11-01-2020, 01:24 AM | #11 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Interesting, and believable. The radio guy is literally the enemy's summoner.
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11-01-2020, 01:07 AM | #12 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
And the guy who can cast Fireball, given a few minutes for the shells to arrive.
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11-01-2020, 04:32 AM | #13 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
I don't know what was really the most dangerous job. But the job of the ball-turret gunner was definitely seen as the most dangerous at the time. Major poets wrote about it. When I'm not using my phone, I'll post a link
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11-01-2020, 04:41 AM | #14 | |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
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Another bad one would be soviet forces in basically any role posted to the western border in 1941 before the offensive, the best you can hope for is two or so years of living of the land as a partisan but most likely 4 years in prison camps / work details with atrocious survival rates. But basically hazard is more determined by place and time than role. |
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11-01-2020, 06:25 AM | #15 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
U-boat crewmen probably had the highest loss rate, at 75%.
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11-01-2020, 08:22 AM | #16 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Soviet penal battalion soldier? Probably not a great prospect for survival.
Outside that, I'd second the Japanese infantryman - life was bad when you were winning, once the winning stopped I'm amazed they could bear it. |
11-01-2020, 09:50 AM | #17 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Japnese tank guys didn't generate the same mass of misery as the infantry but their vehicles were small, underarmored, underarmed and given nicknames that translated as "Honorable One-Shot Lighter".
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11-01-2020, 10:09 AM | #18 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Sven Hassel was meant to have been in a German Penal Battalion and he survived so did two others I believe if the story is true.
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11-01-2020, 10:11 AM | #19 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
SOE spy working in france?
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11-01-2020, 10:13 AM | #20 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
Sven Hassel was a member of the Hilfspolizei in Denmark and spent no time on the Eastern Front. His novels are good pulp war story, but they're not real history.
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