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! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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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As a proud Australian I would have to say 'Z' Special Unit



But I have heard enough stories over the year from family members to prefer the Royal Marine Commando, specifically 4 Commando Brigade serving in Normandy.

Hehe.. *Heartland* u got the swedish Bofors AT-4... Probably would you fight at the finnish frontier my friend .. good at ski? :P..

I would join the German resistance of course.. or the one of the 40000 of 62 russian army.. (First defender of stalingrad)

"Not a single step back"

After rethinking this, I do believe that I would rather be an Admiral's Aide. After all, great parties with beautiful and eligable Women, great food and plenty of Grape. ;-D

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A Panzer crew of the Afrika Korps

Marienburg, West Prussia, 1945. (Where I get the moniker from.)

Marienburg, a huge medieval castle of the German Teutonic Order, built in 1309 and seat of the Grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights who started the whole German "Drive to the East" with their Prussian Crusade. The irony of defending such a place against the forces of the east would have made the defence of the place all the more interesting. Plus my family is originally from a town only a few miles away from the old castle! If you're going to go down in flames, make it dramatic.

I'd like to be posted with a coastal artillery unit on Oahu. Not much of a chance to see any action after December 7, 1941, but the fringe benefits of all the nearby, Wahines (native women)would make it more than worthwhile!

This topic makes me laugh a little...

Anyone in their right mind wouldnt want to be in a war at all... Especially not some of the choices some people put. Why would you want to get killed?

You would really want to be shot at, blown up or otherwise in danger at your own violition?

Cant imagine many veterans would share your sentiments.


Personally, I would elect to serve in a weather monitoring station in Greenland. Only about 7 Germans ever got around there...

Where would I liked to have served ?

When I was being shelled at Cassino ? ...... I would liked to have served anywhere near my home in London.
When I was being dive-bombed at Termoli ? ..... I would have liked to have served anywhere near the beach in Brighton
When I was snowbound in Carovilli ? ........I would have liked to have served in somehere like Cape Town

All in all, most of the time I would liked to have served somewhere else but I suppose that merely makes me normal

Being a Canadian I assume I'd be somewhere in the infantry. Hopefully as a officer and such!
But to spice it up I'd like to be a Resistance Fighter in one of the occupied countries/become a Partisan

Here are some Soviet Partisans in Belarus 1943.

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Interestingly, it wasn't until World War I that your sentiments started to reflect the majority view. While today nearly everyone feels as you do throughout human history until only a century ago the vast majority of civilizations glorified war. For the Vikings to die safe and warm in one's bed was the worst kind of death imagineable; it completely lacked glory. In Aztec society one could not progress in status without engaging in warfare. Warrior was a respected title.

Ever stopped to think about why evolution has turned the human male into a creature significantly bigger than the female? Why all that upper body strength? We've been bred to be warlike and tough. Sports are simply avenues to release the natural tension in the male that used to be released through violence. War has been a fundamental part of human society since the beginning and most of the earliest history of humans deals with warfare.

We're all going to die at some point in our lives (normally at the end!). Yes, war is terrible and involves a hell of a lot of suffering. But all that risk and pain is what made the victories so glorious to past peoples. There is very little glory or true excitement in the modern world. Everything is just titilation. We only see war in movies and the war movies we see today are entirely seeped in the anti-war sentiment so prevalently today. War isn't always the unremited hell that is portrayed in modern movies. It certainly wasn't the wonderful past time that ancient people's portrayed it but don't fool yourself into believing completely the modern tales about warfare.

Excellent!! I forgot all about that.... Just finished a great book on Partisans in Belarus... These worriors scared the heck out of the Germans especially when the Germans would be walking near the woods. As some wehrmacht soldiers wrote in their journals, " They appeared out of no-where and disappeared just as quickly, leaving several dozen dead at a time".

The Germans called them terrorists and bandits...... Funny isnt it??
Can we think of anywhere else in the world where this is the case today??

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yes. Though I say there fighting for freedom. then agian some argue with the things in Iraq. *shrugs*
Though I wouldn't mind being in a large battle.. if I didn't get hit that is.. :/

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"War has been a fundamental part of human society since the beginning and most of the earliest history of humans deals with warfare."

And your point is what? Just because the human race has endured centuries of warfare does not make it a noble or glorius pursuit, nor is it one that should be taken lightly with topics such as this. To me it belittles the sacrifice made by those who did fight in a war.

I dont want to be in a war.

I also find it rather sad to choose what you would want to be in. I find it somewhat distasteful and disrespectful to those who did fight.

To me it all sounds like boyhood bravado.

Why on earth would you want to be a partisan or a German on the Eastern Front?

If you do want to then why not join the army or head off to a warzone?

"It certainly wasn't the wonderful past time that ancient people's portrayed it but don't fool yourself into believing completely the modern tales about warfare."

I prefer to talk to the men who took part in it. None of them see any glory in it, and your assertions seem better placed for propaganda or boys own comics. They did what had to be done. I doubt many wanted to go and fight, they did it because they had to.

In my opinion topics like this belittle those men and make history into a movie sideshow and to me, would not seem a topic that sits with the overall professionalism of this forum and its knowledgable membership.