Your role in WW2.
 

You are a civilian in any country you choose in the WW2 era, and must join the war. IF you had the choice, what would your job be? What country? Any specifics such as unit, battles and so on.

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Since my Grandfather came from Italy after WWII, then my choice for what country I would be fighting for would be Italy. I would want to join the paratroops, I would most likely want to join the 'Nembo' or the 'Folgore'. If it was 1940 or before, then I would have to join the Lybian Colonial Paratroopers. Meaning I would have fought at Derna and would have fought as a rear-gaurd for the 10th army after Op. compass. If I joined 'Folgore' 'Nembo', well you all know where they fought most notably. I would settle for a regular rifleman, but would prefer to have an SMG because of that Bretta 38. But I would NOT want to be a LMG member because than I would have to man that god awful Breda 30.

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Fighting with claws and teeths for Norway! When we after many months of bitter fighting will have to capitulate, I'll hitch a ride with a fisherman over to the UK to continue the fighter from there. Favourite role would have to be a fighter pilot flying Spits for the 331 Sqd. (No) of the 2nd Tactical Air Force.

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I read about a comic-book artist who got fired up with patriotism about 1942 and ran off to enlist. The army put him to work....Drawing comic books. He did "instructional" books and things meant to fire up the troops.

Sounds like as good a way to pass a war as any....

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I'd either be in a Tiger in Italy, or an Adjutant for my Grandmothers Grandfather, Kommandant von Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz...

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Well lets see.

I couldnt/wouldnt join the German army because 1: They lost and 2: I'm circumcised.
I wouldnt join Russia because being worthless cannon fodder isnt fun.
I wouldnt join Japan because I don't agree with their ideals. But if I did agree with their ideals, I would proabably be an ohka pilot or some other kamikazi. Dead serious.
I would probably join America as a sniper.
I might join Finland as infantry (or a tanker) because Finland is awesome.
I would probably join the Polish army as a 7tp tanker.

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7tp tanker? That's not much better than beeing russian, is it? :p

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Yeah, but it works great against panzer IIs. :D

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In FH, that is... ;)

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I would definately like to be in England and later take part in invasion of Normandy as a paratrooper. Hard to choose though if British or American, Brits had great country, planning and accent while Amies got great area for their operations.:D

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Also beeing stationed as a german troop in Sweden/norway would be nice, all they basicly suffered from was the strange day/night circling...
In fact, Germany lost more soldiers there that went into psychological treatment, than against the enemy or the resistance :p

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Id like to be a POW in America! :-D

Or Japanese, and i'd get two katanas and an emergency suicide bomb

But seriously, id like to be a Volkstrumm member, not only am I old enough, but the idea of resistance defending against amazing odds no matter how horrible the situation is just puts me in awe.

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Hehehe. True.
I belive a number between 200000-300000 lucky German soldiers were stationed there right to the end of the war. Waiting for an invasion that never came...

You'll be dead before supper-time, kiddo.

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Devils brigade (1st Special Service Force), a Canadian-American commando unit fighting alongside each other in Italy (Naples, Foggia, Anzion, Rome-Arno) during 1943-44. Hilltop hopping basicly, taking out German fortifications. Devils Brigade, especially the Canadians of Devils brigade were known for leaving notes attatched to German corpses by knife for the enemy to find to demoralize the enemy. A truly great force.

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i'd do what my grandpappy did: stateside navy recruiter! :naughty:





in all seriousness, artillery or anti aircraft gunner.

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My trusty panzerfausts will kill those ruskies! :-D

My string of thought is practically the same. I think of tank-hunting as a game of hide and go seek combined with elements of tag.

They need to give the panzerfaust kit an MP40...

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I have not been to war, but I am smart enough to know know that comparing war to a game will get you killed in a second.

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Dr.Goebbels would send your Volkssturm unit headlong into a giant russian advance, misinformed, undergunned and under fire. Volkssturm was a death sentence but none the less a noble cause which i would fight in to defend my country if my country needed it. Canada all the way bitches.

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I realise that, but Hitler Youth really did think of tank-hunting as a game, and strangly were very successful.

No, do not think of me as an immature little trigger happy child who just wants to go to war to shoot people. Ive read enough books (thick books, not picture ones!) and I know its horrors.

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I woulda joined Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry (who are currently serving in afghanistan) or Lord Strathcona's horse (tank), or maybe been an AA gunner in the royal navy like my grandpa was :D

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I would never want to be involved in a war like WW2, the horrors those men had to go through is aw-inspiring, I could never face anything like that. I salute every single one of them, from every country, good and bad for what they went through

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i'm sure if any of you actualy knew what war is like, you would just sign up as army cooks lol

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Wow.

Wow because I'd join the Free French Army as a rifleman in order to help liberate France. I'd like to be a part of the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy, but then transfered to the French 2nd Armored to take part in the liberation of Paris. And if I had knowledge that I was from the future (meaning I somehow went back in time to participate), I'd try to squeeze my way through and get an autograph of Dietrich von Choltitz! (Hey, guy helped save Paris in a way.)

Of course, this was only supposing I had to join an army, since knowing me I probably wouldn't do so voluntarily.

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I'd be Monsieur Rick. Yossarian can be Captain Renault.

Or either Private Kelly or Sgt. Oddball, plotting to make off with Nazi millions.

Oh, real people you say?

How about "Wild Bill" Donovan, coming up with crackpot ideas to assassinate Nazi thugs on the toilet.

Or Francis "Gabby" Gabreski, knocking down the hun, one at a time.

Or maybe this guy:

http://images.google.com/images?q=tb....%25201945.jpg

I always liked his style, especially the pearl-handled .45s. And putting paid to legions of pantz0r whores is always a Good Thing. Or how about Dugout Doug (same thing, snappy dresser, and love the pipe):

http://images.google.com/images?q=tb..._macarthur.jpg

Can't say I'd go for the Russians/Japanese/Italians/Germans (don't like totalitarian regimes much, especially LOSER ones), or the British or French (too snooty.)

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they were ivory, he once stated that only a cheap New Orleans pimp carries a pearl-handled gun. also, one of them was a .45 and the other was (dont hold me to this) a nickle plated and ivory grip colt peacemaker.

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I'm sure if you actually noticed that this was for fun you wouldn't make smart-ass comments. :D

Ontopic: I would definately be an RCAF pilot, either spit or lancaster like my grandpapa. If not I would be a German Tiger commander.

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Throw me in with the 761st Tank Battalion:D.

The '40s wouldn't have alot of exciting war options open for me.:(

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Whatever, you anal-retentive killjoy pedant nitpicker. Anyone that runs around in a silver helmet and jodhpurs, wiping out the armored boche hordes, is O-tay in my book.

And what's wrong with New Orleans pimps? Neither the Germans nor the Japanese had any New Orleans pimps on their side, and look at what happened to them.

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It's insane to discuss about where, when and how you would have liked to fight. We should be happy that we do not have to experience war at all!

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I'd like to be a resistance fighter in France, mainly because being sneaky, shooting Germans in the back with single shot pistols, and helping shot down pilots reach safety is definately my thing.

Or I'd like to be Sean Connery in "A Bridge Too Far", and carry a Webley,

As foodmaniac said, fighting against overwhelming odds can be fun, however, only if you're fighting zombies (the zombies I'm referring to are from "The Zombie Survival Handbook", none of this Half-Life stuff, just regular stupid, slow moving zombies, like in Shawn of the Dead).

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Of course, this is more fantasy then actual war. As for myself, since my family was in Germany at the time, sign me up for MG-Schütze in the Wehrmacht. I prefer to keep my ass on the ground.

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lol wow so much for honour

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at least he will be able to kill more german officer than any enlisted soldier ! :naughty:

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I'd offer some NSDAP fat cat to herd his sheep for free, if he takes care that I don't have to go to war. ;)

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Probably a Tankette TKS commander :evilgrin:

Ph34r me!

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There's a tough one. In seriousness, I wouldn't mind commanding a mobile artillery battery in Italy - great landscape, and you're actually doing fighting without much risk of dying (counter battery fire and air attack noted). In a fantasy where I couldn't die, I certainly wouldn't mind being a British infantryman fighting my way through Caen with a Sten or SMLE.

Of course, if this were the real thing, back then I'd either have been in Malta, England or Denmark - the first one I'd probably get a job at the docks like my grandfather, either find myself pulled into the PBI in Portsmouth or into the Navy for the second one, and probably sat tight with my family in Denmark. Might've delivered resistance newspapers like my great grandfather, but I'm not much of the type to go blowing up railway lines.

EDIT: Nearly forgot - at least one ride in a Lancaster during a night time raid would be sweet as heck. Assuming we didn't eat FlaK.

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Oh please...they were nowhere near what I would call successful. I wouldnt call killing one T-34 in exchange for twenty 12-15 year olds succsessful. The Volksturm, and Hitlerjugend units sent to war was mostly KIA or even worse.

In real life, you dont get to respawn...

We can't realy understand war just by reading about it from books.

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If I had a choice I would be German stationed in DK, the whip cream front

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hehe exactly my thoughts too. great documentary (whip cream front), some of those german soldiers really loved denmark.
apperently the best place you could be in ww2

but if i have to be a bit patriotic i guess i would have joined the danish resistance like my grandfather

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That, or Switzerland and Sweden :)

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well for a german soldiers that is.

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yes, if I had to be patriotic I would join the resistance too, or just keep myself out of everything

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Hungarian infantry/pilot....

Reality:
-No pilot license due to sight
-skill wise tailgunner to a Stuka :(

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Captured Nazi scientist Dr. Merkwürdigeliebe...if any of you get that, you get a brownie.

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^captured by the russians, after conducting experiments on russian pows

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It's dr Strangelove!! Ooh, gimme a brownie.:D

Seriously now, if i was born in the early 1920's, i would either be a gunner on a T.13BIII tankhunter (sig) in the "tweede lanciers" armoured division of the Belgian army, or a infantryman, armed with an m89, m36, or an fm30, in the "eerste linie" division. After the wise decision of our Dear King Leopold III, to surrender to the Germans, I will go to a POW camp in Poland. Then i will overtake the camp with some fellow Belgians and Dutchies and escape to Spain through Switzerland. When i get to England with a rubber boat, I will enlist to join the Brigade Piron, in which i shall fight the German oppressor till the bitter end, his or mine ;)

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<.<...I ate the brownie, I didn't expect anyone to get it...>.>...*stops right hand from strangling him*

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Sir, I agree with you 100% Anywayz ignoring that he said I would go with the 2nd Infantry Division Rangers. Or the 1st British Airborne... UGHH its such a hard choice :( SOMEONE HOLD ME!

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Well, I'd yell some French taunt (graciously provided by Monty Python and the Holy Grail) and as he turns around, pop him in the face with my Liberator.

How's that for honour :P

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<THREAD HIJACK!>

Screw Liberators. They shoulda just cranked up mass production of Mossberg 12-gauges and air dropped those over occupied Europe. So you want to knock fear into the heart of some nazi thug because he'll never know if Monsieur Pierre is packing? Well imagine that if he was likely to have a pump-action large caliber shotgun instead of some little dinky one-shot popgun!

Just insert that gratuitous *kerr-chikk* BOOM! into any number of WWII movies. Like Tom Hanks potting away at the Panzer with his .45:

Panzer: rumble rumble rumble
Tom Hanks: *kerr-chikk* BOOM!

OK, he still would have died, but it would have been a lot cooler.

Or Vassili Zaitsev: "With your permission, comrade commissar" *kerr-chikk* BOOM! *kerr-chikk* BOOM! *kerr-chikk* BOOM! *kerr-chikk* BOOM! *kerr-chikk* BOOM! as another one bites the dust.

Or poor little Anne Frank, huddled in her attic, waiting for the goons to arrive. No more of this passive fatalism. Instead,

Nazi thug: "OPEN UP! IN ZE NAME OF ZE FUHRER!" *bangs down door*
Anne Frank: *kerr-chikk* BOOM! "Hah, take that you miserable hun!"

Or Col. Stauffenberg, in the Wolfsschanze. Screw bombs, just imagine a meeting room, from the outside.

Hitler: "But, vhat are you doink, Stauffenberg? Put zat awa.."
*kerr-chikk* BOOM! *kerr-chikk* BOOM! ...etc...as the windows light up from the inside with a series of loud, resounding large-caliber explosions.

Or do you think the Allies would have suffered such losses at D-Day if they'd all been armed with 12-gauges? Probably not, and the sound effects would have been far more gratifying.

And the German war machine wouldn't have gotten more than 300 meters inside of Belgium or Poland if it had been confronted with entire populations of shotgun-wielding farmers. No part of the world would have lived under tyranny and fear, thanks to the knowledge that at any moment, air-dropped pallets full of 12-gauge goodness would drop from the skies in the name of freedom.

http://www.militaryfactory.com/small...ossberg590.jpg

Remember kids, an armed society is a polite society.