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Would have been incredible to have happened in AoE2
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Mar 23, 2023 23:28
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Aztecs: "What a strange trick"
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Mar 23, 2023 23:29
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crush'd by its own projectl ...ehh probably needs more workshopping but I'm tired
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Mar 23, 2023 23:31
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The inventor of corn flakes likely gave an enema to Emelia Erhardt.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:39
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Inzombiac posted:Emelia Erhardt. good username
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Mar 24, 2023 02:44
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John Lee posted:good username lmao whoopsie. Gonna leave my shame there.
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Mar 24, 2023 02:48
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Emelia Ersatz
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Mar 24, 2023 02:51
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Amelia Earnhardt Dale Earhart
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Mar 24, 2023 02:54
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My dad, in WW2, sat up in the attic with his brother, trying to work out if they were sufficiently jewish to worry about the nazis invading. Apparently they were a generation off and thus real people. One of my uncles was Polish and lost the use of one arm in the Warsaw Uprising. Another of my uncles was this guy, and I wish I'd talked to him more.
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Mar 24, 2023 03:47
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Considering the enema we can rule out airfart for certain
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Mar 24, 2023 03:52
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Two of my great uncles and one grandfather killed Nazis but apparently not enough based on grandchildren itc
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Mar 24, 2023 04:02
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my grandpas were in wars and also i miss them
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Mar 24, 2023 04:26
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Unkempt posted:My dad, in WW2, sat up in the attic with his brother, trying to work out if they were sufficiently jewish to worry about the nazis invading. Apparently they were a generation off and thus real people. I guess this was pretty common. Was just reading an article* last night about the genealogical collection at the library of Frederiksberg, which was apparently started in 1934 and the number of transactions doubled during the German occupation. * https://www.frederiksbergshistorie.dk/frederiksbergeren/genealogisk-samling-pa-frederiksberg-bibliotek (in Danish)
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Mar 24, 2023 06:33
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Peanut Butler posted:my grandpas were in wars and also i miss them I like this thread title a lot
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Mar 24, 2023 12:31
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My grandma installed radios in airplanes during WWII.
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Mar 25, 2023 01:27
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My Grandpa was in the Pacific Theater, mostly doing rear eschalon technical stuff like repairing radios and stringing up comm lines behind the front. Never talked too much about it, from what I gather he teared up when he visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial so I guess he was witness to some harrowing stuff.
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Mar 25, 2023 01:50
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondboIwZSdQ thanks for this song btw, i didnt know it before. its a bit of a pretty picture, there were a lot of collaborateurs, but thankfully there were many more in the resistance. some things i know or have heard growing up on the danish coast near sweden: many jews did pay to be transported to sweden. no idea what the price could be, but ive also never heard any jew nor resistance member say the price was high so make of that what you will. some sources say it was evened out so rich paid more than poor and the destitute were free. the money was mainly used for payoffs, larger ships (one was hired in grenå, jutland) and life insurance for those involved. but im sure there was skim as well, it seems unlikely if there wasnt. there was a guy in my hometown who built a very fancy house shortly after the war. the locals called it "the synagogue", implying that he built it for money he overcharged or skimmed from the jews. i dont know if the allegations are true, but he hanged himself in the 1970s. also heres some links for historians and family members: the danish jewish museum has created a database of all those who were registered by the swedes when they arrived from denmark. search results link to pdf files scanned from swedish archves, let me know if you need translations (privately is fine): http://safe-haven.dk the national museum of denmark has a database of resistance members and more: http://modstand.natmus.dk e: also i have a bunch of lists of which ships sailed when and their captains, photos etc, kept by my grandmas brother. obvs not gonna share those here, but if you have a reasonable question pm me Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 02:02 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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One of my grandpas lived in Karelia, fought against the Russian invasion of Finland, was badly wounded by shrapnel, survived that, had lots of kids, but still died before I ever met him. The other one was so young he was drafted but never took part in any fighting, he was a nice guy, avid fisherman and a chain smoker, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Mar 25, 2023 02:13
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Thankfully no nazis in my family. Just regular colonial imperialists like everybody else.
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Mar 25, 2023 11:53
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I had a couple of great great uncles die at Paschendale and the Somme, but I think thats fairly common in Britain. One of them drowned in the mud, I believe, which has upset me ever since I heard about it as a kid.
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Roblo posted:I had a couple of great great uncles die at Paschendale and the Somme, but I think thats fairly common in Britain. I had a great (great?) uncle who survived WW1 but was gassed at the 2nd Ypres and basically couldn't exert himself beyond a slow walking pace for the rest of his life. Another relative on that side of the family was killed at Paschendale. My mum's parents were both too young for service in WW2. My Dad's dad was in the navy - first as a navigator on convoy escorts in the North Sea (which he always shut down talking about by saying it was 'very boring' - make of that what you will), then a shore post doing science stuff on anti-mine hull paints (he was an industrial chemist in civilian life) and then as a 'fixer' engineering officer for the Fleet Air Arm - if operational faults or problems on/with aircraft were reported he'd go aboard to take details and suggest improvements. My Dad's mum was in the ATS and drove ambulances in London during the Blitz. Which probably explained her driving style 50+ years later.
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Mar 25, 2023 15:21
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Pretty sure the first casual swear word my son heard in person was when he asked my dad about Vietnam and my dad told him it was a dumb war and a lot people died for no reason, “but it got me the gently caress out of Alabama”.
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Mar 25, 2023 16:20
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My Great Grandfather was an Austrian Jew who managed to get out of Europe before poo poo went down, ended up joining the air force when the family got to America. He retired as a full colonel after serving for quite a long time, though I'm not too sure how much action he really saw since his listed role in the air force was 'dentist'.
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Not my grandparents, but my Hebrew teacher grew up in Dusseldorf in the 1930s, as a Jewish lesbian. She got sent off to Latvia to avoid Nazi persecution, which obviously didn't work out as planned. So she got sent off to Baghdad, but there was a pogrom. So she finally ended up in Mandatory Palestine, after fleeing for her life three times.
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Mar 25, 2023 18:20
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My grandad on my dad's side passed when I was seven, and some of my most cherished childhood memories are of me sitting on his knee as he told stories about shooting planes down and how when parachutes hit the water the right way they look like giant jellyfish. Wish I could remember more about it, really. Oh, and he was English, so apparently my grandpa may have shot down a lot of your grandpa's when he was in the merchant navy.
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Mar 25, 2023 19:00
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My wife's grandfather was an RAF Hurricane ace in France before Dunkirk and during the Battle of Britain, pictured on the right. https://twitter.com/WWIIpix/status/1033314980349784064 He was South African, and his squadron gave him the extremely badass callsign ZULU  He also had many pictures of him you may have seen before. They were published in a March 21, 1941 Life magazine article titled "The Few."   When you're slaying Jerries all day, RAF brass lets you grow your hair long. But you really should get a haircut before you receive a Distinguished Flying Cross from King George  In order to be considered an ace, you need to have 5 confirmed air victories. He had a unique record where he got 5 confirmed in a day, making him an ace in a day. He repeated this in another day with 8 air victories. Ace in a day, twice. He was shot down three times. Once on his first ace day over France, and a second time during the Battle of Britain. Second time he was badly burned and sustained a serious head injury, both of which shortened his life dramatically. After that he was transferred to Ceylon. Took off from an aircraft carrier miles away from the airfield and immediately had engine troubles. Knowing he wasn't going to make it to land, he radio'd for permission to land on the aircraft carrier. His aircraft was not equipped with carrier landing gear like an arrestor hook, and he had never attempted a carrier landing before. He was granted permission, and somehow managed to land safely on the carrier, describing it in his report extremely British-ly as "RN very pleased with my effort"  Third crash was after taking fire from Japanese fighters in Ceylon, bailing out just 200 feet above ground level. His life after the war was sad and somewhat brief. Went to England to farm, married, had kids and died in his early 60's. He was also abusive and cruel to his family, and all but one of his children became abusive narcissists. Mixed legacy! A genuine war hero who did amazing things in his service career but was not a nice father. He probably had undiagnosed mental illness, likely had lasting brain damage from his several crashes, and almost certainly had lingering PTSD from combat. He had breathing problems ever since his lungs were burned in the second crash, but the brain scramblies were certainly worse. More stories from him and his squadron at the site below, including the one where he splashed three fighters in less than a minute. https://saafmuseum.org.za/one-of-the-few/
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Is there a good source of information / research/ perspective on how the trauma of WW2 impacted that whole adult generation in the late 1940s and 1950s? I haven't watched or read a lot of media from the immediate post-WW2 era, but I find it interesting particularly in a US context where there's a sort of optimistic 'Americana' zeitgeist, but so much of the working adult male population at the time would have been traumatised or physically/medically carrying impacts from the war to some degree.
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Red Bones posted:Is there a good source of information / research/ perspective on how the trauma of WW2 impacted that whole adult generation in the late 1940s and 1950s? idk but I think a lot about my grandad who served. He never talked about it, to the point his own kids never even knew he'd been stationed out in the far east until two decades after his death when his wife died and they went through old photos. He spent the rest of his life post war with severe depression and it's so sad no one knew why.
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One of the few things I'll give baby boomers is that they were raised by a bunch of PTSD addled guys frequently with substance abuse issues.
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Milo and POTUS posted:One of the few things I'll give baby boomers is that they were raised by a bunch of PTSD addled guys frequently with substance abuse issues. And gals!
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canyoneer posted:He was shot down three times. So here's a question for history goons. There's so many stories about all these airmen who got shot down multiple times inside warzones. After you get shot down... What exactly do you do? I mean, you survived, obviously, but do you really just dust yourself off, break out a map and compass, and start walking back to your side of the war? "Johnson! Where the gently caress have you been?!" "Got shot down a bit, sir. Ready to head back up. Got another plane for me?"
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Animal-Mother posted:So here's a question for history goons. There's so many stories about all these airmen who got shot down multiple times inside warzones. After you get shot down... What exactly do you do? I mean, you survived, obviously, but do you really just dust yourself off, break out a map and compass, and start walking back to your side of the war? Depends on exactly where you got shot down. If you were, for example, an RAF fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain you were in luck, almost anywhere you landed you were just a phone call away from being driven back to your home airfield and: Animal-Mother posted:"Johnson! Where the gently caress have you been?!" If you landed in the channel or the north sea your luck was...less good.
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thatbastardken posted:If you landed in the channel or the north sea your luck was...less good. Hey, you could be lucky and land close enough to a floating room equipped with a stocked kitchen. They even had books and chess boards so you wouldn't grow too bored as you waited for rescue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDnSQoneiE
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Animal-Mother posted:So here's a question for history goons. There's so many stories about all these airmen who got shot down multiple times inside warzones. After you get shot down... What exactly do you do? You rely on the French Resistance to evade the largely ineffectual and corrupt (but still dangerous) German occupation forces. The staff of a local café are somehow critical in this endeavor.
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There was a Polish pilot shot down in the Battle of Britain who crash-landed at a country club, and won a game of tennis.
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In a real hurry to get back, I take it.
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Mar 26, 2023 07:37
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Arrath posted:In a real hurry to get back, I take it. And miss out on the chance to become an ace?
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:And miss out on the chance to become an ace? 
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I imagine it was a lot easier to survive being shot down in these contexts since the planes were slower, flew lower, and you were mostly getting shot up with bullets (if big ones) rather than missiles. So a lot of the time it was a mission kill, not "explode and die." It also helped in the RAF's case that they were over friendly territory with well developed travel, so you could be shot down in the morning and in the afternoon, too! Did that happen to anyone?
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