Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:42 am Post subject: So I was talking with my friend...
and we were debating whether if we were soldiers during WW2...Where would we prefer to fight, European theatre or Pacific theatre?
He said definitely pacific because the figting wasn't nearly as intense and there were much longer periods where you just sat and enjoyed yourself on those tropical islands....
I said Europe because you get to see more of the famous cities and the japanese were crazy suicidal warriors, plus nothing beats simply BEING in europe
but then he pointed out...that the only thing i'd be seeing is rubble, destroyed buildings, and holes in the ground...
i'm curious where you guys would prefer fighting??
Well, the pacific theatre was still pretty intense.
Would love to say europe but it depends where.
The slaughterhouse that was russia?
The grindhouse that was italy?
The endless beach of Africa?
Hedgerows and partisans in Western front?
Or island hopping would be interesting.
Even after all that, i still don't know.
Also depends on which side
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: mmm
i think a nice storeman job in sydney harbour would of been nice, just not on hmas kanimbela in 42".
jungle heat or snow? i'd have to say jungle,as its what we trained for,what i trained for,and if ur good enough, we showed we could take out japs with superiour numbers. i also think gerry was a lot more 'creative' as sapper work goes,and general weaponary to japs.
lol.....several good points ronson....for some reason, even though i was thinking about Europe, it didn't cross my mind to consider Russia. Weird too since I just saw the movie Stalingrad.
I mean, Russia was HELL. A total death zone. hmmm...now im rethinking
I recall a documentary about the war in Egypt and Lybia, and a veteran who was asserting that he had the best part of the war. Beautiful landscapes, open skies, heroic charges. Compared to the european theater, he said he had some luck, at least.
As for me, I'd have gone for Erythrea, or Burma.
Definately would have volunteered to go invade and take on the Vichy French in Tahiti during WW2. All those heaveliy armed half-naked Tahitian women in grass skirts, wow, what a campaign that would have been! Afterwards, just leave me there as part of the occupation force and forget about me. It would have been a hell of a duty, but someone would have had to do it, and I would have reluctantly volunteered.
An american author writes that fighting in the Pacific was safer as opposed to Europe. In the Pacific the fighting was very intense but when it was over that was it, all the Japanese were dead and that left long periods of rest. Whereas for instance one American division in Europe was in the line for over one year and suffered horrendous casualties with never getting rest.
But the Eastern front would have to rewrite any ideas with neither side showing mercy and total brutality being the norm.
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