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re: WWII: Would You Choose the Pacific or Europe?
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:15 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:15 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Damn I've read this whole thread and learned more about WWII then I ever did in school.
Thanks for the lessons everyone, interesting stuff
Thanks for the lessons everyone, interesting stuff
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Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:17 pm to Darth_Vader
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And the numbers don't lie, the ETO was a meat grinder on a scale that dwarfed the Pacific.
The Italian theatre was quite the meat grinder.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:18 pm to asurob1
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I spoke to more then on vet from the war (sadly there are too few left) most of them in europe wanted to be in the pacific and most in the pacific wanted europe.
Grass is always greener ;-).
my grandfather was a foot soldier in europe and my great uncle was a B-24 pilot. Both wanted to change places
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:30 pm to WeeWee
Europe for sure, the Japs were nutters, still I reckon Africa would have been better, least Rommel had some integrity.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:37 pm to Sevendust912
I agree this has been an amazing thread!!!
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:38 pm to skyau
The guy I knew with the coolest story was a former OSS man who hunted Nazi agents In S America. He said their main adversary was the FBI, which also claimed responsibility for counterintelligence.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 11:54 pm to cdaniel76
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After the battle of Guadalcanal, the Marines got dumped in Australia and them women down under threw it all over them boys!
My paw paw (3rd Division) went to New Zealand for R&R after Guam. I was just talking to my dad yesterday and seeing if his dad told him much about his experience. He said as he got older he told some more. My grandfather said it was awful and that he had to kill or be killed. They wouldn't quit. "And if it wasn't the Japs, then it would be some sort of disease that would get you..." Crazy times.
He was in a newspaper write up for taking out a whole bunch of Japs. My dad still has the flag and sword from a Japanese soldier my grandfather killed. I got the flag cleaned up and sealed at the WW2 Museum for my dad years ago for his birthday.
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Pacific. Other one was in the Navy. You choose Europe every time over Pacific.
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 12:23 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:38 am to rmnldr
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Pacific. I'd rather sweat my arse off and pop japs by the dozen than freeze my arse off while panzer divisions try to kill me.
Watch Chosin. You freeze in the Pacific too. Marines were outnumbered but Chinese soldiers were in bad shape weapons and clothes-wise. Great documentary.
The battle of Okinawa was hell to see what they did, too.
ETA: Chosin was after WW2 but we did go to war with North Korea not that long after.
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 1:40 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:08 am to undecided
Europe.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 4:22 am to Sevendust912
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Damn I've read this whole thread and learned more about WWII then I ever did in school. Thanks for the lessons everyone, interesting stuff
Hell, like Darth and the rest, I have been a student of this for most of my life and have learned a few things!
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 4:23 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:24 am to undecided
aneywhere but the eastern front.
If we are talking strictly as an Ameracin then I would prefer Europe. At least you would occasionally get fed great meals and raid wine cellars.
If we are talking strictly as an Ameracin then I would prefer Europe. At least you would occasionally get fed great meals and raid wine cellars.
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 6:27 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:41 am to TIGRLEE
Europe
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:55 am to cascadia
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Watch Chosin.
One of the most powerful war documentaries I've ever seen.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:59 am to 70739tigah
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id rather drive the deuce and a half in europe
ISWYDT
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:14 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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One of the most powerful war documentaries I've ever seen.
No doubt. I have been trying to find the old wartime documentaries like Ford's Battle of Midway - specifically the one's made during the war. Have you seen any/know where they can be found?
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:22 am to Spaceman Spiff
Afraid I can't help you. At least not with anything you haven't already seen. When I was a kid I was a huge WWII buff. Had seen every doc and movie made and made models of probably every American aircraft used during the war. Then life happened. This thread has re sparked my interest though. Might have to get back into it.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:23 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Hell, like Darth and the rest, I have been a student of this for most of my life and have learned a few things!
No doubt. In my novice opinion, and I may be pointing out the obvious, but I'd rather be in the Pacific than on one of those first waves at Omaha.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:33 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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Afraid I can't help you. At least not with anything you haven't already seen. When I was a kid I was a huge WWII buff. Had seen every doc and movie made and made models of probably every American aircraft used during the war. Then life happened. This thread has re sparked my interest though. Might have to get back into it.
As a kid, I was really into the air war aspect of it (due to my Grandfather's experiences) and could tell you everything about almost every plane used. I also built models and as you said, life happened. I got back into and started building again - and now I do it with my son who absolutely loves it. Now he is becoming a plane nut.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:34 am to Jim Rockford
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FBI
Or CIA?
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