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Discussion in 'What If - Other' started by urqh, Sep 5, 2009.

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  1. LRusso216

    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    No submarine service for me, on either side. I toured one once and after 10 minutes, I was ready to scream. Plus, the likelihood of returning intact was pretty low.
     
    LRusso216, Sep 6, 2009
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  2. formerjughead

    formerjughead The Cooler King

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    exactly!!.......anything with more legs or less legs, than you, is not to be trusted and shot on sight.
     
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  3. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    And not in what color shoes?
     
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  4. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    I wouldn't want to serve in a POW camp. I heard that the health care there is really poor, and there are no choices either.
     
    A-58, Sep 7, 2009
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  5. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    Only for GI's. Brits were entitled to private barracks and red cross nursing.
     
    urqh, Sep 7, 2009
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  6. wtid45

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    It was the singing that helped win the war ask Vera!!!
     
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  7. colletorww2

    colletorww2 Ace

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    I would hate to be on the German side in the Battle Of Stalingrad or The Battle Of Berlin.
     
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  8. Chesehead121

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    Ostfront, 1943... *shivers* why Russia... Why...
     
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  9. Totenkopf

    Totenkopf אוּרִיאֵל

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    I would despise being an able bodied civilian anywhere in western Russia.
     
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  10. JagdtigerI

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    I would hate to be on either ;)
     
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  11. A-58

    A-58 Cool Dude

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    Well, then why were the Brits in such a hurry to pull that "Great Escape" thing, hmmmm?
     
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  12. colletorww2

    colletorww2 Ace

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    Ya, what a disaster...
     
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  13. Hufflepuff

    Hufflepuff Semi-Frightening Mountain Goat

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    I would probably not want to serve as a sailor in the Japanses Navy, or as a German soldier at Stalingrad after they got surrounded.

    (I've been gone for a while! Good to see all of you again!)
     
    Hufflepuff, Sep 8, 2009
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  14. 9th Inf. Div.

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    Anywhere on the Eastern Front in a Soviet penal battalion.
     
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  15. Kai-Petri

    Kai-Petri Kenraali

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    Good question.

    U-boat, arctic convoys, in Ju 87 in BoB, German soldier in Stalingrad....just some to name.
     
    Kai-Petri, Sep 12, 2009
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  16. SOAR21

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    In the Ostfront, in a desert, in a jungle, underwater, in the sky, in a forest, on a beach, on a plain, in the mountains, in a swamp, in a losing battle or campaign.

    That basically rules out everything except the 1944-45 U.S. Navy surface fleet, and the Continental U.S.
     
    SOAR21, Sep 14, 2009
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  17. D-Day Man

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    Probably with Americans on Omaha beach on D-Day
     
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  18. rebel1222

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    Russian front.
     
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  19. XcombatX

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    Dieppe or any other well defended invasion beach for that matter.
     
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  20. Sloniksp

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    Would not want to be a German soldier on the Ost Front.
     
    Sloniksp, Sep 18, 2009
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