Thank you - that sounds about right in my Dad's case. He served 'EREO' in the UK for about 18 months at the beginning of WW2, then rejoined the...
What does "EROE" stand for, in the context: "Maj. Smith to be EREO and granted for pay etc. June 1945"? It's in my Dad's Canadian army records...
Hi Michelle! Many, many thanks for that list of references...as you may remember my Dad was a member of the Canadian Grenadier Guards (22nd...
Just saw the film by William VanderKloot called "Flying the Secret Sky: The Story of the RAF Ferry Command" that came out late last year. These...
I, for one, thought of you Sapper as well as your comrades yesterday - and I am sure I am not the only one here and elsewhere who made a point of...
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Hi Michelle and Kieran...it looks like your dad and mine went along the same path. Very interesting! Like I said earlier, my dad was a tank...
Hello Michelle: My dad was part of the Canadian forces that went through the Falaise Gap with the Canadian Grenadier Guards, in his tank albeit...
Joe: thanks for the input; but as I said, I do not know for sure if the photo I have of my dad was taken in Britain during exercises, or in...
Skipper, I hope you will acknowledge the saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...what some might think of the building of a monument...
Well, you know it is easy to relegate that particular period to the back of our minds, given what was happening and the scale of it all; I mean...
Your post was well timed...yesterday, I thought, was the remembrance of the Allied arrival in Auschwitz, January 27 1945, thereby liberating the...
Well, my Norwegian friend, I guess we'll lose you. Too bad, but I understand. I don't know what our friend told you in Norwegian. Perhaps I'll use...
??? "I can ask my Grandfather, he live in Sachsenhausen from april 42 till may 45 :-)" Wow...your grandfather lived in Sachsenhausen? I hope...
No, I'm far from being twice your age...:cool: but I admit to having a decade or so on you. That doesn't make me a veteran, nor an expert in this...
"The problem I had was with poster, "ctcarlisle" that called the OP "naive" and argued that Hitler would not have had access to women in his role...
Hello Martin: I see you're from London...ah, a city I love...spent 3 years there in the 70's in Greenford, Middlesex starting my career and...
:grumble: I'm sorry, my naive friend, that you find it hard to believe that Hitler didn't have 'free access to women', but I can assure you that...
Sapper:- Hello Brian...been away a bit as my sister (58 only) passed away suddenly just before Christmas and bless her, she left a house full of...
Sapper, I really missed you during the holidays, as I'm sure many did here too. (I know you were seeing your friend off). And, whereas none of us...