Where would YOU serve in WW2?

Thank you for the new information Marne. I missed that on the news. I have a B-47 book that told about it but I got the wrong state !

Richard, the story is the same as what you posted but it was in the early 60's and in black and white. I think it was a British series but it could have been American. Too many years ago to remember the details.

 

Ive changed my mind from all the places Ive posted on this or like minded threads...i'll take a posting to Shetland Isles please somewhere quiet to fish

 

Sounds like old age is catching up with urqh....

 

Chasing a balloon bomb in Oregon off or Chasing a u-boat in the Fla straights with a certain writer.

 

My airmodelling friends call the Ta 152H a power glider with an attitude

 

What was the better fighter p51-d or the ta 152h

 

i think i would plump for north africa, there it was a 'clean war' if you could ever sall war that, most of it was fought out in the desert so that there was much less 'collateral damage' as the americans call it, in the desert warfare it was you against the enemy and the terrain. the chances of mass civilian casualties was reduced to the battles in and around the cities and towns but most of the fighting was done out 'on the blue'.

In britain the bomb disposal squads also had a large number of concientious objectors who served with it diarming the bombs, they objected to the taking of life but would disarm bombs as to them it was a way of stopping the death by war. many died but others were decorated for there bravery, one said that people would be confused by the ncc (non combatent corp) patch on his shoulder above the bomb flash for bomb disposal.

 

Let me think about this one. Hmmmmmmm..........me being russian I would probably serve on the ..........can you guess???

 

i would probrably serve in italy, a very interesting chapter of the war

 

Ive been to Italy, very beautiful

 

U.S. Navy. Any unit as long as I was in the Atlantic. 3 meals a day. Clean bed, roof overhead. And you get to fire those kick ass guns! And in the Atlantic you may have subs to worry about but no kamikazes flying at you! Or in the Coast Guard. I'd love to have the honor of being in the marines but I'd wanna fight an enemy I could see. Not some Japanese in a cave firing out of a burrow in the ground. Thats no fun!

 

Fly a Lyssander and follow the Loire valley to drop supplies for the Resistance and SOE agents. Land on a small field , pick up an agent and fly back strategic intelligence. I would use the Chateaux and the River Loire to find my way.

 

No doubt about it: Bletchly Park.

 

Ted! Git yer a$$ out yer rack! The bilges need cleaning! Git down there on the double and start scraping paint. We're red leadin' everything! Yer Chief has spoken (yes, I'm the real thing, hard hat and Anchors on the collar).

 

Although i am a passionate Australian, i would love to have served with LSSAH Division in any theatre, or ironically i would loved to have been the commander in chief of the 6th Army and part of the 4th Panzer Army at Stalingrad, i would have defied Hitler and evacuated as many as i could, so as to live to fight another day.

Regards

 

I would probably be in a support unit in England with my mindset. I would likely be doing something with electronics or engineering. I would like to do something in aviation, preferable flying A-20s or A-26s.

 

Probably the IJN destroyer Yukikaze.One of the very few destroyers that actually survived the war and was in almost every major Pacific battle including as an escort for the Yamato in her final battle off Okinawa.

 

Some front line parachute regiment or as a sniper.

 

Put Ted as a sailor on a troopship ! He gets out there during a storm and has a few thousand guys throwing up and breaking arms and legs falling in the vomit. It happened many times during the war. Also I hope you like to eat spam alot.

 

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