Falcon
Well-Known Member
It is said that one of my paternal grandfather's two brothers was presumed captured by the Japanese in WW2 and never heard from again.
That literally all that my father knows. His father was a few years too young to serve in WW2, but was in the RAF during the Berlin Airlift just after WW2. Unfortunately he died a few years before I was born. My grandmother also passed away when I was ten years old.
Apparently family history was never talked about much by my father's parents. My father does not have any more information or paperwork related to it at all.
However, I do have an uncommon surname.
With only the surname to start with, how would I go about researching my great uncle's WW2 history in more detail?
That literally all that my father knows. His father was a few years too young to serve in WW2, but was in the RAF during the Berlin Airlift just after WW2. Unfortunately he died a few years before I was born. My grandmother also passed away when I was ten years old.
Apparently family history was never talked about much by my father's parents. My father does not have any more information or paperwork related to it at all.
However, I do have an uncommon surname.
With only the surname to start with, how would I go about researching my great uncle's WW2 history in more detail?