I would love to be flying an F4U Corsair against Japan.

(or a Mustang would be just fine too)

If I wasnt' flying, I'd like to be an American or British commando.

Although chances of survival would have been greater in air-to-air combat in the PTO than in the ETO I myself would still rather have taken my chances over Europe instead of having to fear being shot down in the SHARK infested waters of the Pacific!

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so U don't mind getting poked or hacked by angry German civilians with farm tools eh ? Death is death in my book.....

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Certainly would mind it! But I'd rather have taken my chances with the Volk than the sharks!!!

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hmmmmmmmm I wonder friend. I can tell U if you would of been captured by 9/10th's of the German populace in late 44 till war's end U would probably lose an eye or part of your hand or be stabbed to death. Obvioulsy the best bet would have been immediate capture by the Luftwaffe otherwise it could have been real fun under Gestapo hands.......no thanks to either one personally

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Personally I would rather not serve. I really have great difficulty deciding where I would like to serve as really, risking death anywere seems much the same to me, would canada be an option?

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I can walk alot farther than I can swim,brother...

However,during World War Two,I would have wanted to have been stationed aboard the Motor Torpedo Boats in the Pacific.

A 'shoot and scoot' war in the backwaters of Micronesia.

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell

I would want to fight the japs on the bataan peninsula. Though I would not want to be involved in the bataan death march.

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As Allied, i would want be a Commando.

As Axis i would want to be a Fallshirmjaeger (paratrooper).

As Comintern i would want be a sniper.

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"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

US:

I would probaly want to server in the army signal corps like my grandfather. If not that a sniper!

German:

Sniper(Scharfschütze)

In a direct translate, is Scharfschütze sharpshooter, or marksman.

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Yours faithfully, Munken

"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

Noted! what would sniper be?

Thanks,

It has almost the same meaning but i don't know what the direct term of 'sniper' is in german. I'm swedish if you read in my facts. And we in Sweden does not have a direct term for 'sniper' either. We call our snipers "krypskyttar" wich could be translated as crawlshooter (kryp=crawl, skytt=shooter).

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Yours faithfully, Munken

"Veni, Vidi, Vici"= I came I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
"We shall never surrender"- Winston Churchill.
"United we are strong, united we will win"

Cool!

The translation I get is Heckenschütze, scharfschutzen were normally men who were good shots and so were issued a small scope for their rifle, usually one per platoon I think.

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as im from australia i would like to fight in any australian division i the westen front as i have seen the terrible things the jap's would do to prisoners in the pacfic.They didnt even have a word for retreatIn the battle of kocoda (dont know the spelling exactly) the commanding officer had to tell the troops to advance to the rear.

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I'm probably going to still have to go with an American Officer in the Philippine (12th) Division at the onset of the war in the pacific. That is, fighting on Bataan and maybe even Corregidor.


There only on problem with that...

Either 3 years in a jap 'POW' camp. or a guerilla war in the Philippines.


CvM

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Ok then, if I have to choose somewhere I would go for the Womens Royal Auxilliary Balloon Corps.

That or Howards Coy of the Ox and Bucks

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Welcome Camz!

I agree with yuo Carl except I would want to be a Philipine officer in a scout regiment so I could escape Bataan and continue the war as a guerilla.

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Well, presumably i'd make it through the front lines when bataan crumbled in early April of 42

Then its geurilla all the way

CvM

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the RAF spitfire in the battle of britan, that would be gr8. it would be hard but i would be determand to win. Or the Aerican 101st Airborne, they did so much in the warm, i would have loved to serve with them :-p

I think weve had this before, I ended up on corvette in Atlantic, but no Im with Stefan now.

Stefan come and join me, were going to be Churchills speech writers. Nice and safe, lots of whiskey and cigars, travel to see the great leaders and battle spots, once troops have moved the fighing on of course....Always best time....

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William L. McGonagle, MOH, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY 1967.

American Front Line Combat Infantry...or maybe a waist gunner on a B-17..either way, it'd be in the European AO.

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"O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.."

"Born to fight, Trained to kill
Ready to die but never will..."