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| What If? Alternate History: Speculate about WWII battles that never were. Could the Axis have won? What if Hitler had the bomb? |
January 15th, 2004, 07:36 PM
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Hmmm - you look a little exposed up there, Gaucho.....
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Ok then,
I'd love to be the bottom turret gunner of a Junker 86 series "E"
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January 15th, 2004, 09:29 PM
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I would serve the Motherland on the eastern front as a Razvedchik (Rahd-Zeh-Vikh) scout. I would sneek behind faschist lines, and steal important enemy documents, then get out before anyone sees me.
I would also serve as a Stalin-II tank commander, or maybe just a Komsomolyets (Junior communist member) with a ppsh-41 out somewhere on the war against the faschists. (I'm not very old)
~Katyusha~
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More fodder for my MG42's... 
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January 15th, 2004, 11:22 PM
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E-Boot dienst as either a gunner or a torpedo officer.
Arminius.
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January 17th, 2004, 11:21 PM
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I will sure serve In Libia, under Rommel's command
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January 26th, 2004, 02:03 AM
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German- Tiger I or Tiger II Tank commander(with all mechanical problems aside, these were amazing tanks),Fallshirmjager, Panzer Grenadier, Pilot of ME262
American- 8th Air Force, Crew of B-17 Bomber or Pilot of P-38 Lightning
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February 10th, 2004, 11:19 PM
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With the Flying Tigers of course!
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February 11th, 2004, 04:39 AM
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I wouldn't mind being Ben Aflick spending a little time at Pearl Harbor, some time in the RAF, and the Dolittle raid.
Talk about being everywhere doing everything...
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April 26th, 2004, 04:23 PM
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101st Airborn right before the D-Day
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June 15th, 2004, 09:48 AM
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With Johnny Walker out of Liverpool, hunting U boats.
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Jagdpanther driver in the West, an SS guard at Berchtesgaden (a fly on the wall to all of Hitler's dirt), an agent in the Abwehr ... or in the States - with lonely GI wives - nah, that's just too mean 
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An ss granadier fighting to the end in the surounded ruins of Berlin.At least that way I wouldn`t have had to experience the consecuences of defeat.
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July 2nd, 2004, 09:22 PM
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I have changed my mind...
I would have VOLUNTEERED for service in the...
Womens Auxillary Balloon Corps...
"Theres nothing cushy about life in the womens auxillary balloon corp!"
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July 4th, 2004, 03:34 AM
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101st airborne. Straight Kentucky yo.
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July 14th, 2004, 04:03 AM
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Newbie here
Well, Army Intelligence (so that everybody could find a scapegoat!)
Best Regards
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Welcome to the Forums Clausewitz! Intel is a good one, but I'm still sticking to my pick as a Fighter Group Captain in the Royal (Canadian) Air Force attached to the RAF...
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July 14th, 2004, 08:20 AM
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Wouldn't have mind being with Lord Lovat and 4 Commando attacking the Hess battery during the Dieppe Op.
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July 14th, 2004, 09:00 AM
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Mahross,
I see you have picked the commandos at Dieppe!
Why not go in with the Canadians..?
Would be very exciting! Though rather more dangerous...
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July 14th, 2004, 04:12 PM
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No i'm not that stupid. Attack a fortified port!!
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July 28th, 2004, 09:55 AM
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Another newbie here - I think it would have been quite satisfying being with Major Howard at Pegasus Bridge - also turned out to be quite light with casualties...
Other choices would have been with the Commandos or Paras although these are rather dangerous options.
Oh, LRDG would have been fun!
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I've Given this some thought! I know Uboats suffered the biggest causualty rates so I would not be there, does anyone know what combat unit suffered the least casualties? I would have volunteered for that!
Otherwise I could see myself with a spitfire the googles,and perfumed scarf from my sweetheart. Sipping tea on the lawn waiting for the call to take on the jerries! Yep thats it RAF 'ground crew' for me!
Only Joking, I am definetly an infantry man, would have joined up the infantry and marched to war, I'm a born complainer and I would have had plenty to complain about, marching, marching and more marching!
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July 28th, 2004, 11:56 AM
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I think RAF Dental staff had quite low casualty rates... ( Open wide ! )
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August 1st, 2004, 01:54 PM
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I think RAF Dental staff had quite low casualty rates... ( Open wide ! )
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Hmmm ... didn't the dental staff have an unofficial commando force which carried out the Operation Wild Dog raid into France in 1942?
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August 1st, 2004, 04:23 PM
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DWD, that's unbelievable ! 
I'd never heard about this before !
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August 1st, 2004, 04:42 PM
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I had never heard of it either, Martin, until seeing an article on it in a recent issue of Military Illustrated magazine.
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