............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war....
Eastern, on the side of the Russians to be specific.
Sure, the fighting would be hell, but if you survive, you get rewarded with one of the wildest parties in the history of partydom, complete with the consumption of all the vodka in Russia.
............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... sSubZerOo
I chose the Pacific (on the US side) because the US valued the lives of their troops. Russia, Japan, and Germany didn't care about the human costs and only cared about winning.
[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... goth_bacon
I chose the Pacific (on the US side) because the US valued the lives of their troops. Russia, Japan, and Germany didn't care about the human costs and only cared about winning. Pretty much especially with the "Not One Step Back" order.
[QUOTE="goth_bacon"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... JasonDarksavior
I chose the Pacific (on the US side) because the US valued the lives of their troops. Russia, Japan, and Germany didn't care about the human costs and only cared about winning. Pretty much especially with the "Not One Step Back" order.
:| Your logic is flawless.. You include Russia and Germany in the equation suggesitng you had the choice who you fight for.. But then you don't include Japan in the Pacific theater. The only real military battles where the force only surrendered when the last man was dead/killed.... The Pacific arena was the bloodiest and most brutal battles of the entire war..
Eastern front by far. The battles were slightly less bloody, and the armies were at least somewhat humane to each other (regarding prisoners and such).
Both of those fronts were pretty brutal. I would prefer to be part of Operation Torch. I would have gotten to see beautiful Casablanca; plus I would have been fighting French people, so the going would have been pretty easy.
[QUOTE="JasonDarksavior"][QUOTE="goth_bacon"] I chose the Pacific (on the US side) because the US valued the lives of their troops. Russia, Japan, and Germany didn't care about the human costs and only cared about winning.sSubZerOo
Pretty much especially with the "Not One Step Back" order.
:| Your logic is flawless.. You include Russia and Germany in the equation suggesitng you had the choice who you fight for.. But then you don't include Japan in the Pacific theater. The only real military battles where the force only surrendered when the last man was dead/killed.... The Pacific arena was the bloodiest and most brutal battles of the entire war..
I don't get this logic. It took a lot more time and effort to end the war in Europe than it did in Japan. You say the pacific was much bloodier, but I've read about many of the battles in the Pacific being totally one sided.
the one where I don't have to fight, but could make beer for the troops. I am patriot, what can I say. Perhaps the most patriotic. Just not enough to go to war :P
Pacific war was hell on earth. No quarter was given by either side and bodies were mutilated (yes, by US troops as often as Japanese ones). The only front that even came close to being as bad as the pacific was in Russia, especially for German soldiers after the tide of war turned.
Eastern front by far. The battles were slightly less bloody, and the armies were at least somewhat humane to each other (regarding prisoners and such).
stanleycup98
I hope you are talking about the french/italian/north African campaigns and not the actual eastern front :?
Oh I never specified which theater i would fight in- probably the Italian campaign, where my uncle (who was nisei JapaneseI might add) fought andrecieved a purple heart.
I'd rather be an American figthing the Germans; far less brutal. The Russian/German theater was some of the most brutal fighting ever known to man, and the Pacific was close behind it.
............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... sSubZerOo
Russians lost 22 million on eastern front. Amercians lost around 150,000 on the pacific.
Obviously I wouldn't get to be in either and would probably be stuck in some munitions factory in Birmingham somewhere becoming a good friend of American soldiers. But I'd have at least tried to join the ATA or WASP.
I'd rather be an American figthing the Germans; far less brutal. The Russian/German theater was some of the most brutal fighting ever known to man, and the Pacific was close behind it.
stupid4
Yes, I agree with this. The other advantage is the pacific theatre wasn't as long.
............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... sSubZerOo
LMAO :D that's exactly what i was thinking. If i had to choose.
It would be the US in the European theater. Seriously aside from some really tough battles, the US had a pretty easy fight on it's hand.
It would be that or join the Desert Rats fighting the Germans on North Africa, the Battle of Al Alamain comes to mind.
Most dangerous part of the European theater was the Germans fighting the Russians. Seriously read up on it, pretty nightmarish conditions and battles that were fought. Not to mention if you were on the Soviet side and so much as kinda smiled at a Stalin joke you would of probably gotten a bullet to the back of the head.
[QUOTE="AgentA-Mi6"]A Pilot in the European theater, a German Pilot in a Messershmit 262.Tokugawa77
Half the time those things blew up on the runway ;)
U.S and British pilots were instructed not to let the ME 262s take off because they didnt stood a chance against them with Spitfires MKIIs or P51 mustangs and one ME262 alone was enough to slaughter an entire B17 squadron with the four 30mm mks they carried.
[QUOTE="AgentA-Mi6"]A Pilot in the European theater, a German Pilot in a Messershmit 262.AgentA-Mi6
Half the time those things blew up on the runway ;)
U.S and British pilots were instructed not to let the ME 262s take off because they didnt stood a chance against them with Spitfires MKIIs or P51 mustangs and one ME262 alone was enough to slaughter an entire B17 squadron with the four 30mm mks they carried.
The only problem was reliability issues. These jet fighters were like the tiger tanks of the sky- they were very intimidating, were armed and armored extremely well, but were way too complicated.
Half the time those things blew up on the runway ;)
Tokugawa77
U.S and British pilots were instructed not to let the ME 262s take off because they didnt stood a chance against them with Spitfires MKIIs or P51 mustangs and one ME262 alone was enough to slaughter an entire B17 squadron with the four 30mm mks they carried.
The only problem was reliability issues. These jet fighters were like the tiger tanks of the sky- they were very intimidating, were armed and armored extremely well, but were way too complicated.
Yeah im well aware of that, I wish things had gone down different but well. Its in the past now.
............ Ok no.. You guys seriously need to read up the theater of the Pacific.. It was some of the worse and bloodiest battles of the entire war.... sSubZerOo
But you're not going to freeze, starve ect, your family and loved ones aren't in the warzone... the warzone may be bad but the environment is friendlier
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