re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?

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for the WWI guys, remember that if you were going "over the top", that means you were on the front line, which means you were probably doing this multiple times and the causalities during WWI were absolutely astronomical, not to mention the conditions in which you were living for months at a time

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^This.

The hell that was trench warfare thankfully has not been repeated since. But if there ever was a close taste of what it was like to be a part of “going over the top” since the Great War, landing on the beaches of Normandy would be it.

I’d also include landing at Tarawa, Peleliu, and Iwo Jima. In fact, due to the make up and doctrine of the Japanese Army, I’d argue the inland campaigns of WWII were not that dissimilar to the trench warfare of WWI.