[gdogghenrikson]

[Deamon]

[U-552Erich-Topp]

Hi, As to the question " Did my Grandfather on my dads side survive the war, YES...........But he was stabbed once through the chest with a bayonet in hand to hand combat and........shot twice through the same leg. However.........his best friend did not survive the war and was killed in action. My Grandfather had to bury him and carved his headstone from wood (seeing as my Grandfather was a wood carver in Germany).

Another interesting thing is that my wifes Grandfather also served in WW1 on the Canadian side at most of the major battles as well......However he to was killed in action. So basically I have two related Grandfathers shooting at each other during WW1.

Anyway my Grandfather on my dads side immigrated to Canada in the 1920's and listened to WW2 on a short wave radio in his home. Short wave listening devices were forbidden to anyone of German decent. The RCMP raided his home but never found the radio (they also harassed him like crazy). During WW2 his relatives were being bombed in Hamburg, Germany likely by the pilots/bombardiers that my Grandfather on my moms side was training here in Canada. So basically I have one set of relatives bombing the other set of realitives during WW2.

As for war he ( Grandfather on my dads side) said "Niemals Wieder", meaning "Never Again" (would he fight).

As a footnote: I still have the WW1 French fighters helmet that he and his best friend shot down over the front during his service from 1914 to 1918.

[U-552Erich-Topp]

I just thought that using the SH3 engine would be easier since it is already developed......and I thought you would be able to refine the SH3 engine so that it works even better than it currently does.

Then I thought you could introduce the WW1 U-boats into the engine. This was just an idea to try to help you out. However I am not a software engineer so I don't know the answer to being able to make these ideas work, but it sounds like that is not a possiblity. I hope that the new environment that you are creating is as good or better than the SH3 environment that the U-boats operate in.

Even though SH3 has some bugs from time to time, the environment that the U-boats operate in is pretty good I have to say.

I wish you all the success with the new WW1 U-boat sim and look forward to it's release. Thanks again, Erich Topp U-552

[gdogghenrikson]

[Deamon]

[U-552Erich-Topp]

The shortwave radio was hidden upstair in their bedroom inside of the furniture. You'ld have no idea it was there unless you ripped the furniture apart. If my memory serves me correctly, it was in the small bedroom dresser.

I also know they had a hide away room in the bedroom. The door to this small room looked like the rest of the panelling on the wall so you couldn't see the door either. I've always wondered if they hid things (old photos, etc. from Germany) in this small room during the war. I always sensed that something important had gone on in the room at some time in the past. Just a feeling I always got when I went in there.

[Deamon]

[U-552Erich-Topp]

Landed immigrants from Germany were not allowed to have any short wave radios during WW2, especially those who were in combat during WW1.

The dresser upstairs as I recall had a false panel at the bottom in the center of the dresser. It looked like a regular drawer but it wouldn't pull out. The radio was behind it and could be accessed from the rear of the dresser.

As for a hidden agenda, well let's just say that the RCMP hauled him away one time and said to him" If you try and do anything at against our side (the Allies), you won't be coming back". Anotherwords, you're dead if you try anything at all. The RCMP were dead serious about this. So any ideas that my Grandfather had in his mind were washed away. He just sat out WW2 and listened to the news, while his relatives were being bombed in Hamburg, Germany. The RCMP sat outside his house every night from dusk till dawn for the entire length of the war. You know I've often wondered who those RCMP officers were as I would love to talk to them now about it. However that was 60 years ago and I doubt any of them would be living anymore.

There were other stories though about his friends homes who lived near him. One of this friends had his porch railing ripped off his home because someone thought it contained the design of the nazi symbol in the iron railing. Some people over here are nuts.

[Deamon]