The WWII Relatives thread

Both my Grandfathers served. On my Mom's side in the Pacific. He was an anti-aircraft gunner. He had a great picture on his nightstand of him sitting in the gun but I don't know what happened to it after he passed away.

On my Dad's side he was in Europe. Was at D-Day and was wounded there. He went on the make the rank of Sgt. Major (his CO had to fly to Washington and appear before Congress to get that rank for him because it was a rank that just wasn't given to black men in the 50's), was the highest ranking NCO in Europe for a while, served in Korea and finally retired after over 30 years of service.

To this day I love sitting and listening to his stories about WW2. He was on the front lines and really saw and experienced some amazing things.