Anyone have any more WW 2 veterans stories that they can share here?

My family is British and my parents grew up in wartime London during the battle of Britain except when my mother was evacuated LTC (Join to see). My father lost his uncle, who was a WWI British army veteran of the trenches in France and Belgium when a German bomb destroyed his home during the Battle of Britain. My uncle George was killed with his wife. Their two youngest children survived - one in a closet and the other hiding under a table.
My father described the excitement of finding unexploded ordnance early in the war out in the country and of some middle school boys helping a teacher put out the fire caused by incendiary bombs hitting the school roof on the weekend.
After the war, my mother's family took in a former concentration cap prisoner named Cashik [spelling?] who was a Slav and was sentenced to Treblinka because he was a Slav. I met him in the 1960s and by then he was very quiet with eyes which had obviously seen too much.

LTC (Join to see), my father, LTJG Jack D. Curlee (now deceased) served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Here's a photo of my father with his brother, Brooks (at left), in Pasadena, CA on 1JAN46, just before they went to the Rose Bowl.
My father had just returned from the South Pacific, and was in San Francisco, preparing to assist in the decommissioning of his ship, U.S.S. LST-78. His brother, who had been wounded and MIA with the 70th Infantry Division (Trailblazers) in Europe, was stationed at Camp Ross in Wilmington, CA.
What are the chances that brothers stationed in opposite parts of the world could end up so near each other and go to a football game together?! By the way, the University of Alabama beat the University of Southern California 34-10.
Here's an ironic twist for you. Both my father and uncle graduated from Auburn! COL Jean (John) F. B.

While on Funeral Detail, I met a WW2 Vet who lost his hand. His hand was chopped off by a JAP in the Pacific Battle Front...