11-02-2020, 01:41 PM | #31 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
I'll go one better. SOE communications officer working in France. Accounted one of the most dangerous jobs.
Back then they did not have Burn Notice style throwaway phones. They had to haul around suitcase sized systems and set up the antenna in odd places. The Germans could track the bearing from multiple listening posts within a few minutes.
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11-02-2020, 05:24 PM | #33 | |
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11-03-2020, 06:02 AM | #34 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
One of the "old timers" in my synagogue was US Marine pathfinder in the pacific. He said his job was to go ahead of the main-force units. Look-for & disarm booby traps. He said it was a job with a high casualty rate.
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11-03-2020, 07:52 AM | #36 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Did you watch/listen to it? Guy with beard (aka. Lindybeige) talks about British officers and why they didn't duck.
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11-03-2020, 02:12 PM | #37 |
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One of the bagpipers from the British D-Day landings apparently stood in the open and marched up and down playing the pipes. Allegedly after the war he met with a German veteran of the beach defenders and asked "Did you not see me? Why did you not shoot me?" The reply he is meant to have got was "Yes, we did see you, but we thought you had gone mad and it would be cruel."
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11-03-2020, 03:37 PM | #38 | |
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11-04-2020, 12:23 PM | #39 |
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Weren't these the guys that were reborn as the SEALs after the war? UDT/beach recon?
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11-04-2020, 01:27 PM | #40 | |
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Meanwhile, the precursors to the SEALS were Navy divers doing the "UD" thing which stands for "underwater demolitions". Marines don't go swimming unless the Navy doesn't hold up their end of the deal. :) Every US armed service has to have its' separate force of Spec Ops (except maybe the Coast Guard).
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