Here's my top 3 choices:

1. I'll be a Soviet sniper during the battle of Stalingrad. Obviously in a building that no one would suspect someone would be in.

2. I would be a Japanese pilot during the beginning of the war when Japan still had the upper hand.

3. A German MG42 gunner during the Battle of Berlin.

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probley find myself in the .artillery . somewhere . even in a .MG.crew dug down in a nice bunker
what else still thinking ..mw

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Probably as a torpedo bomber pilot for the USN or RN. It would be awesome to bring down a ship with one of those.

1. In the Dutch army as a Hussar. Defending my country against those who invaded.
2. In the Prinses Irenebrigade in 1944/45 kicking them out of my country.

I'like to d be Hermann Göring's heroin dealer.

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Wasn't It Morphine?

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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts." - Cicero

"It's called getting wounded, Private. Injured is when you fall out of a tree or something." - Sgt. John Martin, "Band of Brothers"

I would be there with you my friend!

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...this army made up of ex-resistence men and named by the Prince Himself, became known as the STOOTTROEPEN(Stormtroopers).
Nulli Cedo = I'll give way to no one.

Scott

You're right Huffy, morphine it is

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in the bunker just at the moment old adolf did the deed

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WHEN YOU GO HOME, TELL THEM OF US AND SAY, FOR YOUR TOMORROW,WE GAVE OUR TODAY. Epitaph on the Kohima memorial .

If I could have served in any "army group" during the wwII era I would have to say the SS-hitler's personal bodyguards- himmler would have been a great leader under the third reich, his passion for germany and the way he felt about his leader-Adolf, in the ealy days of the war would have been unexplainable damn why couldn't i've been born in the 1930's lol

You can never be 100% sure that hitler actually did commit suicide but then again whos knows

Wonders never cease

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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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but when I ask why the poor are hungry,
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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

i would say US 101st Airborne.
basically because thats who most of the re enactors are re enacting.

They didn't used to re-enact in WWII

*TheThirdReich* you SS lover or something?

Because I don't think you really know who Himmler was.
1) Himmler wanted all the power for himself
2) Himmler only listened to Adolf, so the SS would be a priority
3) Himmler never fought, he only signed death papers and secret meetings with the SS-Headpieces to talk about the Destroyment of the Jews
4) If you were born in the Thirthies you would've been a HJunge
5) I'm the one whos born to late, ask Za he knows it

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Have you noticed the more experienced members here tend to go for the cushie jobs?

I woldn't mind being a guard in an Italian POW camp in Britian, not a lot of trouble tends to come from them.

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Born in the 1930s, the oldest he would have been during the war was 15. So I guess he wants to be one of those little boys that got his face rubbed on by a shakey old Austrian in the courtyard of the Reichskanzlei just as the war ends? Of course, this after getting notification that his father, brothers, uncles, cousins and older friends are either MIA and presumed captured and on their way to Siberia, or presumed KIA, and his house was bombed into cinders.

Indeed, neither does he know anything about the SS.

Don't think that life was easy after the war.

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And where might that be? Most of the reenators here in the US are not portraying the 101st.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman

Well, I must say that I prefer the Arctic!

The freezing cold of the Arctic has many advantages:
No mud, no mosquitos, no flies, no snakes, no spiders, no crocodiles, no rotten food and no stench from decaying bodies!

When you get used to the cold, it is actually comfortable. The body adapts to the below-zero-temperatures, and after a while you need less clothing as your system starts to produce more heat.
You can eat as much as you want without gaining weight!

You make igloos (a kind of snow houses) or dig down into a snow drift.
The snow insulates, and the temperature inside is around freezing point, which is comfortable.

Having spent most of my lifetime above the Arctic Circle, I know this climate and feel comfortable with it.

Nothing is like an Arctic winter night, full moon and just the ice cold, deep frozen silence!

Regards
RAM

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But I said no-because I never considered Norwegian to be a foreign language!"
pvt. Marvin Skogrand, 99th Battalion (Separate) US Army

In a slight derailment, it would take a lot of guts to be a medic.

You would have to serve without a weapon, armed only with the knowledge that people aren't "supposed" to shoot you. You would have to be the one running around in an artillery attack, while your buddies take cover in foxholes. You would quite literally see the face of war, see buddies die horrible deaths three feet away from you, see friends and foe alike wounded close-up...and I haven't even started about the Pacific Front.

If I had to choose a normal combat job, it would be that of a medic. Taking lives is something that I could not do well, even if the alternative was just, if not more, dangerous.