The Welcome Wagon - German Style

[Junkyard36]

Speaking of black sheep, I have an old western outlaw down my family tree - that resulted in our last name being changed!

So they chose "Junkyard" as the better name?

Yep - dropped "Dog" from the end and fooled everybody!


As for my Great - Great Grandfather, what's funny is that he dropped a single letter and evidently it did fool everybody back in the late 1800's. Skipped town, made the dramatic name change and never got caught. Went from Gready to Grady. A relative who was digging around, doing genealocical research made the connection.

Just one of those things I guess.

Mike

[Jesse C.]

We have some guy named Zapata in our family tree.

Great aunt used to tell us about him and how when his guys came into town most families would disguise the young girls as boys so they would leave them alone.

First time the Army used planes in actual action was in Mexico!

[Nathan]

This pic was posted on a Drag Racing board by one of the relatives of one of the boys in the pic.

We all have some black sheep in our past.

My mom had an Uncle that fought for Germany and survived the war. He did what he had to for his country, we never considered him a "Black Sheep" or otherwise.

They were humans too. I don't hate the Germans...just didn't like what some of them stood for. A lot of those soldiers were just fighting for their country just like we did.

[gregv]

I think it is a10.5cm Flak 38 or 39 as the Germans didn't use a 120mm gun and it doesn't look large enough to be the 12.8cm gun

Thanks for the correction, its been a while since I looked into the bigger German guns...

cheers

greg v.

[gary1954]

I lived in Germany for five years. I was stationed at a little airfield called Fliegerhorst which meant Flyers Nest. It is located north of Hanau, which is 19KM northeast of Frankfurt. On one cold winter day, we departed the airfield in a UH1H so the departure was nice and easy. As I looked down and across the landscape, I was in awe of the number of bomb craters that still covered the surrounding grounds. This was in 1980. Near the main hangars, were four flak gun positions left over from WWII. I met several old warriors of the German Army during the Big Two. These men were like our combat veterans. They were genuine men, who had seen the horror of war down on the ground, and told me of their dislike for the chain of command in the way they treated their soldiers and the civilians. I was also told by many, that they knew the war was over, but the chain of command at the Eagles Nest didn't want to quit, said he was crazy, nuts in the head, stuff like that. It was their job to try and stop us from Victory. And they knew that Victory, was our job, just as it is now, and forever will be. Win or loose, You find the cost of freedom buried in the ground.