Re: Where would YOU serve in WW2?
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Originally Posted by kingthreehead
I would serve in the European Theater. If you served in the Pacific theater and got captured and was a POW you would be killed and totured. The Germans usaully followed the Geneva Convention For American Soldiers. So i would serve in the European Theater.
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the key word here being 'usually' but you are right, I have read lots concerning the japanese and their belief that anyone who would surrender was deserving of the worst treatment. I would have fought in Europe myself, waffen-ss if possible by birth. 
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare
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