When did last WWI and WWII veteran leave service?

[wildcat45]

Just seen a solier on telly, Britain's most decorated soldier. He' sbeen in every camapign since 1982, Falklands, N Irealand, Iraq, Afghanistan.

It got me to thinking.

When did the last serviceman - army navy or airforce - from Wolrd War One leave service? And When did the last WW2 vet retire?

[Sheets Tabuer]

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

[Cupid Stunt]

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

[BruceV8]

The last British serviceman that served in WW2 retired in 1984 as a Major General IIRC.

[MK4 Slowride]

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

[TEKNOPUG]

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

[BruceV8]

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

Eh? Hitler was in an infantry regiment and served as a runner. V dangerous work, that probably implies that he was not very poular.

[TEKNOPUG]

BruceV8 said:

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

Eh? Hitler was in an infantry regiment and served as a runner. V dangerous work, that probably implies that he was not very poular.

Yes, logistics - he was running water to the front line troops. Got a bit of a complex as the posh Bavarian soldiers took the piss out of the Austrian runt and he had "issues" later in life

Something like that anyway

[Snoop Bagg]

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Despite the efforts of the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for them, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not belive the war was over.

On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Norio Suzuki who was traveling the world and told his friends that he was “going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.

The two became friends, but Onoda said that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed place and found a note that had been left by Suzuki.

Suzuki had brought along Onoda’s one-time superior commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.

He surendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan!

Edited by Snoop Bagg on Tuesday 8th June 12:13

[ArtVandelay]

Snoop Bagg said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Despite the efforts of the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for them, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not belive the war was over.

On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Norio Suzuki who was traveling the world and told his friends that he was “going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.

The two became friends, but Onoda said that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed place and found a note that had been left by Suzuki.

Suzuki had brought along Onoda’s one-time superior commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.

He sureendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan!

Impressive, but he's no Bear Grylls or Ray Mears... Hell if Ray Mears had been there he'd have had his own space program developed

They must be very well trained, I can't imagine living in a forest at all. I barely find food in my house never mind in some woods!

[Snoop Bagg]

ArtVandelay said:

Snoop Bagg said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Despite the efforts of the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for them, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not belive the war was over.

On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Norio Suzuki who was traveling the world and told his friends that he was “going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.

The two became friends, but Onoda said that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed place and found a note that had been left by Suzuki.

Suzuki had brought along Onoda’s one-time superior commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.

He sureendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan!

Impressive, but he's no Bear Grylls or Ray Mears... Hell if Ray Mears had been there he'd have had his own space program developed

They must be very well trained, I can't imagine living in a forest at all. I barely find food in my house never mind in some woods!

Allegedly Bear Grylls would have been staying at the Premier Inn down the road!

[CaptainSlow]

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

There's no evidence that he lost a testicle.

[ArtVandelay]

Snoop Bagg said:

Allegedly Bear Grylls would have been staying at the Premier Inn down the road!

Yes but he'd have made a paraglider out of his shower curtain and some coat hangers and a small boat from his mini-bar

[TEKNOPUG]

CaptainSlow said:

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

There's no evidence that he lost a testicle.

An alleged Soviet autopsy on Hitler's remains made shortly after the war claimed Hitler was monorchic, but some[who?] historians dismiss this reference as propaganda. This autopsy was released around 1970. In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account by a World War I army medic, Johan Jambor, was announced in the press. According to these reports, Jambor intimated an account of how he saved Hitler's life after a groin injury in 1916 to a Polish priest and amateur historian, Franciszek Pawlar, in the 1960s. Pawlar's record of the conversation that was discovered by Pawlar's relatives and published by Polish author Grzegorz Wawoczny.[3] According to the German Bild tabloid, a surviving friend of Jambor's, one Blassius Hanczuch, has confirmed the story, adding that Jambor and his co-rescuers dubbed Hitler "screamer" (Schreihals) because, as they were carrying him away, they came under French fire and had to temporarily abandon him, upon which he began to scream very loudly, imploring them to come back and threatening them with court martial if they were to leave him behind.[4]

Records show that Hitler was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, and some sources describe his injury as a wound to the groin. Hitler's World War I company commander has said that a VD exam found that Hitler had only one testicle. Robert G.L. Waite in his book The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler (1978) accepts the accuracy of this evidence:

Since the matter is of considerable importance to the psychological development of Hitler from infancy onward, let us pause here and come to grips with the problem of the Fuehrer's testicles. It can now be affirmed that the British Tommies were right all along in the first line of their version of the Colonel Bogey March, they were although manifestly mistaken in the last—that is to say, unless Goebbels' six children were the progeny of adoption, paternal surrogacy or some hitherto unconsidered, presumably unpalatable "Gott mit uns" form of divine intervention.
The autopsy performed by the Red Army pathologists on Hitler's body... [produced clear] findings:

The left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis...

[illmonkey]

TEKNOPUG said:

CaptainSlow said:

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

There's no evidence that he lost a testicle.

An alleged Soviet autopsy on Hitler's remains made shortly after the war claimed Hitler was monorchic, but some[who?] historians dismiss this reference as propaganda. This autopsy was released around 1970. In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account by a World War I army medic, Johan Jambor, was announced in the press. According to these reports, Jambor intimated an account of how he saved Hitler's life after a groin injury in 1916 to a Polish priest and amateur historian, Franciszek Pawlar, in the 1960s. Pawlar's record of the conversation that was discovered by Pawlar's relatives and published by Polish author Grzegorz Wawoczny.[3] According to the German Bild tabloid, a surviving friend of Jambor's, one Blassius Hanczuch, has confirmed the story, adding that Jambor and his co-rescuers dubbed Hitler "screamer" (Schreihals) because, as they were carrying him away, they came under French fire and had to temporarily abandon him, upon which he began to scream very loudly, imploring them to come back and threatening them with court martial if they were to leave him behind.[4]

Records show that Hitler was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, and some sources describe his injury as a wound to the groin. Hitler's World War I company commander has said that a VD exam found that Hitler had only one testicle. Robert G.L. Waite in his book The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler (1978) accepts the accuracy of this evidence:

Since the matter is of considerable importance to the psychological development of Hitler from infancy onward, let us pause here and come to grips with the problem of the Fuehrer's testicles. It can now be affirmed that the British Tommies were right all along in the first line of their version of the Colonel Bogey March, they were although manifestly mistaken in the last—that is to say, unless Goebbels' six children were the progeny of adoption, paternal surrogacy or some hitherto unconsidered, presumably unpalatable "Gott mit uns" form of divine intervention.
The autopsy performed by the Red Army pathologists on Hitler's body... [produced clear] findings:

The left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis...

They're looking in the wrong place, it's in the Albert Hall.

[Cara van Man]

[CaptainSlow]

TEKNOPUG said:

CaptainSlow said:

TEKNOPUG said:

MK4 Slowride said:

Cupid Stunt said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

A japanese soldier finally surrendered in 1974, he actually had to be commanded by a superior officer to lay down his arms

Was he the person who had been living in a forest or something & had no idea that the war had ended?

He was still on the island he was sent to defend some 30 years later! Laurel & Hardy did a commedy sketch on it (in B&W). Such was the way the Japenese soldiers were trained. Madness.

A question I've had is that there must have been some soldiers who joined at the outbreak of WW1 and managed to survive the whole campaign figting at the front. Wasn't Hitler supposed to have survivied 50 battles (probably st but you get my jist).

Hitler was in logistics (catering corp) - he also gained a nickname of "Screamer" after his testicle was blown off, such is the German sense of humour......

There's no evidence that he lost a testicle.

An alleged Soviet autopsy on Hitler's remains made shortly after the war claimed Hitler was monorchic, but some[who?] historians dismiss this reference as propaganda. This autopsy was released around 1970. In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account by a World War I army medic, Johan Jambor, was announced in the press. According to these reports, Jambor intimated an account of how he saved Hitler's life after a groin injury in 1916 to a Polish priest and amateur historian, Franciszek Pawlar, in the 1960s. Pawlar's record of the conversation that was discovered by Pawlar's relatives and published by Polish author Grzegorz Wawoczny.[3] According to the German Bild tabloid, a surviving friend of Jambor's, one Blassius Hanczuch, has confirmed the story, adding that Jambor and his co-rescuers dubbed Hitler "screamer" (Schreihals) because, as they were carrying him away, they came under French fire and had to temporarily abandon him, upon which he began to scream very loudly, imploring them to come back and threatening them with court martial if they were to leave him behind.[4]

Records show that Hitler was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, and some sources describe his injury as a wound to the groin. Hitler's World War I company commander has said that a VD exam found that Hitler had only one testicle. Robert G.L. Waite in his book The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler (1978) accepts the accuracy of this evidence:

Since the matter is of considerable importance to the psychological development of Hitler from infancy onward, let us pause here and come to grips with the problem of the Fuehrer's testicles. It can now be affirmed that the British Tommies were right all along in the first line of their version of the Colonel Bogey March, they were although manifestly mistaken in the last—that is to say, unless Goebbels' six children were the progeny of adoption, paternal surrogacy or some hitherto unconsidered, presumably unpalatable "Gott mit uns" form of divine intervention.
The autopsy performed by the Red Army pathologists on Hitler's body... [produced clear] findings:

The left testicle could not be found either in the scrotum or on the spermatic cord inside the inguinal canal, or in the small pelvis...

Apologies, if it's on the internet it must be true.

[DrTre]

"let us pause here and come to grips with the problem of the Fuehrer's testicles"

I'd rather not if it's all the same to you


and @ illmonkey.

[TEKNOPUG]

CaptainSlow said:

Apologies, if it's on the internet it must be true.

[Cupid Stunt]

Snoop Bagg said:

Despite the efforts of the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for them, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not belive the war was over.

On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Norio Suzuki who was traveling the world and told his friends that he was “going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.

The two became friends, but Onoda said that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed place and found a note that had been left by Suzuki.

Suzuki had brought along Onoda’s one-time superior commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.

He surendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan!

Edited by Snoop Bagg on Tuesday 8th June 12:13

Brilliant story.

I can see why he wouldn't listen to the newsletters though. I remember reading about someone who was taken prisoner by the Americans & wouldn't give them any information. After a while they started giving him newspapers from his home country. A few months in the papers started reporting about the poor health of the main man in charge of the nations military etc & eventually reported that he'd died. At that point the POW revealed everything he knew to the Americans. The newspapers were fakes, there was sod all wrong with the fella who they said had died.