If the year was 1944 would you.....
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Zip said:
Well, you'd have to join one way or another with conscriptions around the corner
EDIT:
A huge amount of our army was also from our colonial ties.
Early in the war we were completely volunteers. Towards 1946 IIRC onwards we began conscripting.
As already said, by 44', I'm not sure that it was optional, and I think that most were "called up", pretty sure my grandfather was, and he was in Burma.
June the 6th was a pretty quiet day for most of our chaps, most of our guys stolled off the ships with little actual opposition on day 1, unlike the US, who called pasted on Omaha beach.
Got a lot more tricky after that with a lot of scrapping against the Germans until Patton broke through and the whole German front line collapsed.
As for really nasty times, here's a few:
- For us, being amongst the parachute regiments flown into Arnhem. Probably the biggest losses that the British took in Northern europe
- Being on the receiving end of the German response at the "Bulge", when the Germans attempted their last key counterattack of WW2 in the West
- Fighting almost anywhere on the Eastern front, on either side
- Being on the receiving end of the firebombing raids in Japan. Many people mention Dresden, and for good reason. Picture a similar bombing raid over Tokyo, where the houses are made of wood and not stone, and the fire defenses are completely inadequate. The result were more deaths in one night than from either of the atomic attacks. 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.
June the 6th was a pretty quiet day for most of our chaps, most of our guys stolled off the ships with little actual opposition on day 1, unlike the US, who called pasted on Omaha beach.
Got a lot more tricky after that with a lot of scrapping against the Germans until Patton broke through and the whole German front line collapsed.
As for really nasty times, here's a few:
- For us, being amongst the parachute regiments flown into Arnhem. Probably the biggest losses that the British took in Northern europe
- Being on the receiving end of the German response at the "Bulge", when the Germans attempted their last key counterattack of WW2 in the West
- Fighting almost anywhere on the Eastern front, on either side
- Being on the receiving end of the firebombing raids in Japan. Many people mention Dresden, and for good reason. Picture a similar bombing raid over Tokyo, where the houses are made of wood and not stone, and the fire defenses are completely inadequate. The result were more deaths in one night than from either of the atomic attacks. 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.
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Visage said:
Who needs to respawn when you activate god mode.
Mr_Sukebe said:
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.
Zefan said: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.
I would sign up, My grandad went to war, The stories he told me where just amazing. He was a POW in Japan after travelling around the world with the army, the way he was treated was bad but he survived and he came back to England and worked down the mines for years, brought up my dad, he lived till 80 after, I still wish he was alive today but I am always proud of him and I have been handed his medals and his signed letter from the King for his service in the war and being a POW.
I was thinking about signing up to the army now, but I would just be sent to Iraq to fund Americas OIL funland.
1944 Army helping to save the fellow man from the Germans and its evil plan.
2006 Army helping to get America out of the **** so they can have cheap oil and still spending trillions on a pointless huge army.
I was thinking about signing up to the army now, but I would just be sent to Iraq to fund Americas OIL funland.
1944 Army helping to save the fellow man from the Germans and its evil plan.
2006 Army helping to get America out of the **** so they can have cheap oil and still spending trillions on a pointless huge army.
Zefan said:
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
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id sign up for sure.
be better than going to uni and finding a job.
at least id have a clear purpose in life.... and money would be irrelevant for a year.
like zefan said.... dying on a battlefield will be a good way to die... be a lot better than dying of some stupid disease
be better than going to uni and finding a job.
at least id have a clear purpose in life.... and money would be irrelevant for a year.
like zefan said.... dying on a battlefield will be a good way to die... be a lot better than dying of some stupid disease