Anyone else with foreign WWII "survivor" relatives?

[Keystone Phil]

Southern Italy was worse-off than Algeria at the turn of the century, so I don't doubt that Mussolini was more successful.

I'll take the word of a woman that actually lived there over the twelve year old Bangledeshi kid that thinks he knows everything.

Did you get what I said?

Apparently I didn't. 

[HappyWarrior]

No foreigners, however my great-grandfather from Missouri fought in the war and got a purple heart at the battle of the bulge.  He tossed a grenade into a German foxhole which exploded and threw shrapnel into his leg.  He had to hide under a damaged German tank until discovered by a US patrol.  After the war he served in the Phillipines on base duty as well as West Germany after that.

[ShadowRocket]

My paternal grandfather was in the Polish Army during the German invasion in September '39 and saw combat. Before getting captured and spending the rest of the war in various labor camps across Germany. And my paternal grandmother was forced into working for a German widow. Who fortunately turned out to be a decent person.

[Smid]

My grandfather flew in the Air Force.

[patrick1]

Nope, Everyone was in the US by then

Maternal Grandfather- USMC- Iwo Jima, Maternal Grandmother- USMC- Washington, DC and Paternal Grandfather-US Army Panama

[Ogre Mage]

I've never had any contact with the part of the family still in Japan and don't even know their names.  I have no idea what their experiences were, though I've heard some died of cancer.

I've known many relatives on the U.S. side, however, who spent WW II at the Minidoka Internment Camp.

[Brittain33]

No, but I bet I'm alone here in having a living relative who "survived" World War I in a foreign country. My grandfather remembers the departure of the Russian Army from his city, followed by the arrival of the Germans, who were much better organized but who behaved aggressively and went from house to house taking everyone's copper for the war effort.

[Hatman 🍁]

I have a friend who had one grandfather in the German army and one in the Canadian army.

[Platypus]

My mum's dad served in the air force up in New Guinea, until he had a crash; he then served in the army. My dad's dad was on the HMAS Castlemaine, mainly around the Coral Sea.

[ag]

Of course - pretty much all my relatives of the certain generation.

My paternal grandfather was in Moscow Air-Defense for the entire war (bar the short period when they were transferred to defend the government when it evacuated to Kuybyshev). My late maternal grandparents spent a big chunk of the war working in the factory that made Katyushas (they'd been evacuated from Moscow on October 16, 1941 - just as the authorities were thinking of abandoning the city). My paternal grandmother was still in high school, but she remembers well the bombing, evacuation, etc.

Actually, until a couple years ago there was a relative alive who had survived a ghetto and a concentration camp in the Baltics (he fled twice!) and then still had some time to fight in the Soviet Army.

[2952-0-0]

My paternal grandfather was quite well off before the war, with a nice piece of farmland just outside Shanghai. He didn't fight, but when the Japanese came everything he had, was lost. Of course, his land would be razed, burned, and then nationalized during the post-war civil war and communist revolution. The grandmother was in school in Sichuan, nowhere near the frontline, but still subject to the Japanese bombings.

The paternal grandfather had been fighting in the Nationalist party for many years. In the 1930s he was taken POW by the communists but treated quite fairly. Then he participated in the fighting around southern China, serving in the army field hospitals. The grandmother was too young to fight, but she remembers the bombing, evacuation, and so forth.