The WWII Relatives thread

My grand mother was a telephone operator in London during World War II. She was the one that patched through the call that Rudolf Hess was captured. She will talk about how they had to stay at the switchboard until they head the explosions, then run out the door into the trenched dug outside. When the bombing was done they ran back in to help coordinate responses. About 20 years ago we were sitting in my parents house when there was an airshow. All of a sudden she gets this look of horror in her eyes and runs downstairs. A German WWII bomber was in the airshow and before she even realized it she was downstairs taking cover.

My grampa never served in WWII for medical reasons, but all three of his brothers did. Lester was in Italy, Swede was in the army doing cleanup work (ha ha) behind the marines in the Pacific. He never was right afterwards. Their other brother never talked about it to anyone. I don't even remember where he was. I believe he was also in the Pacific theater, but I believe he was a Marine.