Depends on what you call playing a part. My grandfather was taken to Germany as a prisoner and my grandmother had German soldiers in her house. But they never talked about it much. For the rest no heroic actions in the military.

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Many of my family members were in the Yugoslav's partisan army during the World War 2, fighting against the Germans, Italians, Croatian Ustaša army and Serbian Četniks.

My grandfather got bombed during the war so he'd like his Chip shop back.

all my ancestry took a part in the WW2 on the side of the Russian Army. Many of them had die during the time of the war.

My Grand-Uncle served in the Army Air corps and was on a B-24 bomber. He was shot down over Ploesti Roumania and was a POW until the end of the war. He lost most of the men on his plane and he never spoke about the war much.

My friends father was in the 1st ID and landed at Normandy.

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There is no family in my country that didn't play a part in WW2.

My grandparents we're all right in the middle of it. But not in an army or anything. My grandpa had to at the time coz he was 18. So he had to hide, successfully. I've been asking about it a lot and he liked to talk about it. He showed me many pictures he had taken. He lived in Rotterdam which was heavily bombed. He even got pictures of that. Afterwards he had to bug people out of the rumble.

He also told me he had 4 friends who were tied down to the rails and killed. He was hiding in the ditch at the time. He said he could still hear them scream. He showed me a picture of those guys. That was really hmm scary actually.

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unfortunately my grandpa had to take part on the german side. he was forced (and maybe he did it voluntarily because he thought he had to defend his homecountry, I don't know because he never talked about this time) to defend his hometown against english bombers as a so called flakhelfer (flakhelfer is a commonly used term for german students deployed as child soldiers during World War II)

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My grandparents were only children, when the war started, but I know that one of my great-grandfathers was in the army at that time. My grandfather on my father's side of the family became a soldier a few years after the war and was stationed in Western Germany, together with soldiers of other allied countries.

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Oh yeah... my grandmother, she had a farm right next to Antwerp airoport, one winter didn't have enough wood, so she went to the airoport and got off the obstacles from the landing strip for the stove. There was a row among the germans afterward, but seems they didn't discover who had done it.

Daar is de lente, daar is de zon
bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen.
De fallus impudicus staat al in bloei
En de blaadjes krijgen bomen.
M'n vrouw en m'n kat zijn allebei krols
en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome

Yes i have family who fought on both sides. Dads side fought with the Italian army (my grandfather) and moms side with the Americans. (quite a few)

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my grandfather served in the Australian Army in the south pacific and my dad's father served for the RNZA in the pacific as well

yes.. my grandfather was in the war in the end of WW2, and also my great-grandfather. not sure about the whole story about what they did and such though.

My father served in the US Navy in both the Normandy invasion and the occupation of Japan. He died young and my step-father was in the Army in the invasion of Germany and Austria. Both had several battle stars and my step-father had a Purple Heart and was involved in the liberation of a concentration camp.

My Grandpa was a victim of the German policy of military and hate. Like most of the people in his age (born in 1917) he had to took part war at the side of German "Wehrmacht". As I know, he was in the Netherlands, in Poland and Soviet Union. He often was wounded and those injuried ("wandering" shell splinters) he had in his body until the end of his life.
He often told me about the horror of that war and he taught me to save peace and to never fight in an army.

Also my Grandma lived in that time. She often told me about strafers flying through the streets in the village where the family lived and shooting into the windows. My Grandma told me about the end of the war as the first Russian soldiers came into the village and all women were in fear. Some soldiers were in their house, too but as they saw a painting of Last Supper they began to pray.

My grandfather took part in the WW2 (Army).

We're all grown ups now. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

my father was in ww2 he was a master gunnery sargent in the marines they had the biggest bonzi attack of the war against his unit artillery. they killed 4000 japaneze solders that night and only about 5 of are men were still alive in the morning. one was my father he pasted away a year and a half ago. every year they had a reunion here in Green Bay Wisconsin on the 4th of july where they raised the flag and took it down before the foreworks.

My grandfather was in the Air Force during world war 2, he was a pastor who traveled with troops and so on. I believe it was this war that gave him his cancer, I am not sure though. I have all his air force medals and so on.

My father was a flight officer in the then US Army Aircorps. My mother lost two older brothers and several other relatives in the German Armed Forces. Her only surviving brother was a radio man on an Uboat but he died in the early 1950's after my mother had been in the US for several years

An interesting......and perhaps frightening.....statistic is that everyone alive in Europe at the end of WWII has lost at least one blood relative. I lost an uncle.

Polander, you are right. Virtually everyone in Europe was affected. Every day, it seems I read death notices on Americans who served. I guess it was hard not to be involved.

My grandfather (being born in Bermuda) served on a navl ship over in the UK.

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Wrong. Most nordic countries didnt have any losses worth mentioning even if occupied, only Finland were taking much losses during the winterwar.

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My grandfather served in the red cross

Giovanni

@slakker

Your comment: Wrong. Most nordic countries didnt have any losses worth mentioning even if occupied, only Finland were taking much losses during the winterwar.

I should have qualified my remark by saying in this century (20th) and by saying "nearly" every person lost a blood relative. I should have encompassed both World Wars and the lesser conflicts in-between. My bad. However, having said that, I should take note of the Jews that were deported from Scandinavian countries and members of the Norwegian underground who were killed during WWII. However, your point is well taken in the sense that, with the exception of Finland and a few bombing raids on some of the fjords, the Nordic countries really didn't suffer the human losses and the destruction of war as the rest of Europe.

My father was a Staff Sergeant in WW2. He was seriously wounded. Two of my uncles were killed in action in Russia. My eldest brother died on the flight from Poland back to Germany at the end of war. My wifes mother was raped by Russian soldiers.
There was surely more, but most of the old people don't tell too much about war.

On my mother's side (Australian), I had relatives fight against the Japanese in the South Pacific - mostly in the army and with some pretty horrific stories to tell. On my father's side (American), I had two great uncles in the air force - one flew a fighter plane in Europe, and the other was a bomber pilot in Europe as well. My uncle who flew the bomber was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for staying at his controls after his plane was hit by ground fire, allowing all his crew to all bail out before he crashed with his plane.

My late father was a mechanic in the Royal Air Force during WW2. He served in Wales , servicing Sunderland Flying Boats which were used as anti-sub aircraft . His base ( Pembroke Dock ) was a regular target for long range Luftwaffe Bombers. Later on he was transfered to the far east ( India and Burma ) and used to assemble P-47 Thunderbolts, from parts made locally under licence. He was also part of a crash recovery unit. He never talked much about it but i'm very proud of him.

My father served British navy (submarine-torpedo) WWII.
Grandfather in the secret service.

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE WITHOUT PRAYER IS LIKE COMPUTER HARDWARE WITHOUT THE SOFTWARE!!!!!

None that i can think of, but my great grandfather on my dad's side served in WWI

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