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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? |
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
I would hate to be on the German side in the Battle Of Stalingrad or The Battle Of Berlin.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Ostfront, 1943... *shivers* why Russia... Why...
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September 8th, 2009, 02:55 AM
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
I would despise being an able bodied civilian anywhere in western Russia.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
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I would hate to be on the German side in the Battle Of Stalingrad or The Battle Of Berlin.
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I would hate to be on either 
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Only for GI's. Brits were entitled to private barracks and red cross nursing.
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Well, then why were the Brits in such a hurry to pull that "Great Escape" thing, hmmmm?
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September 8th, 2009, 08:28 AM
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Ya, what a disaster...
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
I would probably not want to serve as a sailor in the Japanses Navy, or as a German soldier at Stalingrad after they got surrounded.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Anywhere on the Eastern Front in a Soviet penal battalion.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Good question.
U-boat, arctic convoys, in Ju 87 in BoB, German soldier in Stalingrad....just some to name.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
In the Ostfront, in a desert, in a jungle, underwater, in the sky, in a forest, on a beach, on a plain, in the mountains, in a swamp, in a losing battle or campaign.
That basically rules out everything except the 1944-45 U.S. Navy surface fleet, and the Continental U.S.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Probably with Americans on Omaha beach on D-Day
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Russian front.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Dieppe or any other well defended invasion beach for that matter.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
Would not want to be a German soldier on the Ost Front.
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Would not want to be a German soldier on the Ost Front.
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I don't think that anyone on the Ost Front, Axis or Allied had a good time....
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
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In the Ostfront, in a desert, in a jungle, underwater, in the sky, in a forest, on a beach, on a plain, in the mountains, in a swamp, in a losing battle or campaign.
That basically rules out everything except the 1944-45 U.S. Navy surface fleet, and the Continental U.S.
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I'm with you on this, except I'm also ruling out the US Navy surface fleet. My choice is to be on submarine spotting duty in Omaha.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
and with typical army humour on ppostings lou finds himself at 0200 zulu with a pair of binoculars 6 june 1944 on omaha beach.. close enough?
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
I wouldn't serve in Normandy Beach (D-Day) with Germans!! 1:3
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
WOULD not want to be on Batan !! waiting for MacArthur to return !!!!
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
in the Luftwaffe flying against the US heavy bomber formations with loads of Mustangs lying in wait ..... 1944-45.
a cousin of mine fell in protecting his country, or so he thought, was it worth it ....... ?
if I really had a choice being of the present older generation, and seriously if I had a choice and not have vindictive govt. regulators on my back/jail sentance for refusal of service ........... I would rather stay home, secure a good job and have babies with my lovely bride and grow quite old together in peace.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
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and with typical army humour on ppostings lou finds himself at 0200 zulu with a pair of binoculars 6 june 1944 on omaha beach.. close enough?
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Urqh, you missed it by this much...
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
To add to my last post (Ostfront), Russia, the Eastern Front, anywhere near the Russians, anywhere in Ruskieland, Russie, Ruskia, the Motherland, Vodkatown, Stalincountry, any of those, really.
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Re: Where wouldn't you serve in ww2
The Pacific. Weather's too hot for me.
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