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re: WWII: Would You Choose the Pacific or Europe?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 7:16 am to maine82
Posted on 7/10/14 at 7:16 am to maine82
Something else to consider: in the pacific, you were on an operation for a few weeks up to a month or two, the back to a real area to red and retrain for a few months. A guy in Europe who went ashore on D day would be in combat for nearly a year without a break.
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Posted on 7/10/14 at 7:53 am to Jim Rockford
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Something else to consider: in the pacific, you were on an operation for a few weeks up to a month or two, the back to a real area to red and retrain for a few months. A guy in Europe who went ashore on D day would be in combat for nearly a year without a break.
Not necessarily. Combat wasn't constant and was more like a little here and there (little meaning not months) and there was R&R. Your post, while more or less true in a sense is also misleading. But you are correct in that they didn't go back like in the PTO.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 8:31 am to Jim Rockford
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Something else to consider: in the pacific, you were on an operation for a few weeks up to a month or two, the back to a real area to red and retrain for a few months. A guy in Europe who went ashore on D day would be in combat for nearly a year without a break.
The notion that combat in the Pacific was short but especially bloody while combat in Europe was a drawn-out slugging match is a bit of a myth. I posted this earlier in this thread....
Days of Combat
The 5 divisions with the most days of combat are listed below.
32 Inf: 654 days (Pacific)
Americal Inf: 600 days (Pacific)
37th Inf: 592 days (Pacific)
3rd Inf: 531 Days (Med & Europe)
1st Cav: 521 Days (Pacific)
The top three and four of the top five divisions with the most days in combat during WWII served in the Pacific.
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