If the year was 1944 would you.....

[Zip]

....sign up to the army and become a soldier?

Last year i know i wouldnt have but today i think i would, even though we know what the condisions were like on the battle field back then and the chance of being killed.

So would you sign up and fight for your country or what ever you have to fight for?

Edit: Or Join the airforce and navy.
And none of this behind the desk jobs. Im talking frontline stuff

Edit again: For those people that coment it wasnt very hard after 1944 how about i ad in the ability to join up from the beginning

 

[Zip]

It wasn't a matter of "Signing up" but yes I would - it'd make me the most proud one can be bar having children.

So the British army was conscripts?

Sorry for my ignorance, i thought the were volunteers(well they chose to sign up but got paid a tiny bit of money)
I thought you lot were the same as us

 

[Zip]

1944? The war's almost over! Why aren't you over there fighting already soldier?

It was the year a lot of people remember

 

[Zip]

Yes, infact every single thing everyone did was towards the war effort. It's known as "Total War" where every bit of productivity be it farming or factory production is turned to prioritise the war.

I think it was like that down here aswell.
Except our army was all volenteers and all of them chose to go fight, thats the same as WW1 aswell.
Brave lads they must have been

 

[Zip]

I know that the Japanese were pretty nasty to our POWs in the Far East, but at least they didn't go around systematically firebombing major cities.

Sorry but you musnt have heard about darwin.
The Japanese came and bombed Darwin with quite abig force.
It wasnt a figher bomb attack but they still hit it quite hard.
Luckerly they got held off or the war could have lasted for many more years if they got into Australia.

 

[Zip]

It was all down to my Grandad in the Royal Marines

If he was a brit then he wouldnt have been here.

Churchill would even let Australia have some some of there Soldiers back from over in the middle east to help defend Australia and to push back the Japanese out of Papua new Guinea.
The Japanese were held off and pushed back by mostly Army Reserves.

 

[Zip]

I think you'll find I know where my Grandad was. He was stationed in Africa for most of the war, then was moved to the Pacific as part of the now known SBS, so SMD.

What part of the Pacific?
We had some Brits fighting alongside Australians but not many.
Im talking about through Papua New Guinea and Singapore.

There were british in the island of the Pacific where a lot of Americans were as well

 

[Zip]

If I had nothing to live for, i.e. no family, no loved ones nothing, then if it wasn't for conscription I'd probably do it. But really I'd be a conscientious objector. I'd have to believe in the war I'm fighting to take part in one.

WW2 was awful and a tragic loss of life - it always makes me feel sad thinking about it actually. Especially having spent a lot of time walking around the trenches in France and seeing the mass graves, it really hits it home.

I guess I'm a wimp or not brave enough - but that's with hindsight - maybe at the time I'd join in the folly of patriotism and wouldn't think about the consequences. IT's hard to make an impartial decision now having seen the devastation caused.

Tbh If i had a Girl friend i loved(or just a really good friend) and a lot more people that would miss me if i died then i wouldnt go.

But Since i dont, i would join have joined up

 

[Zip]

It is quite hard to say, as I am not in the position where I would know, the pressure and patrisim of the time would be what will make me sign up. Knowing the conditions, not the front line. Fighting for the country is good, but suicide is a real turn off. Atleast in the Airforce you really get to live before you get shot down.

(Expects a roll eyes.)

In the battle of Brittan, didnt a lot of pilots only get about 2 or 3 weeks training before they were sent out to defend the country?
And a lot of pilots get shot down with in there first 6 flights?

Saying that, i wouldnt have minded flying in the battle of brittan