Fathers day

[guest311]

@class37025 (and anybody else), can't get the picture up, but the book I mentioned earlier is "Wild Blue" by Stephen E Ambrose.

Turns out he was the same chap who wrote "Band of Brothers".

Skyline2uk

many thanks,

found it .......
bought it ......
now just need to wait for it

[TrevL]

Father's day, apparently is nine months before Mother's day, who'd have thought it

[Bob Tidbury]

My Dad died when I was only 17 ,He was in the army and was down in Southampton Docks and just walking up the gang plank to go abroad when his name amongst others was called out ,they were TOLD to go back on the dock and were sent back to the barracks . My Dad was a farm worker and was then sent back to Henley on Thames where he lived to help teach the land girls how to work on the land and look after the animals .
If he went out any where he was being jeered at and called all sorts of names the mildest of which was that he was a cowerd .But men and women like him were just as important , as those that couldn't fight still had to be fed,  so men and women milked the cows fed the chickens looked after the pigs and sheep .
He also helped fire watching at night and if there was an incedent he was allways there to help .
He met my mum who was a nurse while on fire watch .
Bob Tidbury

[marco neri]

Hi
Here is on 19th March the father's day (festa del papà)
Greetings from Italy.

Marco

[guest311]

@class37025 (and anybody else), can't get the picture up, but the book I mentioned earlier is "Wild Blue" by Stephen E Ambrose.

Turns out he was the same chap who wrote "Band of Brothers".

Skyline2uk

arrived today, and next on my reading list after 617 squadron.

many thanks for the link,

many thanks,

found it .......
bought it ......
now just need to wait for it

[Skyline2uk]

@class37025

You are welcome, hope you enjoy it.

I do have some other books on the Second World War air campaigns, but won't mention them just yet in case this recommendation was a dud 

Skyline2uk

[broadsword]

My Dad died when I was only 17 ,He was in the army and was down in Southampton Docks and just walking up the gang plank to go abroad when his name amongst others was called out ,they were TOLD to go back on the dock and were sent back to the barracks . My Dad was a farm worker and was then sent back to Henley on Thames where he lived to help teach the land girls how to work on the land and look after the animals .
If he went out any where he was being jeered at and called all sorts of names the mildest of which was that he was a cowerd .But men and women like him were just as important , as those that couldn't fight still had to be fed,  so men and women milked the cows fed the chickens looked after the pigs and sheep .
He also helped fire watching at night and if there was an incedent he was allways there to help .
He met my mum who was a nurse while on fire watch .
Bob Tidbury

My mum was forced into the womens army (ATS) she had been working in an arms factory and following an  argument with a manager she jokingly said
she was going on strike. Not a good idea in wartime. One stupid aspect  of WW2 was that coalminers were called up. leading to a labour shortage for the
coal industry with the result that Bevan boys were called up to work in the mines. many of whom had never held a pick or shovel before.

My Dad had joined the TA in 1938, his pal who was a TA sergeant said that when a war comes we'll train the boys who do the actual fighting.
Aye right ! My Dad spent 1942-1945 in North Africa , Sicily and Italy , the soft underbelly of Europe they said.............,

[BobB]

Very interesting reading all of this. We have just emigrated to Russia and got here in time for the march of the immortal regiment - we walk with pictures of those who fought in the world war 2, or as it is called here the great patrioric war. Persons depicted were mainly those no longer with us but the carriers of the pictures were split between  sons, daughters and grandchildren. There werre the occasional widows and perhaps a mother or father.

Very emotional, very important to participants and hardley a trace of commercialism to detract from the feelings for the old ones. I don't seem to be able to become enthusiastic about fathers day.