You in WWII

Jonb955 · Post by **Jonb955** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:52 pm

Its 1939 and you must be drafted by any country, even the pacific theatre. What would you do?

Freiritter · Post by **Freiritter** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:03 pm

U.S. I'd volunteer for the Army, join the Airborne as a rifleman.

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 5:16 pm

Probably doesn't matter. I can type 80-90 words a minute, so no matter which army drafted me, I'd end up being a clerk.

Groscurth · Post by **Groscurth** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:48 pm

I would be a mountainguide like allways. Prefere the Gebirgsjaeger on the 1945 Italy/France front or the French, much famous climbers from both sides have made there first contacts there and the respect for eachother was great. The stories are well knowed in my job about French that saw German climbers doing a "premiere" to a top via a new route and vice versa. They observed each others climbing with binoculors and wrote about it.
Finnish skitroops were nice to.

Debica Fusilier · Post by **Debica Fusilier** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:03 pm

Tom Houlihan · Post by **Tom Houlihan** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:13 pm

Swiss Journalism Corps!!!

That way, I could roam around and take notes and photos of everyone's stuff, then come back and write about it!!

Commissar D, the Evil · Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:16 pm

Hey, what can I say?

Best Regards,
Commissar D, the EviL

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:47 pm

Once shot - twice shy!

This time:

Royal Tibetan Corps of Gynecologists!

DeBaer · Post by **DeBaer** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:57 am

if i had no family to care for:
sign up to the Luftwaffe, flying towards Sweden due to a "compass failure", having to crash land because my engine died "by accident", managing to get to the next swedish airfield and live the rest of the war in peace.

with family:
telling my wife and children to move to a nice place somwhere in the countryside of Westphalia, sign up with Luftwaffe, being an engineer, die somewhere in Russia later in war because i was moved to a Felddivision.

Jez · Post by **Jez** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:17 am

I would be part of SS-Kriegsberichter or "SS-Standarte kurt Eggers"

Regards, Jez

Prit · Post by **Prit** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:26 am

Medical officer to the Swiss Women's Army Corps.

If I was feeling heroic: fallschirmjäger.

Fridolin · Post by **Fridolin** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:03 am

Batman to the military attaché in Madrid.
Else, cook in the Channel Islands garrison.
Clerk in charge of repairing Rudel's wooden leg each time it is shot to pieces.
If not allowed, Afrika Korps POW in Canada.

xausa · Post by **xausa** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:43 am

Florist NCO in the swedish army.

M.Wittmann · Post by **M.Wittmann** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:46 am

Rockerfeller's (grand-)son, save in the US

or

One of Joachim Peiper's (closest) friend/staff-members throughout the war. Just to get to know the man, the experiences during the war.

(Don't know if some one served the entire war with him as one of his staff

and survived it

)

Metroid 2 · Post by **Metroid 2** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:16 pm

Landser in the German 6th army 41-43