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re: It's 1943, you're 18 years old, which would terrify you more?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 4:59 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 6/14/19 at 4:59 pm to Darth_Vader
A, B, and C are the most terrifying to me.
A- cuz those frickers died often.
B- the Japanese were fanatics and the bugs were terrible so frick that.
C- cuz I’m afraid of heights.
I guess I’d choose D if I had to but I also don’t like the idea of being in a slow moving vehicle that can’t penetrate the enemy’s armor either.
A- cuz those frickers died often.
B- the Japanese were fanatics and the bugs were terrible so frick that.
C- cuz I’m afraid of heights.
I guess I’d choose D if I had to but I also don’t like the idea of being in a slow moving vehicle that can’t penetrate the enemy’s armor either.
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:05 pm to jcaz
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would rather quick mission over enemy territory then back to England
Mainland Europe was occupied by the Germans. Unless you were attacking the U-Boat pens along coast, which was certainly no milk run, then you were exposed to enemy AAA and fighters. Missions into Germany sometimes took 10 or 12 hours, with 8 or 10 over enemy territory.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:07 pm to Darth_Vader
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Being assigned to the 4th. Armored Div. as a tanker on an M4 Sherman
This was my grandpa. Sherman gunner.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:14 pm to beerJeep
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A. Being assigned as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber crew with the 8th. Air Force
quote:A film at the WWII museum states that the average life expectancy for a bomber crew was 7 missions. The US performed bomber missions in daylight to improve accuracy. Since the US didn't initially have a fighter plane capable of the range needed for these missions, the bombers had no fighter escorts. This all changed with the introduction of the P51 Mustang.
Bomber crews had the highest fatality rate if I remember correctly.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:15 pm to SeeeeK
I have bad flat feet. I wouldn't be going anywhere. All those single women.....
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:18 pm to Darth_Vader
B. because the South Pacific has always seemed romantic.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:34 pm to rt3
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put me in the navy on a damn submarine
iIRC, mortality rate of US submariners in WW2 was 25%. German submariners 75%
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:43 pm to Darth_Vader
A. Completely isolated and an easy target with zero control of leaving your post or retreat. Even if you are not hit and the plane goes down you get to watch yourself go down looking out the back of the plane waiting to die.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 5:45 pm to Darth_Vader
D for sure. Leading the charge for Patton.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 6:54 pm to Darth_Vader
8th Air Force and not close
Posted on 6/14/19 at 7:07 pm to Darth_Vader
E The Hump
One of my uncles was stationed there in the old Air Corps
Stories were pretty hardcore.
One of my uncles was stationed there in the old Air Corps
Stories were pretty hardcore.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:18 pm to Darth_Vader
Probably B since the Japanese were insane during WWII.
I’d take C if I had a choice.
I’d take C if I had a choice.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:29 pm to Darth_Vader
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You are correct. In fact, the 8th Air Force by itself suffered more casualties than the entire Marine Corps did in the Pacific Theater over the course of the war.
Tom Hanks and crew are doing a series on them. Due out next year I think.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:31 pm to Darth_Vader
A: Ball gunner. I don’t like confined places and your arse is basically hanging out in a fishbowl target. Much respect to those brave men.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:37 pm to Darth_Vader
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A. Being assigned as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber crew with the 8th. Air Force
My grandfather was in that plane as a bombardier dropping bombs over the South Pacific.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:38 pm to Darth_Vader
Not even close........
Jumping off a Higgins Boat LCVP .....first wave.....Omaha beach! Dawn June 6, 2044
I would have pissed in my pants. I know it.
Jumping off a Higgins Boat LCVP .....first wave.....Omaha beach! Dawn June 6, 2044
I would have pissed in my pants. I know it.
This post was edited on 6/14/19 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:40 pm to Darth_Vader
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Conversely, if you had to choose to do one of the above, which one would it be and why?
Of those four choices? Give me the 101st Airborne.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:44 pm to CrawDude
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iIRC, mortality rate of US submariners in WW2 was 25%. German submariners 75%
Mortality rate of men born in the USSR in 1923?
80% by 1946. That's legitimately fricked up. Where the U.S. and Western Europe (to a lesser degree, of course) had baby booms after the war, there are reverse booms in Russia.
Because those young men never grew up to be fathers, grandfathers or great-grandfathers to anyone at all. And it was a second consecutive generation off to slaughter (Germany and France dealt with that, too, but not nearly as severely as the Russians.)
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:46 pm to Brisketeer
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Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions in the 8th AF.
He also joined up before we were in the war.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 9:50 pm to Darth_Vader
I said the 8th earlier in this thread and wanted to post out something. I visited Italy earlier this year and stumbled upon the US cemetery north of Florence . It would amaze you the number of names on the wall of US service man who were not found . There are 4300 buried there and 1400 names on the wall of men not found . 95% of the names were army Air Force bomber grp.
This post was edited on 6/14/19 at 9:51 pm
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