Where would YOU serve in WW2?

Wasn't It Morphine?

 

I would be there with you my friend!

 

You're right Huffy, morphine it is

 

in the bunker just at the moment old adolf did the deed

 

If I could have served in any "army group" during the wwII era I would have to say the SS-hitler's personal bodyguards- himmler would have been a great leader under the third reich, his passion for germany and the way he felt about his leader-Adolf, in the ealy days of the war would have been unexplainable damn why couldn't i've been born in the 1930's lol

 

You can never be 100% sure that hitler actually did commit suicide but then again whos knows

 

Wonders never cease

 

I would serve in the European Theater. If you served in the Pacific theater and got captured and was a POW you would be killed and totured. The Germans usaully followed the Geneva Convention For American Soldiers. So i would serve in the European Theater.

 

the key word here being 'usually' but you are right, I have read lots concerning the japanese and their belief that anyone who would surrender was deserving of the worst treatment. I would have fought in Europe myself, waffen-ss if possible by birth.

 

i would say US 101st Airborne.
basically because thats who most of the re enactors are re enacting.

 

They didn't used to re-enact in WWII

*TheThirdReich* you SS lover or something?

Because I don't think you really know who Himmler was.
1) Himmler wanted all the power for himself
2) Himmler only listened to Adolf, so the SS would be a priority
3) Himmler never fought, he only signed death papers and secret meetings with the SS-Headpieces to talk about the Destroyment of the Jews
4) If you were born in the Thirthies you would've been a HJunge
5) I'm the one whos born to late, ask Za he knows it

 

Have you noticed the more experienced members here tend to go for the cushie jobs?

I woldn't mind being a guard in an Italian POW camp in Britian, not a lot of trouble tends to come from them.

 

Indeed, neither does he know anything about the SS.

Don't think that life was easy after the war.

 

And where might that be? Most of the reenators here in the US are not portraying the 101st.

 

Well, I must say that I prefer the Arctic!

The freezing cold of the Arctic has many advantages:
No mud, no mosquitos, no flies, no snakes, no spiders, no crocodiles, no rotten food and no stench from decaying bodies!

When you get used to the cold, it is actually comfortable. The body adapts to the below-zero-temperatures, and after a while you need less clothing as your system starts to produce more heat.
You can eat as much as you want without gaining weight!

You make igloos (a kind of snow houses) or dig down into a snow drift.
The snow insulates, and the temperature inside is around freezing point, which is comfortable.

Having spent most of my lifetime above the Arctic Circle, I know this climate and feel comfortable with it.

Nothing is like an Arctic winter night, full moon and just the ice cold, deep frozen silence!

Regards
RAM

 

In a slight derailment, it would take a lot of guts to be a medic.

You would have to serve without a weapon, armed only with the knowledge that people aren't "supposed" to shoot you. You would have to be the one running around in an artillery attack, while your buddies take cover in foxholes. You would quite literally see the face of war, see buddies die horrible deaths three feet away from you, see friends and foe alike wounded close-up...and I haven't even started about the Pacific Front.

If I had to choose a normal combat job, it would be that of a medic. Taking lives is something that I could not do well, even if the alternative was just, if not more, dangerous.

 

I would say i would stay in my same division (4thID) and fight along side my grandfather would be my first choice.

my 2nd choice would be the 101st just because i like jumping out of planes

my 3rd choice would be a pilot in a cadilac of the sky p-51d

 

The US Navy on either the USS Alaska or USS Guam. The only CB"S ever built.

 

If the war happened today and I was who I am now..

i would probably volunteer for the US Navy. I would probably try to get into either the submarine force (small, tight-knit crew, lax discipline, highly trained and determined crews.)

Or I'd try to become a Navy Corpsman. I'd much rather save lives than take them. (of course the second the first bullet snapped past my head I'm sure I would rather be anywhere else in the world. Amazing how fast aggressive young men lose their taste for battle )