Where would YOU serve in WW2?

Though this would be apropos here also.


http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-general/24222-soldier-strips-romance-out-life-war-2.html#post318224

 

Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front.

 

In the Royal Dutch Marines.
Defending the bridges in Rotterdam, May 1940.


Cheers,

Dutchie

 

good luck with that one. give me a GD Tiger and im set

 

A-20 pilot, anti sub unit on the upper US west coast.

 

A new one, one of the sailors on the Richelieu.. my favourite battleship.

 

I would join the Waffen-SS, preferably in the 1st or 2nd Divisions as a Panzergrenadier. It'd be pretty cool to have been an MG-42 gunner

 

Oh really?? And what pray tell would be so "Cool" about it?

 

i just like that gun. if i was out on the front line, i'd want something with as much firepower as possible, and that's it

 

I'd be a Desert Rat... Give me a rifle, some bombs and I'll be out there in the desert

 

T-34 crewman in the Soviet Army at the Battle of Kursk. I'm sure I had relatives who were.

 

I would be the guy firing Gustav!

 

I wouldn't mind the Home Guard actually.

 

I think I would have wanted to have been a Jedburgh as long as I did not need to parachute in to my objectives!

 

I think I will go for a PT instructor for females on Hawaii.

Regards
Kruska

 

I think I would have served in Western Europe after d0Day and Bocage.

 

Jagdtiger!!!!!!!!

 

So, you would willingly want to spend all of your time alternately freezing to death and trying to keep a 75 ton POS running while retreating from the Allies hum? The detail histories of the two battalions of Jagdtiger formed (the 653rd and 512th) don't paint pretty pictures of an easy life.
If anything, both battalions spent all of their time trying to survive and little more. But, to each his own.

 

LOL So very true T.A.!!!! I was just thinking the same thing.

 

Even though my own Father was a pilot in Transport Command until 1944 when he was rotated home, I myself would probably follow my maternal uncles into the USN, as I did in real life.

My Dad already had his private pilot's license when Pearl was bombed, and he just enlisted in the USAAF as soon as he could get to a recuiting center. I asked him why he didn't try to go into the Navy as a naval aviator, and he told me he never learned to swim and was terrified of water he couldn't wade across.

Good reason for staying out of the USN I guess! Since I was a Machinist Mate, and just "went where they sent me" the same would be true undoubtely in WW2 as it was in the Vietnam era.