Well I would have to say with the 101st airborne. It would definetly put me to the test and I love to face a challenge!

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I wouldn't have serbed anywhere.... after repeatedly commenting all aspects of nazi ideology with "This is illogical", I would have ended in KZ Mauthausen very soon. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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If someone tries to remove the speck in your right eye, will you turn to him the other also?

I would have loved to serve in the American Air Force as a pilot or a gunner in a B-17 or B-24, but I would have been pretty flexible in where I wanted to be if I joined during that time. I would probably have done my best to get into a high ranking position and work on attack plans and so-forth (probably be a better general than a volunteer).

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You are about to embark on the great crusade towards which we have striven these many months - Eisenhower

Now that´s logical!

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I think it's ofitial... 60% of forum members would be paratroopers...

Finally! Then I would have someone to chat there...

Or would you like to be Ike? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Finally! Then I would have someone to chat there...
</font>[/quote]As you were born in Germany, why would they have sent you to Mauthausen? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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Knight, you should know that being German didn't save you from anything! (Look at the SHOAH and Gellately threads...

But I have many things in my files that the nazis wouldn't have liked...

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

You missed the point of my question... why would they send you, born in Germany, to the KZ MAUTHAUSEN in (former) Austria? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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AH! [img]redface.gif[/img] Bloody Austrians! They make all the trouble! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

I have nothing against Austrians, actually one of my favourite places is Wien, but here´s something interesting. Like you said..

What was Austria's real record? It begins with the fact that Adolf Hitler and Adolf Eichmann were both Austrians, but there's far more: "Austrians were disproportionately involved in planning and implementing the 'Final Solution,'" Wistrich adds; 80 percent of Eichmann's staff were Austrians.



I wonder if anyone else has heard or this?

http://www.eppc.org/news/newsID.137/news_detail.asp

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I knew that Austrians had a more-than-average percentage among war criminals and persons involved in the holocaust. But this can be explained (at least partially) with the fact that Hitler set in German nazis to rule Austria - he didn't trust native Austrians to be loyal, not even the nazis. So, a lot of German nazi staff were installed in Austria, whereas Austrian nazis were given these 'other' jobs.

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If someone tries to remove the speck in your right eye, will you turn to him the other also?

And let's also remember that Heydrich arrested more than 60.000 people, just in Vienna the first night of the German occupation... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

I'm not sure where I'd want to serve but with the big (read "long-distance") guns is where I'd like to be too. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Duck, fire and pull back!

If I was a bit more ballsy I'd man a AT gun and slay metal dragons.

Welcome aboard, J Penn! Hope you won't like to be so distant from this forum! Enjoy yourself!

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

Thanks, I feel welcome already. Been busy reading a lot of old threads.

Freddy, I think the breakdown is something like 40% paras 40% commandos or similar, 20% other combat units and then there is me (and I seem to remember No.9) serving tea as far from the lines as possible, not forgetting Urqh's book stall on the beaches.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I would serve as a salior in the navy because most of the time you do not come under enemy fire. The type of ship would be a destroyer because me grandfather was on a destroyer during World War II. [img]graemlins/rk.gif[/img]

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I would be a German U-boat commander, A sherman tank crewman, or a crewman on the Tirpitz.

my your survive-ability rate doesn't seem to high does it ?

Royal Signals

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God, you're BRAVE!

An U-boat were 75% of the men do not survive, a ship which was attacked many times and finally sunk and a very bad tank to face a German 88mm gun... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun

You stick to your guns, Leitung !

( I could be mischievous and say I'd like to be a destroyer crewman with Walker RN, a Jagdpanther gunner in NW Europe, or a SABS bomb-aimer with 617 Squadron - but I won't ! )

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Paratroopers? I can't believe anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good plane into the hornet's nest with no support.

I like gadgets and there is no gadget meaner or tougher than a Tiger I, I'd like to either be a driver or gunner. I had the luck once of sitting in a T-64 which was sat outside an Army Surplus shop in England. All the controls were more or less intact so I climbed in and remembering the desperate situation in "The Beast" (where the tank commander has to aim manually as his motor was bust), started cranking the Manual Traverse.

There is nothing more satisfying in the world than swinging a 125mm gun and aiming it at...well in this case it was a cow.

I got told off in the end because, while I could not endanger any one with HE, I had the barrel protruding out over the main road. So it took some heavy cranking to get it back in line with the shop [img]smile.gif[/img]

Now isn't that better than "hitting the silk" ?

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