World War 2 (WWII) Over Today - 7th May 1945

[Mikey]

I highly recommend the book "Ghost Soldiers" which is a historical account of the bataan death march.

I know most of WWII was focused on the brutalities of the Nazis but they treated U.S. POW's much better than the Japanese soldiers did. They had zero sympathy and considered anyone who surrendered a coward.

Oh, I heard many times how the Japs treated their prisoners

They were literally sadistic *******s

I have a Philippino friend ......

Some of his horror story's would haunt anyone forever

[Bo8a_Fett]

It's now on my "to read " list...thx for the pointer ...
good reads are always the "voices" books...that reprints letters or prints anecdotes or thoughts from the Imperial war museums audio archive....a few years ago they started recording memiors of as many vets as they could...before they passed away such as many of the WWI vets have now.....they are amazing insights into the ordinary people (from all sides in the conflict)...both at the front and at home...they've got books out on WWI, WWII (navy, airforce and POW editions) Falklands and Gulf wars.

[Adam West]

My partners grandfathers were also in the war....One in the desert rats fighting at el alamien and the other was held by the japanese and came back a walking skeleton after the way he was treated as a POW..till he died he hated the Japanese for what they done to him but would never say what.

I highly recommend the book "Ghost Soldiers" which is a historical account of the bataan death march.

I know most of WWII was focused on the brutalities of the Nazis but they treated U.S. POW's much better than the Japanese soldiers did. They had zero sympathy and considered anyone who surrendered a coward.

[Bo8a_Fett]

My partners grandfathers were also in the war....One in the desert rats fighting at el alamien and the other was held by the japanese and came back a walking skeleton after the way he was treated as a POW..till he died he hated the Japanese for what they done to him but would never say what.

[Bo8a_Fett]

One of my grandfathers was in a stalag after the battle for monty casino...even though he knew I was war mad he never told me anything about his time in the army...not even to his son (my dad).
My other grandfather was in the merchant navy and he did tell me about the daily threat of u-boats once but that was all.
Both my parents were born during the war and grew up during the blitz ...although too young to remember about it.
My grandfather kept the anderson shelter in the garden after the war and also kept the garden as mainly a veg plot (which most Brits did to supplement rationing).

[monkey tennis]

Whaaaa

You didn't take the bait

[Mikey]

I'm not rising to the bait this time round t1k.....

Whaaaa

You didn't take the bait

[Mikey]

All kidding aside ------------

My neighbour --- also my best childhood buddy ------

His grandfather was an SS Captain in WW2

For all I know his family was killing my family back then ...

Weird

[Bo8a_Fett]

You guys are lucky we saved your asses otherwise yous would be goose-stepping right now

I'm not rising to the bait this time round t1k.....

[Adam West]

My uncle was in WWII and used to talk about it all the time. My father fought in Korea but never said a word.

After my dad died, I asked my uncle why my dad never talked about the war and he told me that my dad never talked about it because he saw some horrific things while my uncle was on a ship that never saw combat.

[Cosmicman]

Captain America was in an iceberg when this happened!

[Mikey]

You guys are lucky we saved your asses otherwise yous would be goose-stepping right now

[Bo8a_Fett]

true....unfortunately too true...

[SUP-Ronin]

99% of ground force vets wouldn't talk about their time in action...unless it was for something like the imperial war museum....where they felt their stories should be told in case people forget the horrors of war

...yet we still manage to ignore the horrors of war.

[Bo8a_Fett]

99% of ground force vets wouldn't talk about their time in action...unless it was for something like the imperial war museum....where they felt their stories should be told in case people forget the horrors of war