French resistance at the Ardennes...

With my grandpa near the end of the war. He was on a ship returning home in the Pacific when the ship was torpedoed by a Jap sub. Most of the crew (including him) escaped and they were stuck on the ocean for roughly two days until they were rescued.

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Easily the most overpowered tank in history. Seriously - dual 280mm cannons?! It's not like the Allies had a tank with 200mm of armor!

A personal servant to Hitler

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

I would not have liked to be in Burma. The Jungle life, the fact that i would be surrounded by enemies and the heat would turn me insane.
I would rather fight in Europe with the British.

A Russian in a German POW camp.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

I wouldn't want to be on any U-boat during the war. Just the thought of being under water and ships tossing depth charges at you is a bit scary. Or on a ship transporting goods across the Atlantic.

Any where near the Russian front on any side.
Rabaul, Timor and Ambon,
On any North sea convoys.
Any Navy or Merchantman ships/boats in any theatre of OP's.
France 1940
Greece/Crete 1941

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Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders and says,Oh S#!T he's awake.

As a Japanese soldier at the Battle of Okinawa stairing down a US Marine with a flame thrower

Yup Tidalwave1 that would be a terrible position to be in especially when you were expected to die for the Emperor.

Being any where near a Aircraft of any side "who was dropping Napalm".

Kokoda and the Kokoda track under manned, under gunned ,(still using Lewis guns)and being ordered by stupid commanders from a few thousand KM's away

Any place where air craft can bomb the crap out of ya.
IE; Dresden East London and any the rest of the cities that were bombed to heck and back.

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Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders and says,Oh S#!T he's awake.

As a POW of the Soviets in Siberia.

I would not want to serve in the pacific I mean they have mosquitoes the size of a #$%^n bus.

Also:

Iwo Jima, at the top of Mount Siribachi (sp?) looking on as the US fleet bombardments the island and planes fire rockets and drop bombs all over the damn place.

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Easily the most overpowered tank in history. Seriously - dual 280mm cannons?! It's not like the Allies had a tank with 200mm of armor!

60 years after the fact I look back and can say I would not want to be anywhere there was the remotest chance of frezing to death, starving to death, burning to death, falling to my death, being shot to death, drowning to death, blown up to death, getting malaria or some other disease to death, or bayonetted to death.
So where does that leave? I could have been a USO girl in Hollywood - if I were a girl and had better looking legs!

as a german wounded soldier in berlin 1945

chilling would you get medical attention or left to die OR captured by the russians and get gang green and die slowly?

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News today, a man has fallen into a chocolate vat in the arnotts factory

In other news arnotts have anounced that there will be 50% more tim in your tim tams.
(p.s. only aussies will get this joke)

I would not have liked to serve as a U-boat crew member. I don't like the idea of going to the bottom of the Atlantic after being depth-charged, torpedoed, or rammed. Ditto for being a figher pilot in the Luftwaffe. I would not want to be shot out of the air in flames and burning and crashing and burning some more. Both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe personnel at the sharp end were ruthlessly sacrificed in the last two years of the war. If I were in the Kriegsmarine or Luftwaffe, I'd have preferred to be pressed into service as infantry in a Volksgrenadier division towards the end of the war rather than be on a U-boat or in a fighter.

Anywhere. Luckily for us, we have the joys of hindsight!!

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Kicking up dust since 1978

I wouldnt serve in the pacific but i wouldnt refuse. Just like I didnt want to go to afghanistan but didnt refuse.

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"Fortune Favours The Brave"

I would not want to serve on the russian front. It looked like it was one of the worse fronts in the war. It was just about one big massive killing field on both sides.

With all respects.... Grave Registration Service would be very difficult.

Yes, that job would suck....

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On the Plains of Hesitation
lies the blackend bones of countless millions
who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest,
and resting died....
(author unknown-I wish it was me)