WW2 real time 1939 tweets: today's weather conditions (GAH!)

[Are_grits_groceries]

WW2 Tweets from 1939 (@RealTimeWWII)
12/26/11 6:38 AM
This winter is 1 of coldest on record in Europe- temperature in Finland today below
-30°C (-86°F). 1000s of Red Army men suffering frostbite

My Daddy was over there after D-Day until the end of the war. Had to be brutal in the winter even then. They didn't have high tech gear.

[dipsydoodle]

1. And last night here just outside London

it was 54f at midnight - unseasonably warm.

Tweets from 1939.....lol.

Should've posted this in LBN now that the 12 hour rule seems to have met an early demise on DU3.

[onehandle]

2. My dad was part of the occupying force in the French Zone of Germany, after VG day.

It totally sucked. Little supplies, next to no heat. I still have his lighter fluid fueled hand warmer that my mother sent him. It looks like a silver flask that slips into a thin leather pouch.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Mine was coming up through Italy

having landed at Sicily from North Africa.

He rarely spoke of the war. After he died back in '93 my mother explained to to me that he lost all of his pals when their ship, which was in front of the one he was on, was blown out of the water on the journey to Sicily.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Jon-e brand, I betcha.

In a little velvet bag.

[Confusious]

10. Great-uncle

American zone

grandfather was in the pacific sneaking into Japanese harbors to plant explosives on ships.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Eye opening ,Senators & Congressmen and Presidents should..

be put in a simulation chamber to experience the enviroments they subject people to ,before THEY declare war from Mt. Olympus.

[TheWraith]

5. They screwed that one badly. -30 C is -22 F, not -86 F. nt

Still cold, but it's not THAT cold.

[Abin Sur]

8. Good catch. -86 F is virtually unsurvivable without specialized equipment.

[HereSince1628]

6. Self delete

[Motown_Johnny]

9. My father was there too but not in Finland

England to France to Belgium to Germany

[Stainless]

11. Dec 17, 1944 - Dec 24, 1944

My father had to jump out of a crippled B-24 over Nazi occupied Yugoslavia. He and his fellow crew members were taken in and hidden by local Partisans. They then had to make their way through the mountains where they were returned to their base in Italy a week later. He was very lucky and I'm very lucky to be able to celebrate the Holidays with him. He is 86 years old and in very good health!