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Art_from_Ark

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146. The only "Big One" any relative of mine was in, that I know of,
Mon May 27, 2013, 11:36 PM
May 2013

was the Civil War, where Great-granddaddy came over from England on the promise of getting citizenship and a 160-acre spread if he fought for the Union Army.

Check in if your dad was in The Big One! [View all] Manifestor_of_Light May 2013 OP
My dad was in the Army, served at the Battle of the Bulge mainer May 2013 #1
My dad used to say that, too! femmocrat May 2013 #57
Navy Volunteer 1942 bluemarkers May 2013 #106
Yes-served in Panama with 1200 other Army personnel Boomerproud May 2013 #2
Mine had five kids and worked in a shipyard during WWII lpbk2713 May 2013 #3
I had an uncle who died from asbestosis flyingfysh May 2013 #8
My dad was army air corp too. All i recall was that he was an aircraft mechanic in Africa geckosfeet May 2013 #4
My grandpa was as well OriginalGeek May 2013 #183
Mine spent the entire war in Arizona flyingfysh May 2013 #5
Artillery Marine. Baitball Blogger May 2013 #6
Semper Fi! gademocrat7 May 2013 #80
My mom and dad both served during WWII. Scuba May 2013 #7
i am a 5th generation american male arely staircase May 2013 #9
Mine was WW1, infantry. nt bike man May 2013 #10
Mine too. zeemike May 2013 #77
Father in Pacfic ground pounder...island hopper. Historic NY May 2013 #11
both parents, grandparents and just about everyone else who could hold a weapon or carry a message. loli phabay May 2013 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest May 2013 #13
WWII Navy legal officer @ Pearl Harbor, elleng May 2013 #14
Father in Europe WWIi mainstreetonce May 2013 #15
Aunt an Army (?) nurse in France, elleng May 2013 #16
Yup Bobcat May 2013 #17
My father was in the Navy..and ISLANDS REALLY HAD TOPLESS MAIDENS WITH GRASS SKIRTS! angstlessk May 2013 #18
Mine kind of backed in to the whole thing Warpy May 2013 #19
My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge proud2BlibKansan May 2013 #20
Mine too. n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #24
father in law of blessed memory was at the Bulge too. irisblue May 2013 #30
My dad was the same, "it was COLD !", and he was 27 at the time nt steve2470 May 2013 #169
Army Air Corps enlightenment May 2013 #21
Mine was a B-17 tail gunner William Seger May 2013 #22
Yes. 1st Army. Shot in the head in Belgium in 1945. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #23
my grandfather was one of the Dunkirk soldiers Skittles May 2013 #25
Oh yes. Bluenorthwest May 2013 #26
My grandfather was BainsBane May 2013 #27
My dad was probably stationed with your dad! Samurai_Writer May 2013 #189
my grandfather BainsBane May 2013 #194
yes catrose May 2013 #28
My father was a machine gunner in Patton's 3rd army. erinlough May 2013 #29
Yep. My dad was in the Second World War. 551st AAA AW Bn. Battery B. Cooley Hurd May 2013 #31
Father was in the Navy in Korean war... cascadiance May 2013 #32
? A Japanese torpedo in the Korean conflict confuses me. bike man May 2013 #197
My dad wasn't but my mom's only brother malaise May 2013 #33
VB-104, PB4Y (Navy Liberators) crewman. Long range reconnaissance and bombing brewens May 2013 #34
My Dad, Both of my FIL's, 3 of 4 uncles Greybnk48 May 2013 #35
My Dad was a seargent in the Marine Corps. chieftain May 2013 #36
I only know about my dad's dad. sakabatou May 2013 #37
Battle of the Bulge. Silver and Bronze Stars. RIP, Daddy. WinkyDink May 2013 #38
Navy LST Sherman A1 May 2013 #39
Pops was drafteed into the Navy the same day he graduated from UCLA Brother Buzz May 2013 #40
my father was in New Guine during WwII, great grandfather fought for France in WWI benld74 May 2013 #41
Father in the NAVY, Pacific theater. Intelligence. Shrike47 May 2013 #42
It was not automatic nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #47
My dad was a college graduate, and a second year dental student when the war broke out. bmbmd May 2013 #116
Yes, that is not an unusual nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #118
OCS was first a seventeen week school, then shortened to twelve weeks Brother Buzz May 2013 #150
My Father was in the Navy. texanwitch May 2013 #43
My grandfather was accidentally shot during basic training in WWI LeftInTX May 2013 #44
A lot of people were injured in training or killed. texanwitch May 2013 #48
Served in Patton's army. edbermac May 2013 #45
My Father always said the same thing Awknid May 2013 #104
Dad was in the polish resistance, later in the Army nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #46
Dad and 4 uncles served in the Army. Elwood P Dowd May 2013 #49
Second Armored Division YarnAddict May 2013 #50
No, too young treestar May 2013 #51
My father - Army - D-Day +1, Utah Beach. lamp_shade May 2013 #52
Yes, my father was in the Navy during 1944-45. TexasTowelie May 2013 #53
My dad served in WWI, but my cousin served in WWII. Cleita May 2013 #54
How about if your spouse was? Mine was. marybourg May 2013 #55
My dad served in the Pacific. femmocrat May 2013 #56
Mine did! PasadenaTrudy May 2013 #58
No, but grandpa was shanti May 2013 #59
Mine was in both WWII and Korea tnlurker May 2013 #60
My dad was in the Army Air Corps Mr.Bill May 2013 #61
1st Marines Imalittleteapot May 2013 #62
Navy - oil tanker and then a mine sweeper starroute May 2013 #63
My father was on the other side spinbaby May 2013 #64
Mine was drafted and ended up in the Pacific. Was such an awful Raine May 2013 #65
USMC socalgal58 May 2013 #66
My Dad, Marines............ mrmpa May 2013 #154
I'm so sorry for your loss... socalgal58 May 2013 #171
Thank you....... mrmpa May 2013 #180
I will ask...... socalgal58 May 2013 #196
my dad was a Merchant Marine during WW2... He is buried in the veterans cemetery in secondwind May 2013 #67
My dad was an army corporal. narnian60 May 2013 #68
Electrical maintenance in the Navy. VPStoltz May 2013 #69
Dad was in Navy revolution breeze May 2013 #70
Dad turned 18 in 1945 and enlisted in the Navy TlalocW May 2013 #71
My late dad was in the European Theatre during World War II rury May 2013 #72
my dad was in the navy. DesertFlower May 2013 #73
My father was an Army medic. CBHagman May 2013 #74
My dad was an army sergeant in the Philippines. n/t dsharp88 May 2013 #75
Mine too! kiva May 2013 #131
356 Fighter Group, 8th Army Air Corps watrwefitinfor May 2013 #76
Yep. Navy signal core. Served on an LST. nt rrneck May 2013 #78
My father was lost at sea when the USS Langley was sunk WHEN CRABS ROAR May 2013 #79
my dad & uncle were both in the army hopemountain May 2013 #81
My dad was a conscientious objector in England, and dug up unexploded bombs. wial May 2013 #82
My dad helped make tank engines sarge43 May 2013 #83
My Father worked in a shipyard before going into the Navy. texanwitch May 2013 #121
My father was a flight engineer on a PBY in the Pacific theater Playinghardball May 2013 #84
My dad was in the old Army Air Corp and switched when they went to the Air Force. southernyankeebelle May 2013 #85
Yesterday my 93 year old WWII vet dad told me this story about how he went around the world wellstone dem May 2013 #86
My father-in-law was a survivor of the Bataan Death March derby378 May 2013 #87
1st Marine Division, Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa tularetom May 2013 #88
I have a cousin whose ship was torpedoed Auggie May 2013 #89
My dad was a MSgt airplane engine mechanic, who rode a Harley all over Europe in order to patrice May 2013 #90
Medic in Battle of the Bulge. ErikJ May 2013 #91
proud of all the men in my life handmade34 May 2013 #92
Mine too, same wars. Adsos Letter May 2013 #152
Not dad but grand dads deutsey May 2013 #93
Me too - DAR Awknid May 2013 #136
Navigator on a B-24 needledriver May 2013 #94
Very tail end of the baby boom... Thor_MN May 2013 #95
My Dad was in the Navy and with the first troops into Japan kiranon May 2013 #96
not my Dad, but my Uncle was signalman on the ship that the Japanese signed the surrender on. dionysus May 2013 #97
Recon outfit wilsonbooks May 2013 #98
My dad was a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific theater.nt DevonRex May 2013 #99
My Dad, Navy destroyer, fire control chief lapfog_1 May 2013 #100
He was a Tech Staff Seargent... Went into France D-day +5. . annabanana May 2013 #101
My dad was off Omaha Beach CincyDem May 2013 #102
Machine Gunner, Btry "D", 462d Prcht FA Bn graywarrior May 2013 #103
My dad was a bombardier on a B-17 JustinBulletin May 2013 #105
Army - in the Pacific. tomg May 2013 #107
Dad was Army Corp of Engineers 1942-1945 azurnoir May 2013 #108
my dad was in korea rdking647 May 2013 #109
USAAF - B25 pilot Poiuyt May 2013 #110
My dad went through med school and was a Navy Doctor ashling May 2013 #111
My Dad served in the Army . . . The Philipines! An 18 year old who had never been away from North Liberal In Red State May 2013 #112
Dad was in the Merchant Marines WWII Harry Monroe May 2013 #113
What $1000/month stipend is that? My WWII vet marybourg May 2013 #139
Mine joined the Navy in 1943 snort May 2013 #114
My dad was in WWII FarPoint May 2013 #115
My dad played football outta Farragut idaho Bennyboy May 2013 #117
My dad was too young, but my father in law was. senseandsensibility May 2013 #119
Never met my dad......... Ernesto May 2013 #120
Sorry. Here's to your dad, and all wounded and killed soldiers. Hoyt May 2013 #165
My Grandfather fought in WWII and Korea Chisox08 May 2013 #122
My father was a bombardier in Europe and... MarianJack May 2013 #123
Navy...Submarines 56miSSie May 2013 #124
Gen X here Spider Jerusalem May 2013 #125
BOTH my parents! immoderate May 2013 #126
My grandfather Hayabusa May 2013 #127
not a boomer tabbycat31 May 2013 #128
Mine enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor dflprincess May 2013 #129
If you've never seen the cramped space the tail gunner had, check out bike man May 2013 #199
Thank you! dflprincess May 2013 #200
My Dad, my 4 uncles Euphoria May 2013 #130
My Dad was a Coal Miner with eight kids, yortsed snacilbuper May 2013 #132
Another one with both parents having served. Jim Lane May 2013 #133
Here! Both Parents. bvar22 May 2013 #134
Dad was born in 1897 so he missed ww2 madokie May 2013 #135
my dad was in the Navy, barbtries May 2013 #137
My father was nine Jenoch May 2013 #138
Asst. Quartermaster on a mine sweeper SteveG May 2013 #140
My late father served as a Navy fighter pilot premium May 2013 #141
My father and his brother both tried to enlist. My father was too deaf to make it in, which dimbear May 2013 #142
Both my parents served - Dad Navy submariner, Mom Navy Nurse csziggy May 2013 #143
Yes, he was in the army ohheckyeah May 2013 #144
My Letter From Iwo Jima otohara May 2013 #145
The only "Big One" any relative of mine was in, that I know of, Art_from_Ark May 2013 #146
They wouldn't let my dad enlist because he was an engineer for Grumman Zorra May 2013 #147
Close... Libertas1776 May 2013 #148
My dad was in the Navy VA_Jill May 2013 #149
US Navy 1941-1945 Chipper Chat May 2013 #151
Dad was lucky Adam-Bomb May 2013 #153
Just my father in law... on the German side... Pelican May 2013 #155
... handmade34 May 2013 #164
My Dad didn't have to go. joesdaughter May 2013 #156
My dad is the reason your dads got paychecks. SheilaT May 2013 #157
My Daddy served from 1941 through V-E Day and beyond. Are_grits_groceries May 2013 #158
Mine was designated an essential war worker... Princess Turandot May 2013 #159
My dad was with the Quartermasters Skidmore May 2013 #160
My grandpa and great uncle both fought on the German side. redgreenandblue May 2013 #161
Army Air Corps- Radio operator- Shot down over Germany- POW OKNancy May 2013 #162
My dad, his 4 bros., and even my grandfather were in WWll chelsea0011 May 2013 #163
My dad was drafted in 1944 and put in the signal corps eridani May 2013 #166
My dad attained the rank of Captain in the Army, 3rd Armored Division under Patton steve2470 May 2013 #167
Proud to say mine was! Bonobo May 2013 #168
Dad served in the Navy, his brothers in the Army and Marines pinboy3niner May 2013 #170
My dad served in the US Air Force on a small base on some tiny island near Okinawa. DCBob May 2013 #172
My Dad was a WWII Navy Vet, served in South Pacific on USS Montrose -- Survived Kamikaze attacks whathehell May 2013 #173
My dad was career Air Force (Army Air Corp) panader0 May 2013 #174
kick nt steve2470 May 2013 #175
Not exactly. He joined in 1946. no_hypocrisy May 2013 #176
Seabee World War II n/t Lebam in LA May 2013 #177
Dad in Pacific Theater WWII, Grand-dad in Great War (WWI). n/t BumRushDaShow May 2013 #178
My dad got in at the very end customerserviceguy May 2013 #179
Mine taught Naval Air Navigation COLGATE4 May 2013 #181
Recently deceased Father in law was in North Africa, Cicely, and Italy. yourout May 2013 #182
My father was in Ireland, cheering on the Germans AngryAmish May 2013 #184
Today of all days... cilla4progress May 2013 #185
Yup. He was a Marine Raider, 1st Marine Division first wave on Guadalcanal. Dropped out of HS catbyte May 2013 #186
Hi, friend. See #190 lapislzi May 2013 #191
My Dad Flew A B-25 For The Marines In The South Pacific WillyT May 2013 #187
My dad was in the Army for the last 2 years of the war Samurai_Writer May 2013 #188
6th Marine Division lapislzi May 2013 #190
The only thing my dad ever told me was that it "was hotter than hell in the jungle." catbyte May 2013 #195
My father was in south pacific in the US Navy Hobo May 2013 #192
Operation Torch, Invastion of North Africa. kaiden May 2013 #193
No. LWolf May 2013 #198
100th Division Mopar151 May 2013 #201
Yes, radio man in the Navy PearliePoo2 May 2013 #202
My dad was not a hero and would have laughed at the thought. LynnTTT May 2013 #203
My Dad is 93. A Marine in the Pacific - Saipan, Tinian, IeShima, Okinawa, Occupation Nagasaki Zen Democrat May 2013 #204
nobody in my family served during WWII Bombero1956 May 2013 #205
My Dad is 84....he got his mother to sign... prairierose May 2013 #206
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