Are there any WWII vets out there..?

I would really love to read your stories and accounts from WWII, please could you let me know where I can find these?

 

Carly
you could try the BBC series of wartime stories - it is now archived and one of the best tales I found was by a man's daughter who wrote up his notes of how he started off and served in the BEF - Middle East - Italy and survived to go home and raise a family
It's well worth hunting for and is in two parts - and it's called - "From Mold to St.Valery - El Alemein and Italy - that sums up all you want to know about veterans of that conflict - to my way of thinking anyway
Cheers

 

Carly - here's the link for the BBc series archive - good hunting

BBC - WW2 People's War - British Army Category

try British Army tales -theres hundreds of them
Cheers

 

oh boy wait till sapper and ron see this hee hee, welcome to the forum, there are still several wwII vets on this forum

 

my grandad kept a diary maybe u may wish to know stuff he served at pegasus bridge

 

welcome
please post on the forum,members will be most interested

 

my grandad kept a diary maybe u may wish to know stuff he served at pegasus bridge

Please, do share

 

Welcome to the forum Carly79 - plenty of veterans on the forum, including Tom Canning who posted earlier.

These guys have all/mostly donated their stories and accounts, and Tom gives an indication of where you can find them. Or, if you haven't already, try a 'search' on this site, you will find lots of references to the material you are after!

Best,

Steve.

 

I would imagine most of them would not know how to use computers and such. But then again there would be some out there.

 

Before this goes any further, one of the "would not know how to use computers and such" brigade posted this. Required reading for all newcomers.

All the vets, including myself, have written thousands of articles about their experiences and have given their views on many controversial subjects.

Before you write to us asking for further information do us at least the courtesy of reading what we have previously written.

If you then have a particular question that you feel has not been answered, by all means enter into the discussion on the site so that we may all benefit from the points raised.


And yours was the most pedantic and ignorant post I saw here in many a moon. Yes sir, a nice start!

 

ZA -
you beat me to it - as I recall starting on turning the company onto computers back in 1966 -with massive IBM 360's - probably before this ignorant upstart was born although he is probably heading for the Diplomatic Corps- I expect Ron - Sapper - Niccar and many more to shoot him down also..
Cheers

 

I would imagine most of them would not know how to use computers and such. But then again there would be some out there.

Wow you're speaking of them like they're idiots or something. Obviously I can't speak for them, but if I were a vet. I'd be kind of offended....

 

None of my grandparents know how to turn on a computer and most of my friends grandparents don't know either. So I'm just speaking from that thought. No, the ones who do know how to use a computer aren't idiots but there are older people out there that don't know because they were never shown at school and it gets too confusing for them.

 

I would imagine most of them would not know how to use computers and such. But then again there would be some out there.

Absoloutely unbelievable i can't believe what i have just read get a grip young man and show some respect the so called those who can't use computers will probably show you a thing or too.Get in the real world son.

 

Absoloutely unbelievable i can't believe what i have just read get a grip young man and show some respect the so called those who can't use computers will probably show you a thing or too.Get in the real world son.

okay looks like I'm not alone in being offended and baffled by this statement.

 

fb92

I would imagine most of them would not know how to use computers and such. But then again there would be some out there.


Purely for the record.

On the 17th April 1989 (I believe that was over 22 years ago) and after one year's extensive study on the Open University I received a certificate to say that I had passed a course on the Fundamentals of Computing.

Some months before I had reached my 66th birthday and I must confess that I found the three hour exam pretty exhausting at the time.

If it is not too rude, might I ask your present age and what computing qualifications you hold ?

One of "Them"

Ron Goldstein

 

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None of my grandparents know how to turn on a computer and most of my friends grandparents don't know either. So I'm just speaking from that thought. No, the ones who do know how to use a computer aren't idiots but there are older people out there that don't know because they were never shown at school and it gets too confusing for them.

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FB92

Have a look at your first post ,it could possibly have been worded differently.
If you do a search on the forum you will find plenty of veterans on here with a plethora of information on their WW2 service.

 

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Aaron, might I suggest a little respect.

For my fellow forum members, this is not indicative of all the NZ population. As a NZ'er I offer my apologies.