japanese would have captured/killed them. Xeros606

both my parents are filipino.

some of my older relatives had to do that, though my grandfather who fought in the war became a POW.

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Treflis

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Treflis

Your grandfather must have been Sam Fisher:P

[QUOTE="Treflis"]

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Blu_Falcon37

Your Grandfather sounds like a cool guy.

Now my entire family is Norwegian so I can't say I can toss up a story about D-Day, Iwo Jima and so on. However I do have several stories as my Grandfather was in the Resistance group during World War 2 when German forces occupied Norway, I'll tell you one for now.

At that time my Grandfather lived in a very small town where you had to take a boat across a rather large fjord, basically a canyon river, to reach the town. He knew how to row and when the germans sat up a base some distance away on the other side of the fjord the soldiers would occassionally head to the town for beer and decent food. For rations of army food and even other stuff, he would take a couple of soldiers in his boat and row them back to town. Now the thing is, underneath where all the german soldiers were sitting, he actually had a communication radio and a handgun hidden. He also had a knife hidden at the front of the boat, behind him technically. On some occassions there would be a german soldier that had gotten a little too much to drink and wanted back to the base, my grandfather would say he could row him over for free which they always agreed to. However halfways over my grandfather would get his knife, slit the soldiers throath and throw him overboard before rowing back to town. He claimed he had taken 16 german soldiers that way alone, not counting the ones he shot at sabotage missions.

Treflis

wow your grandfather was a one man army :shock:

my grandfather was still a child during World War 2. But I know he was in the vietnam war. he hadn't really told me anything about it.vidplayer8

Same, he said he was in the airforce during Vietnam. That's it.

my grandfather ran engines for ships that sailed round the world a few times. the other one was almost in the Invasion of Japan, so...that.

my family has a rather interesting history of avoiding war, actually. my grandfather left after WWII and hadn't fired a shot, and my dad and uncle were almost drafted in Vietnam (my Uncle's number was actually called, but it was near the end of the war so they said he didn't have to go). in fact, I think on both sides the last war my family actually fought in was the Spanish-American War back round the turn of the century (unless I have some poor bastard of an ancestor that fought in WWI...).

Not even my own family praises my grandfather to the point of calling him a one man army or Sam Fisher. xD

But you did what you had to do at those times, he often said he felt guilty for taking away someones father, husband and son during those times. Afterall they were only following orders, like soldiers are supposed to do.

[QUOTE="snakes_codec"][QUOTE="Mkavanaugh77"]

My grandfather wasnt able to speak, he was in a POW camp and had his tongue cut off.

When he came back from the war, he was dilusional/couldnt speak or anything.

Mkavanaugh77

was he in a Japanese pow camp ?

yea

my friends grandfather was in the royal navy in WW2 and he was captured by the Japanese and they torcherd him half to death they tied him to bamboo and let it grow through his body apparently they had a fanatical dislike for Americans Brits & Chinese and treated them terrible .

Not even my own family praises my grandfather to the point of calling him a one man army or Sam Fisher. xD

But you did what you had to do at those times, he often said he felt guilty for taking away someones father, husband and son during those times. Afterall they were only following orders, like soldiers are supposed to do.

Treflis

yeah but that is war mate lives will be lost your grandfather was just doing what he thought was right even the Germans would have respected that ;)