Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
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- Feb 27, 2020
My grandfather license from the spanish nationalist army with service record in the back.
Served in the civil war in a sanitary company.
From august 1937 in the Aragón front, including in Teruel in early 1938 (a very hard battle), in the Balaguer bridgehead (a bridgehead over the river Segre that withstand three republican counterattacks that kicked off exactly 41 years before I was birth, April 10th) and the offensive against Catalonia in late 1938 and early 1939.
Back home August 23rd, 1939, and first licensed October 2nd that same year.
Movilized again July 15th, 1940, also with the same company till the end of February 1944, when he was licensed again. In July 31st, 1955, he was fully licensed from the army.
As most spaniards, he fought with the side that won were he was after the start of the war, which in the Canary Islands was the nationalist one.
He died when I was a kid, so never manage to ask anything but I doubt that he would had answered something other than vagueness either. My mother told that he never told much about the war.
Served in the civil war in a sanitary company.
From august 1937 in the Aragón front, including in Teruel in early 1938 (a very hard battle), in the Balaguer bridgehead (a bridgehead over the river Segre that withstand three republican counterattacks that kicked off exactly 41 years before I was birth, April 10th) and the offensive against Catalonia in late 1938 and early 1939.
Back home August 23rd, 1939, and first licensed October 2nd that same year.
Movilized again July 15th, 1940, also with the same company till the end of February 1944, when he was licensed again. In July 31st, 1955, he was fully licensed from the army.
As most spaniards, he fought with the side that won were he was after the start of the war, which in the Canary Islands was the nationalist one.
He died when I was a kid, so never manage to ask anything but I doubt that he would had answered something other than vagueness either. My mother told that he never told much about the war.
